Election 2012

I thought I might open a thread for people's thoughts on last night's election.  I was tuning in and out throughout the night as I'm sure many others were, although the vote in Texas wasn't all that exciting.

I was interested in the record number of women elected into the senate - and Senator Elizabeth Warren from MA will be interesting to follow.

I heard that people were already tweeting about Hillary 2016, but now I'm wondering about Warren 2016.

Last night, I also heard one state legalized marijuana for the first time and the first openly gay senator was elected.

It was also the first "Twitter" election and apparently a tweet of the victory hug between Barack and Michelle Obama knocked Justin Beiber off the top tweet spot!

Any other interesting tidbits people picked up?

Comments

[Stephanie Farrior]

To see the tweet photo of the victory hug --
http://www.intlawgrrls.com/2012/11/nuff-said_7.html

[Anon]

Here in Iowa, the Supreme Court justices who had supported same-sex marriage were targeted by anti-gay activists. The one justice up for retention this year, Justice David Wiggins, who voted for same sex marriage legality in 2009, did win his retention vote.