Gay marriage 'won' in 4 states. Pot in 2. The President is still black. The 'Pubs didn't gain control of the Senate, they didn't even gain seats, they lost them. 20 women in the U.S. Senate now.
The Sixties have won - the only thing that election lacked was a Grateful Dead concert. People need to get over it, and get on with it. People - as in "The People" (as in 'We the People") have chosen a direction, and we're still on it, and it does not look like we're going back, no matter how the South and Middle-west would like to. They will have to be content with Federalism and they are free to make their states as regressive as they like (though it's hard to imagine how much worse some of them could be.) But the rest of us are going to let woman make their own health decisions. That if you're not pregnant - then you don't have a say in the decision about what to do from that point. Climate Change is serious and steps need to be taken to mitigate some of the driving factors. We're going to try to join the other industrial powers and do something about health care. And Michelle is still the First Lady, and that's pretty cool all in itself.
Interesting to note.
Women, Blacks, Latinos and people under 30 massively rejected the Romney/conservative stuff by large margins. It's all old angry white guys supporting that stuff, and there are not that many left.
When you wonder how the 'rape candidate did' and you have to ask 'which one' - you're in trouble. BTW, they ALL lost.
Of the ten best educated states, all went for Obama, of the ten worst educated states, all but one went for Romney.
The 10 richest counties in the US, 8 went for Obama, 2 for Romney. He didn't even get the rich people's vote.
Of the 8 'Swing' states that Romney had to win, in order to win - he lost seven.
The Democrats have a solid lock on several states in New England, the Midwest and on the West Coast. (I didn't even have a Republican running for state office where I live). That gives the Democrats a near permanent advantage where they start with 240 electoral votes. It's going to be hard to run as a Republican, unless they radically change the direction of the party - and NO, it's NOT, more conservative - thought I think that's the way they are going to go first.
Oh yeah, Four presidents in the last century have won 50 percent of the vote twice: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan, and now Obama.
