At 52nd and Pine Sts. in West Philly (about 8 blocks from my house) there has been an Obama field office busy with volunteers for nearly two years. At roughly 11:02 p.m. - following the official announcement that Barack Obama had won the presidential race - the place erupted into the streets. For a clear mile you could see/hear/feel relief, celebration, thank you Jesuses, YES WE CAN's, O-Bam-A's!, pots and pans, honking cars, fireworks and noisemakers of all kinds.
At 11:03, too excited to fall back to sleep, I left the house in my pajamas (Pajamas for Obama!) to experience it firsthand.
...the raw video that I shot from my dashboard while driving alongside the paraders.
second, from another section of the US that probably fell into Palin's supposedly "anti-amercian parts of america", St. Marks & Ave. A, NYC:
and then the east village:
There were people all over the streets of NYC, but Brooklyn was the place to be:
Election Night, NYC from Scott Lamb on Vimeo.
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