He'll always have Wyoming

Elias: Hold it....just a moment, let me savor....yesss!!!

ROMNEY IS DEFEATED!!!! Oh watching Willard grin humorlessly and grind his jaw like an orangutang tonight was precious and lovely to behold. Those beady little eyes of his were sodden with repressed rage and hatred...you could tell he was totalling up in his mind ever dollar he'd flung at New Hampshire only to lose to an aging senate blowhard who was billed below the trained birds and the cheap acts not ninety days ago. ...

Lucy Starr: Not that I'm a huge McCain fan, but it's very nice to see Mitt Romney lose:

I would love it if Romney got his ass kicked all the way back to wherever the hell he came from before he came to Massachusetts and fucked this place up.

George N. Parks: Women voters triumph.

BostonMaggie: She just won't go away.

John Daley: So much for the polls.

Susan H: Most important lesson: never run as an incumbent when you aren't one.

Jay Fitzgerald: Maybe it was the tears. Maybe it was the machine:

... Maybe it was the Bradley effect. But it's pretty clear women went big for Hillary -- and Obama didn't have a similar built-in constituency in New Hampshire to offset it. ...

Mike Ball: She was the drunk pitching face forward, but she grabbed a stool and is upright again.

Ed Deevy: I believe that the most likely explanation between the poll predictions and the outcome has to do with latent racism.

The Outraged Liberal would disagree:

... There will be two automatic guesses to how things apparently changed so fast: "The Tear Up" and the "Voters Aren't Honest About Black Candidates" canard.

Academics may well spend the next few years parsing Hillary Clinton letting down her guard momentarily and speaking from the heart and not the program manual. That split second offered a glimpse into what Clinton supporters have long insisted is a warm, witty and shy woman. ...

Says Bomb: Isn't it more likely that what moved people was disgust at the media's hyperattention to that moment?

Dan Kennedy might agree:

... The gender card was not played so much by Clinton as by her enemies, especially among the media commentariat. I was struck by something Robin Young said on WBUR (90.9 FM) this morning. During the last few days of the campaign, she said, it seemed as though the media were really piling on, gleefully predicting Clinton's demise and all but calling her a "bitch." (Young didn't actually use the word.)

The result may have been that women in New Hampshire were offended enough to cast their votes for Clinton, whereas in Iowa they largely supported Obama. ...

Speaking of Obama, ChezNiki sees a new day dawning:

There are people still alive now
Who were alive
When women could not vote, by law
There are even more people alive
Who were alive when the law permitted Blacks to vote
But saw many Blacks being prevented from voting by water hosings, beatings, incarceration, intimidation, or all of the above
So to have a white woman and a Black man running for President and coming in one and two?
In Iowa and New Hampshire of all places? This is a message, a sign from God, "Game Over!" ...

And as a former New Yorker, she knows there's more to Giuliani than just 9/11:

[A]mongst Black New York, Giuliani is known for September 16, 1992 when he led a mob of police to City Hall Plaza carrying signs and shouting racial epithets against then-Mayor Dinkins, during police contract negotiations. Dinkins was also lobbying for a stronger civilian review board at the time. Looked like something out of Birth of a Nation. He shouldnt be President of the Block Association, let alone the United States. ...

Teddy Kokoros noticed the similarity between Obama's speech and Deval Patrick's whole "together we can" shtik from last year.

Ten Good Minutes catalogs the chants at each candidate's election-night parties:

If you thought the term "change" had become senseless, the mindless chanting of the brainless wonders that are the folks at the candidate campaign headquarters has been top notch tonight. ...