My electoral college prediction wasn’t so exact after all. I didn’t count on one of Nebraska’s congressional districts slenderly going for Obama. Nebraska and Maine are the only states that split their electoral votes, and now it’s happened for the first time. So one more vote goes into the blue column.

Final tally: Obama 365, McCain 173. I was off by ONE. ARGH!

I also might have spoken too soon regarding Alaska, where Mark Begich may end up in the Senate after all, pending either a recount or a special election or whatever the hell is going on up there.

I won’t try to predict what the next four years of President Obama will look like, but I do know what I wish for: sheer boredom. I SO want smart, serious, competent grown-ups in charge. I want every news source from the front page to Daily Kos to be so chock full of policy proposals that they read like academic journals and my eyes glaze over. After eight years of terrorism, war, torture, secret prisons, floods, spying, graft, debt, and economic ruin, I think we’re all due for a some reassuring dullness.

I think I can predict one thing, though: the crazier elements on the right now believe that a Secret Socialist Muslim Arab Terrorist just stole the election via ACORN voter fraud.* If you thought they were paranoid in the 90s with their conspiracy theories accusing the Clintons of drug dealing, rape, and murder, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Expect the return of the Michigan Militia, at the very least. Black helicopters ahoy!

* Although after hyperventilating over non-existent voter fraud for weeks, Fox/Dobbs/etc have strangely abandoned it post-election. Either they figured out that registering Mickey Mouse doesn’t mean Mickey will show up to vote, or they saw the final tallies matched the polls…