From an absentee voter:

I already voted absentee because I’m out of state this week (someplace warm) and I actually wish I was home to see this! How crazy it that? It’s 75 degrees here, its snowing at home, and I’d rather be there. I feel like I’m missing something very historic. Like being a Berliner who was out of town when the wall came down.
In terms of sports analogies, a better one is the 1980 Olympic Hockey team. Beating the Democrats in Mass. is akin to beating the Russians. Nobody gave them any chance of winning. Even when the US team hung with the Russians early in the game, everyone assumed they would fade. When the game was tied late, everyone just KNEW the Russians would put it away. And even when the US team scored the go ahead goal, the feeling was that, with 10 minutes to play, the US just couldn’t hold off the Russians.
It wasn’t until Al Micheals counted down the final seconds that everyone thought “This is really going to happen.”