Daily News Features First Couple-Elect in Election Extra

2pac probably wishes he stayed out of trouble and lived to see this day in human form.

I can't wait for the Newsweek special campaign edition that's coming out tomorrow. Here are a few choice bits:

-- McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

-- The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.

-- On the Sunday night before the last debate, McCain's core group of advisers--Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, adman Fred Davis, strategist Greg Strimple, pollster Bill McInturff and strategy director Sarah Simmons -- met to decide whether or not to tell McCain that the race was effectively over, that he no longer had a chance to win. The consensus in the room was no, not yet, not while he still had "a pulse."

-- Obama was never inclined to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, not so much because she had been his sometime bitter rival on the campaign trail, but because of her husband. Still, as Hillary's name came up in veep discussions, and Obama's advisers gave all the reasons why she should be kept off the ticket, Obama would stop and ask, "Are we sure?" He needed to be convinced one more time that the Clintons would do more harm than good. McCain, on the other hand, was relieved to face Biden as the veep choice, and not Hillary Clinton, whom the McCain camp had truly feared.

There are times when her expressions remind me of Condi Rice, especially her eyebrows. Scary.

Let's just hope this new Camelot doesn't end like the other two did.

Oh no, now we are going to have to hear the black Camelot reference for the next 4 years.

Doesn't she look like she is either going to spit or puke?

Everybody's reacting to Michelle's complexity just like they reacted to Hillary's 16 years ago. So the First Lady should be an inflatable doll? Barack didn't accomplish this feat in a vacuum. Michelle played a role and will unfold as First Ladies always do. And she might start by redecorating some tired old tropes.

I just don't get the buying the newspaper and saving it thing...