Congrats to Obama and his friends. I know I’m pumped.  SomethingAwful supplies the appropriate picture:

C. Wright Mills helps me commemorate my feelings at this moment:

"The gap between speaker and listener, between power and public, leads less to any iron law of oligarchy than to the law of spokesmanship: as the pressure group expands, its leaders come to organize the opinions they ‘represent.’ So elections, as we have seen, become contests between two giant and unwieldy parties, neither of which the individual can truly feel that he influences, and neither of which is capable of winning psychologically impressive or politically decisive majorities. And, in all this, the parties are of the same general form as other mass associations."  – The Power Elite (1956), p.309