I was up at 5am yesterday and worked until 8pm in the nonpartisan Election Protection command center at the ACLU of Nevada’s office, so by the time I realized that Obama had it in the bag, I was feeling rather delirious. It was a great day for American politics, only tempered by a lost wallet, now found, and lost rights in California, the recovery of which will be longer in the coming. Other post-election nuggets:

• All my hard work in Washoe County paid off, as Obama destroyed McCain in both the county and in Nevada as a whole. Alas, the local elections were more of a mixed bag given my preferences. (E.g., my state supreme court choice lost, and a really awful eminent domain initiative passed.)
• Bill Ayers gave his first interview since he became an election issue to the New Yorker , and he seems like a decent but flawed guy who was heavily caricatured.
• 2009 will be the first year in 45 years without a Dole or a Bush in elected office.
• The Marijuana Policy Project, my former employer, had a successful day winning both medical marijuana in Michigan and decriminalization in Massachusetts.
• Newsweek has an article reporting some campaign items that they couldn’t reveal until now: a “foreign entity” hacked into the systems of both campaigns, Palin may’ve spent more money than was even originally reported on herself and her family, and violent threats to Obama increased sharply in September and October at the same time when the Palin rallies were getting scary.

I wish I lived within driving distance to D.C. for January’s shindig.