Congratulations Newt!

As the returns are counted you'll sit on your wife's knee, taking care not to touch her skin with yours.  As an amphibian, your skin is a mucus membrane, and contact with your wife's relatively oily skin, even passing contact with a relatively dry area like a knee or an elbow, can be incredibly painful for you.  That's why she'll be wearing gloves as she strokes under your chin, making soothing overtures in an attempt to calm your nerves.  It won't help, but you'll appreciate the effort, so much so that you'll place your newty hand on her thigh, just below her skirt, and pat her there twice, not bothering to wipe your hand off afterwards, relishing the pain as you smile up at her and say:

"Whatever happens, we did our best."

She'll beam back down at you.

It'll have been a long, rocky road of a campaign, fraught with scandal ("Adorable Politician Can't Touch Wife: Is He Actually a Gay Lizard?"), bold rhetoric in favor of reform ("Clean Water and Air are a Must or I Will Actually Die Within the Next Year"), and civil rights victories ("There's No Law That Says an Amphibian Can't Run for Governor").  The fact that you, a tiny amphibian, are even here, sitting on the knee of a human woman, to whom you are married, while awaiting electoral returns from a gubernatorial race, is quite an achievement.  And your campaign slogan, "Definitely Not That Newt: A Fresh Face in Politics Who Isn't a Fat Asshole Who Abandons His Wives," had a lot of traction.  While the whole experience was harrowing, it brought you and your wife closer together, which is good, because the two of you literally cannot be together physically.

So when you fall asleep on your wife's knee, using a pair of wadded cotton balls as a pillow, exhausted from watching returns come back in with razor thin, recount worthy margins, take solace in two facts: that you ran a good race with a good message and that you are, in about a week and a half, going to be declared the contested winner of this electoral competition.  No mean feat, all things considered.  Use your time in office well.

Congratulations Newt!