Update 11/8/12: Washington State also passed gay marriage!
After winning last night's election, The United States President's twitter account,
@BarackObama, tweeted this picture at 8:16 p.m. Since then it has been retweeted 673,311 times and counting. The President's tweet has been favorited 229,696 times and counting.
These numbers, which are still going up every time I refresh the page, make it the most popular tweet ever. Apparently a few people like this guy #gobama..............
Now if the Republicans and the Democrats work together, we can truly make progress.
In other 2012 Election news,
the U.S. Senate had a record number of women elected to office. True women are still underrepresented in the U.S. government, but this is a huge step in the direction of fairness and equality.
And for the first time, in Maryland and Maine, voters have cast their votes in support of gay marriage.
In California, voters
passed Governor Jerry Browns Prop 30 tax initiative that adds more than $6 billion to the public education budget.
Now there's progress! But we still have a long way to go. Let's do this!
