Brown wins! Dow up 116!

Wow.

Okay, that’s enough wonder and celebration now. Enough slack-jawed awe at the historic nature and sheer political BAM! of it all.

Get your ass on a plane now, Senator-elect Brown, and get to D.C. and get sworn in.

And while we’re on the subject: the AP story I saw on Yahoo – the first place I saw the news – didn’t tell us the final vote tally until the 6th paragraph. Fox News had it in the third paragraph.

I dunno. Just seems like that’s an important bit of information. A nice little piece of fact that ought to be in the lede. Maybe I’m wrong.

It was 52-47, in case you were wondering. And, yes, I know: I waited until the 6th paragraph to tell you.

I’m still better than MSNBC. Their story never tells us the final score. Now, see, right up front you wonder if that isn’t some sort of bias at work. But the vote was only 52-47. Decisive, but hardly a blowout. If you wanted to be biased, you could say that he underperformed compared to some recent polls.

On the other hand, MSNBC did include this fun little fact:

Wall Street watched the election closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care.

Can’t wait to see what the Dow does tomorrow.

Via Memeorandum, where I doubt there will be much else other than this for at least the next 18 hours.