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    Triumph Of The Reality-Based Community Against The Forces Of Darth Rove And Emperor Adelson

    I’m really, really satisfied with the election results. Thank God for Nate Silver, or thank probabilities, anyway. He kept me sane all evening when the electoral count had Romney up until California and the rest of the West Coast reported in with a WHAM! BOO-YAH! and put the electoral total over 200 in the blue column. As almost every “battleground” state smoothly went blue except for North Carolina and stubborn Florida, it looked better and better still. First, remember Rove famously dismissed reality as not really fitting in with his plans: Back in the days of the Bush Administration, the…