The California Bombshell

I've been sitting in the classroom here at Whitireia all afternoon looking at the election map on cnn.com and watching the US election unfold. When I first started looking, only 4% of precincts were reporting, and nothing particularly interesting was happening. All of the ten or so States declared won were the same as they had been at the last election. I have watched as 1, 2, 3 and then 4 States swung democrat, one of them being the Swing State Ohio.

Just now, I heard cheering coming from down the road, perhaps from one of the Irish pubs. I refreshed the page . . . and the West coast states were declared. Obama, 297 electoral votes and counting.

I don't know much about the American voting system, but I think that means the Americans have their new President.