Done

West Wing Did It First. A very junior member of congress, a minority, a death, a moderate republican who must pick a staunch conservative whacko for VP (who decides to run for pres 4 years later), etc etc...

Also, looks like Alabama's Black Belt went to Obama- which is something I figured.

Happy. Anxious. Really want to talk to me-in-4-years to compare notes and see if some of the things I suspect about Obama's re-election are true. (knowing me I'll have forgotten all this stuff by then, and I don't feel like writing it down).

By the by: Howard Dean = Genius; and it's unsurprising to those of us who watched him with interest 4 years ago.