The New York Times asked their readers to submit words that described their moods after the elections — and then tracked the top words throughout election day in an interactive “wordtrain.”

Here are two screenshots of what readers said after the 2008 election and how they’re feeling now.

For more:

2010: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/01/us/politics/2010-election-wordtrain.html
2008: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/04/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_WORDTRAIN.html