Above: Barack Obama and members of his family watch John McCain concede the election on Tuesday night. From the Obama campaign's extraordinary behind-the-scenes Flickr photoset. He'll give his first press conference in his new role today, then spend the weekend in Chicago with no news announcements, "so he and his staff can get some rest after a grueling campaign."
The six chapters so far of Newsweek's insanely detailed, highly compelling behind-the-scenes account of the presidential race are here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Here's a fun article about reporting the project. [Newsweek]
The president-elect has a new website. Among the sweetest privileges of power: the ".gov" top-level domain. [Change.gov]
Obama's victory is already changing the landscape in Iraq. "Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward a new security agreement about American troops, and a Bush administration official said he believed that Iraqis could ratify the agreement as early as the middle of this month..." But will Obama be able to keep his campaign promises? [New York Times]
San Franciscans demonstrate against California's new ban on gay marriage. Can the thousands of existing marriages it imperils be saved? Andrew Sullivan: "I'm happy to say that Proposition 2 passed, providing minimal humane protections for pigs, chickens and other farm animals. How odd for people to restrict cruelty for animals and simultaneously inflict it on some humans."
John McCain had an opportunity to transcend the Republican brand. Instead, he played to the Republican base. Many of his old fans remain mystified. [Wall Street Journal]
Did you have sex after Obama's victory? The Chicago Tribune asks the questions that matter. [Chicago Tribune]
Obama campaign staffers on the moments they'll remember most, apart from that night they spent faking his birth certificate at Bill Ayers's kitchen table, which obviously they've conveniently forgotten about. [Swampland]
America's political cartoonists all have the same thought at once, about Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. [Gawker]
Antigua wants to rename its highest mountain after Sarah Palin. No, wait: after Barack Obama. Well, it is called Boggy Peak at the moment, so either would be an improvement. [Washington Times]
From the "uh, thanks, I guess" department: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad congratulates Obama. [Washington Post]
Remember that North Carolina county that Sarah Palin called "the real America"? Like North Carolina as a whole, it voted for Obama. [Talking Points Memo]
The wrongest predictions of the election campaign. [Salon]
