From the AC360 Blog and without its permission:
Gary Tuchman
AC360° Correspondent
What a juxtaposition! I’m in an Anchorage, Alaska restaurant where the McCain-Palin viewing party is taking place. Sarah Palin’s lieutenant governor is here (the man who would have taken her place as governor if she won); so are other Republican officials.
At the moment the big screen TV projection was made by CNN of Barack Obama winning the race, there was silence; a certain and palpable sense of awe at the historic nature of the moment. But it lasted for a very short time. People began to ignore the TV; a GOP official spoke to the hundreds in the restaurant about the great job that all the Republican staffers and volunteers did in Alaska. And life went on.
Interesting. And I have a sick feeling about other reactions in more southern parts of the stage...
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