I think for most of my friends, Barack Obama losing the 08 Presidential election would have been a tragedy too profound to even imagine. So when he won there wasn’t so much surprise, but rather relief.

And then excitement. And then excitement blocking traffic. And then a parade. Through the streets of downtown Seattle. Check out the sweet sequence of events:

Victory party in the Showbox at The Market.

The Showbox begins to empty out, and Barack supporters begin to fill the sidewalk.

The crowd swells, overflowing the sidewalk and sprawling into 1st Ave.

The parade begins pretty much spontaneously with thousands of people marching through downtown. The police responded incredibly quickly, baricading and rerouting traffic ahead of our path.

The march ended in Capitol Hill, where we filled an intersection and chanted and sang and toasted and so on.

Similar gatherings were occuring elsewhere in the city, this one had a brass band leading the crowd in song.

Hooray Barack!

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