From Britain’s Guardian, a collection of newspaper front pages from around the world:

Sean Quinn of FiveThrityEight.com sums up what a lot of us are feeling today:

I’ll be honest, it’s a little hard to write today. I suspect a lot of you may be feeling the same complex set of emotions at the end of a political season so seismic that most of us will remember it as long as we live. We will tell our children and grandchildren what we saw and felt.

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We suspect we’re not alone. Right now, organizers, full-time volunteers, campaign staff, and everyone else who gave single-minded effort toward November 4 are waking up and saying to themselves and each other, “what do I do with myself?” Their cars are messes, their rooms disaster zones, and they’ve been cut off from friends and family for God knows how long.

This was by far the longest and biggest election season in US history, and there is so much left to process. The elation that Democrats feel is mixed with the hangover of carrying so much emotional electricity in the body for so long. Its discharge is necessarily going to leave an exhaustion behind.

We feel it too. There will be moments in the coming days, randomly standing in line at the grocery store, driving down the street in contemplation, the sight of a door you knocked, catching a certain song, a glimpse of Chuck Todd, hearing someone tell a story… where these emotions will just come bursting through, the enormity of it all. Just think of how much effort went into this. How much sacrifice. How many things had to go right. How many people had to want it so badly, and how the masterpiece of a campaign structure that David Plouffe and cohorts engineered allowed all that effort to be channeled into the right places to maximize efficiency.

An email to Obama supporters:

Matthew –

I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don’t want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign — every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it’s time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I’ll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing…

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

Obama wins the Presidency of the United States of America!

Free music and hot dogs for Obama supporters! Is this a sign of things to come?

Supporters and campaign workers for Sen. Barack Obama are being invited to Heinz Field tomorrow night for a free Get Out The Vote concert featuring local artists Rusted Root.

An Obama campaign spokeswoman said the pep rally, which is intended to build steam for the final weekend of the presidential campaign, is scheduled for 8 to 10 p.m. and will feature free hot dogs.

Funny stuff from Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV:

Next Monday, the Pittsburgh Steelers will try to beat the Washington Redskins on the road and hold onto a one-game lead in the AFC North Division — but that’s far from the most important thing at stake.

The result of the Redskins’ final home game before Election Day has accurately predicted the winner in 17 of the past 18 presidential elections.

If the Redskins win, the incumbent political party stays in the White House. But if they lose, the incumbent party is voted out.

So, rooting for the Steelers next week will be like rooting for Obama. I’m sure that this twofer is something that a lot of Steelers Nation will cheer about.

From Ambinder, the latest Pew poll:

Pew’s Andy Kohut conducts one of the better national surveys out there, and his results today — even assuming that he caught McCain in a downdraft — are fairly stunning. Obama leads by 16 points among likely voters, by 17 points among independents, by 13 points among men, by 20 points among women, is tied among whites, and is up eight among white Catholics.   Of the 15 percent of the sample who’ve already voted, Obama leads by 19 points (although this subsample has a fairly large MoE).  74% of Obama’s backers say they support him “strongly,” which is 20 points higher than the percentage who say the same about their support for McCain.

What I’ve found is people here [in Pittsburgh] don’t care what color you are. What they’re trying to figure out is who can deliver. It’s just like the Pttisburgh Steelers: they don’t care what color you are, they just want to figure out, can you make the plays?

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama From on KDKA 10/27/08

Many, many people from both sides of the aisle I’ve talked to over the course of this campaign saw this coming. Likely the first of several:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.
In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.

From Obama’s campaign:

This Monday, October 27th, please join Barack Obama in Pittsburgh, where he will talk about his vision for creating the kind of change we need.

Change We Need Rally
with Barack Obama

Mellon Arena
66 Mario Lemieux Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Monday, October 27th
Doors Open: 3:00 p.m.

http://pa.barackobama.com/PittsburghChange

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required; however, an RSVP is strongly encouraged.

For security reasons, do not bring bags or umbrellas. Please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted.