I’m also in D.C. (I can see the Capitol from my window). A few smiles on Metro the morning after, but no chatter — happy or otherwise. I expected my office to be bursting with noise about it...I saw only two people who were excited...silence, otherwise. I’ve never seen a day-after-the-election as quiet as this one.
i park in the District building garage, i think many of them stayed home after being up late celebrating, so that might have been part of it. my husband took my daughter to the orthodontist in Falls Churcha after school yesterday. the receptionist we know to be a lib. i would have sat in the car to avoid her attempt to engage me about the election, he did not and she ended up provoking him into a diatribe. LOL! the waiting area and both orthodontists got an earful!! well she asked for it!
A friend who works at the Watergate relayed that the college kids from GW were hanging out at the mall and celebrating. But everyone over 35 seemed muted and sad.
Oh man, just wait for the coronation crowds who will be showing up in DC to jive and ululate on 20 January
And Eleanor Holmes Norton and the DC govt will be unleashed. “Pimp my Inauguration”
D.C. voted for Obama 93% - 7%
About the only place where you could ever find those kind of "tribal politics" is Utah, where they voted for Romney in the primaries by the same kind of numbers.
You know, I noticed the same thing in my DC office. My co-workers are probably 80% Dem, but no one was talking about it yesterday. The only person who brought it up was the homeless guy selling the Street Sense paper. Very strange.
It was very subdued in my office building and in the office yesterday too, and I know there are a lot of Barry supporters around here. I didn’t hear one person talking about the election. I found it strange too.