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Election Day in pictures

A slideshow of the Dems' big night

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Election Day in picturesPresident Barack Obama , joined by his wife Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden and his spouse Jill acknowledge applause after Obama delivered his victory speech to supporters gathered in Chicago early Wednesday Nov. 7 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)(Credit: AP)

Election Day in pictures

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  • Most media outlets began their coverage early. Above, the set of "Morning Joe," taken by Democratic Convention Deputy Press Secretary Eric Ortega. (Twitter via @EricOntheHill)

  • Chrysler gave its 55,000 employees the day off to vote, as executive Ralph Gilles tweeted. (Twitter via @RalphGilles)

  • Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan continued campaigning on Election Day and made an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's in Ohio. AP/Charles Dharapak

  • Above, a meme-like image of President Obama, who took Election Day off to play basketball. His team won. (Twitter via @ebla614)

  • Vice President Joe Biden cast his vote at a polling site in Delaware. President Barack Obama voted early, the first incumbent president to do so. (Twitter via @JoeBiden)

  • ABC anchor Diane Sawyer became an unintentional highlight of last night's election coverage.

  • The Empire State Building is lit up in red, white and blue. (Twitter via @davesurber)

  • Arizona Democrats celebrate as President Barack Obama is declared the winner of the presidential race at a Democratic Party gathering, in Tucson, Ariz. AP/Ross D. Franklin

  • The president's campaign staff account tweeted this picture to its Twitter followers with the caption, "Four more years." (Twitter via @BarackObama)

  • President Barack Obama, joined by his wife, Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden and his spouse, Jill, acknowledge applause after Obama delivered his victory speech. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

  • Mitt Romney, arrives at his concession speech. (AP/Rick Wilking, Pool)

  • An image that continues the theme of Shepard Fairey's iconic "Hope" poster. (Twitter via @9gagtweets)

  • The front page of the Washington Post this morning. (Twitter via @theFix)

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Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. More Prachi Gupta.

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  • 10. "The Guardians" by Sarah Manguso: "Though Sarah Manguso’s 'The Guardians' is specifically about losing a dear friend to suicide, she pries open her intelligent heart to describe our strange, sad modern lives. I think about the small resonating moments of Manguso’s narrative every day." -- M. Rebekah Otto, The Rumpus

  • 9. "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter: "'Beautiful Ruins' leads my list because it's set on the coast of Italy in 1962 and Richard Burton makes an entirely convincing cameo appearance. What more could you want?" -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air"

  • 8. "Arcadia" by Lauren Groff: "'Arcadia' captures our painful nostalgia for an idyllic past we never really had." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post

  • 7. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn: "When a young wife disappears on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, her husband becomes the automatic suspect in this compulsively readable thriller, which is as rich with sardonic humor and social satire as it is unexpected plot twists." -- Marjorie Kehe, Christian Science Monitor

  • 6. "How Should a Person Be" by Sheila Heti: "There was a reason this book was so talked about, and it’s because Heti has tapped into something great." -- Jason Diamond, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

  • 4. TIE "NW" by Zadie Smith and "Far From the Tree" by Andrew Solomon: "Zadie Smith’s 'NW' is going to enter the canon for the sheer audacity of the book’s project." -- Roxane Gay, New York Times "'Far From the Tree' by Andrew Solomon is, to my mind, a life-changing book, one that's capable of overturning long-standing ideas of identity, family and love." -- Laura Miller, Salon

  • 3. "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain: "'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' says a lot about where we are today," says Marjorie Kehe of the Christian Science Monitor. "Pretty much the whole point of that novel," adds Time's Lev Grossman.

  • 2. "Bring Up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel: "Even more accomplished than the preceding novel in this sequence, 'Wolf Hall,' Mantel's new installment in the fictionalized life of Thomas Cromwell -- master secretary and chief fixer to Henry VIII -- is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do." -- Laura Miller, Salon

  • 1. "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo: "Like the most remarkable literary nonfiction, it reads with the bite of a novel and opens up a corner of the world that most of us know absolutely nothing about. It stuck with me all year." -- Eric Banks, president of the National Book Critics Circle

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