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Election 2008: Scenes from the street celebration

Post by Phil on 11/5/2008 6:38am

A spontaneous street celebration broke out in downtown Madison last night, as thousands paraded and danced in the streets of Madison following Barack Obama's electoral victory. It is entirely possible that somewhere in the throng of ecstatic revelers, a sailor kissed a nurse. (Also, check out Critical Badger's contrast of 60s Madison versus today).

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Phil Ejercito

Contributing Writer

Phil Ejercito

Phil Ejercito is a freelance photojournalist based out of Madison, WI. His primary photographic interests include (but are by no means limited to) live music, politics and activism, environmental portraiture, and severe weather events.

More of his work can be found at philephotography.com.

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Now I'm even more bummed I had to go home and go to bed. Thanks for getting pictures of this so I can at least see what happened.

Is there an estimate of how many people were out there?

Me too.

However, the buzz on the Internet is massive nationwide Inauguration Day street parties.

No matter the temperatures, I will definitely be out dancing on that day!

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Oh, I'm totally in.

Hell f**kin' yeah. This time I'm going to put it on my calendar (not that Nov 4th wasn't, but I was busy grocery shopping for some odd reason... B-)

Love the pix, especially that flag guy. He's my hero.

I don't know if anyone ever really came out with a semi-official crowd count or anything, but my best guess would be around 8,000-10,000. 'Twas incredible, indeed.
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I was there, it was amazing. Best State Street mob ever, as well as one incredible reason to be celebrating.

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