I agree with John Cassidy: A Victory for Obama and for Obama’s America

[daveman]

Well we have four more years of that inept fuck in the WH.

Lets just see what he does.

Any bets on how long it will take the economy and UE to recover??

Remember he doesn't need your vote anymore. He's now set for life at our expense.

Hope everyone has their wallet ready because Obamacare kicks in in 2014.

At least 8 years.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I agree with John Cassidy: A Victory for Obama and for Obama’s America

Cassidy as well as Nate were right on. What I especially like about Cassidy is he lays out what he thinks and the why. He laid out how to got to where he was. It was great watching progressives and conservatives get many of it all wrong and for the wrong reasons.

here's the man on the election and what it means...

November 7, 2012
A Victory for Obama and for Obama’s America
Posted by John Cassidy

Even Karl Rove could only delay the inevitable for so long. At about 11:30 P.M., shortly after all the networks had called Ohio and, with it, the entire election for President Obama, the man George W. Bush used to call Turd Blossom objected, live on the air, to the Fox News decision to go along with the crowd. It was a rare public spat in the Fox/G.O.P. alliance, and, evidently, somebody in Boston was listening. Citing the possibility of a last-minute turnaround in Ohio, the Romney campaign refused for another hour or so to concede it was all over.
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With Obama on his way to the McCormick Place convention center in downtown Chicago to greet his supporters, the talking heads were already vying to predict what would happen next: two more years of Washington deadlock; a civil war inside the Republican Party as the long-muzzled moderates finally take on the likes of Sarah Palin and Grover Norquist; a reinvigorated President ready to reach across the party divide; a boom in the Colorado tourism industry as potheads the world over flock to the Rockies to get high. (A ballot initiative there to legalize marijuana passed by fifty-three per cent to forty-seven per cent.)

Hang on a minute, y’all. Who knows what the future holds? For now, let’s take the measure of what has happened, which is historic enough. For the fifth time in the past six Presidential elections, the Democrats have won the popular vote. For the second time in succession, Americans have elected a black man as President. Throughout the country, Republican extremists like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock have been repudiated. Residents of Maryland and Maine (and probably Washington state, too) have voted in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage. The United States of 2012 hasn’t turned into Scandinavia, but it isn’t the United States of 2010 and the Tea Party either. To the extent that the election was about anything more than negative advertising and relentless micro-targeting, it was a triumph of moderation over extremism, tolerance over intolerance, and the polyglot future over the monochrome past.
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The exit polls largely told the story. In the nineteen-to-twenty-nine age group...

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