We decided to stay in the hotel and to watch election night at the huge LCD screens in our suite. We ordered roomservice, got us some extra drinks and deserts and settled for a long evening. We had Fox, ABC, NBC and CNN - together with the NYT, Hufington Post and Google News on our laptops. CNN turned out to be the best way to view the results. They even had holograms of reporters beamed in from Chicago. It was silent outside on the streets of Philadelphia... It seemed everyone was watching - until 09:30 when Pensylvania fell to Obama and the honking stared: IT WAS ALL OVER. It was fun to see the election night of the McCains in the Biltmore Hotel Phoenix (Where I spend New Year once zillion years ago) - the contrast with the Barack evenet in Chicago couldn't be bigger.
Oprah was in tears, as was Jessy Jackson and some other millions of Americans...
It was history in the making and I think that in years to come people will remember where they were the evening that Barack was elected President of the United States.
I followed Barack for more then 4 years and wrote endless amounts of posts about him - I am not sure what I can write about next :-))