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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 7th, Friday, the second day in America with the President-elect Barack Obama.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon in Washington. In the Slate

office is here to talk about this incredibly historic election. We're going to talk about three things.

What actually happened in the election. Okay, now what? With the Obama administration. And then

finally, the extraordinary backbiting in the GOP circles over the McCain campaign and particularly

Sarah Palin and her role in the

geographic universe.

Emily, your reaction. Welcome back, John. I know. We did such a great job on the road. It's great to have you back. It's great to have you, Emily, too. We're all here. It's awesome. You were great. It's awesome. Well, thank you. I missed everybody in the Gab Fest while I was out there. but there are lots of things

Now this is actually part of real America

Washington, D.C. is now

a fish now that there's in the Gab Fest while I was out there. But there are lots of things. Now this is actually part of real America.

Washington, D.C. is now part of the official. Now that there's a Democratic administration. Wasn't Washington, D.C., 94% for Obama. It was really amazing. It was. It meant you feel like everyone you see on the subway, every single person voted for Barack Obama. Well, let's run down the numbers real quick before I get your reactions because we don't want to lose the sweep of this moment in history, regardless of who you voted for. And one of the interesting things was a lot of the Republicans who said, you know, this was a competition. And even though our guy didn't win, it's an extraordinary moment in American history. So to acknowledge the historic nature of it isn't necessarily to be a partisan.

So, 52% of the vote went to Barack Obama.

349 electoral votes at the moment, North Carolina and Missouri are still up in the air.

This is all as of Thursday.

We got six new Democratic senators shy of the 60 mark they were looking for, but there are still questions about Minnesota and Alaska, Alaska and Georgia that might change that.

19 new members of the House that are Democrats. Six seats, I think, are still in contention. And 144, is that right, 133 million people voted, which is the largest number of people voting in 44 years.

That's the percentage of the largest percentage of registered voters.

Yes.

And the largest actual number ever, right?

Just because there are more people now.

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