As the old saying goes, the election isn't over until Rachel Maddow drops a nuclear truth-bomb on the losers.

Four years ago, Stranger staffer Renée Krulich was celebrating Barack Obama's victory with millions of others across the country when she suddenly received a "random text of excitement" from someone she didn't know.

Election night was a pretty hectic night for me, so I imagine it was at least doubly so for President Obama.

The moments after Fox News called Ohio — and thereafter the race — for President Obama will no doubt live in infamy.

As Diane Sawyer would say, "People around the world diiiiiiiiiiie—literally, die" for the right to vote. How do some Americans choose to wield this power so many have sacrificed their lives to obtain? By voting for Santa Claus. Or Mickey Mouse. Or a Korean-pop dance style that mimics a constipated jockey riding a horse.

Some newspapers both here and abroad went to bed too early to call the presidential election for President Obama.

With Newsweek going out of print in 2013, the question of which magazine will carry on the tradition of headline-grabbing covers must be asked.

Janice Daniels, the highly controversial mayor of Troy, Michigan, will not finish out her term after losing a recall vote by a measure of 52.2% to 47.8%.

The measure formally known as "County of Los Angeles Safer Sex In The Adult Film Industry Act" has officially passed with 56 percent of voters casting their ballots in favor of mandating condom use in porn films.

Brian Williams thinks Donald Trump has "driven well past the last exit to relevance." He thinks he is "irresponsible." Brian Williams was not amused by Donald Trump's unraveled tweeting.

New Hampshire added two women to its congressional delegation last night, electing Democrats Ann McLane Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter to represent the Granite State in the House.

Though they've been American citizens since 1917, residents of the island of Puerto Rico aren't currently allowed to vote in American elections.

Nothing is unfucked. It's the same good guy versus the same bad guys, with the same set of massive social and economic problems, and no evident way out. So congratulations, America, you won four years of vicious trench warfare.

Maine and Maryland made history tonight by becoming the first states to legalize same-sex marriage by popular votes.

Janna Ryan's husband Paul didn't get the big promotion he was after last night, and boy did it show on her face; she looked like the most miserable person in the world when she went up to hug Ann and Mitt on stage after Romney conceded the race. More »

It's true: President Obama has been reelected, winning both the electoral college and maybe the popular vote, and destroying the hopes of millions and millions of rabid conservative Americans in the span of a few hours. Over the next several days and years and months everyone is going to offer their complaints and arguments and suspicions about why Obama won and Mitt Romney lost. Many of those opinions will be wrong, and some of them will be right, but for now let's forget about them and celebrate.

After Fox News—like everyone else—called Ohio for Obama, Karl Rove challenged the decision on-air, causing what can only be described as a kernel panic. Fox News' decision desk, its institutional center of authority for making sound election calls, had issued its decision. And Fox News, in its capacity as a newsgathering operation, had called the election for Obama. But Karl Rove, Fox News' ideological paymaster, challenged the decision. So Megyn Kelly got out of her anchor chair, walked down the hall, and interrogated her own highly trained election analysts on Rove's behalf. You are actually watching what happens when reality intrudes on a dying fever-dream.

Toke 'em if you've got 'em: Mile High City NBC affiliate 9News has just announced that Colorado will pass Amendment 64, legalizing the recreational use and commercial sale of marijuana (up to 1 ounce) to residents over the age of 21.

While the talking heads over at Fox News would love to tell you that Romney's gonna come out on top in this election, their faces say otherwise. It's like they're all trying to hide a secret that everybody already knows.

Bad night to be an old white Republican man with a terrible understanding of science and rape: both Richard "Rape Pregnancies Are God's Gifts" Mourdock and Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin lost their races; Mourdock was defeated by Joe Donnelly in the Indiana Senate race, and Claire McCaskill easily beat Akin to retain her Missouri Senate spot.