I won’t miss a thing. It will be a great relief to be done with this election and get onto the jobs of fixing this great nation.

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I will miss the passion of the public dialogue, the sense of hope and possibility. I won’t miss the mean-spiritedness.

I don’t think I’ll miss anything but I would be deeply depressed if McCain won.

What I’ll miss most about this ENDLESS campaign is how utterly engaging and compelling it has been. The addiction to political news shows. Well, actually, what I will miss most is Tina Fey as Palin. That has definitely been a high point.

What I’ll miss most is the civic involvement. Granted, it’s been a noisy campaign season, starting with the crowded primaries and the tense faceoff between Obama and Hillary, and ending with the constant barrage of attack ads and phony accusations. But along the way, it’s been encouraging to watch people become involved in this election the way they have. Our country’s voter turnouts are usually embarrassing compared to those of other countries; but this year, all that seems to be changing. People truly care about reclaiming America after this disastrous eight-year presidency, and I’ve been inspired by that. Hopeful, even. What I won’t miss about the campaign is the constant stomachache. Sarah Palin alone has cost me about 500 bucks in Maalox.

The one thing I absolutely will not miss is the grating superiority and absolute smugness of Obama supporters who rule the chattering classes, most recently exemplified by James Spader and the writers of my favorite TV show, "Boston Legal," on Monday night. Spader even managed to remind the audience (many of whom, like me, tuned in for some light-hearted ENTERTAINMENT) that John McCain had been diagnosed with no less than four melanomas. In the end even the die-hard republican Denny Crane had "crossed over" leaving the beaming Spader to blot away tears. My favorite balcony scenes have now been ruined forever. Maybe after today, we can get back to realizing that this was an election, not a divine mission, and that Obama is a very talented novice who ran a smart campaign (against not very rousing opposition), and who will now (barring some seriously major upset) be president, a very, very difficult thing to be.

I will miss the spirit of "Yes We Can," all those young electric eyes, the young unpaid workers that joined from all over, seeing a well-structured campaign, seeing a married couple so happily in touch with each other, seeing so many people’s dreams and hopes unzipped, revealed and riding high. 

Let’s see who wins then I’ll tell you what I miss.