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[Ya-ta Boy]

If you add the women and ethnic minorities together, they make up more than half the Democratic House delegation.

New Hampshire has an entirely female Congressional delegation and a Democratic governor.

Colorado and Washington State have legalized weed.

Maine, Maryland, and Washington State have adopted gay marriage. Minnesota has rejected an amendment banning it. Nine states have legalized same-sex marriage now.

California has given super-majorities in both houses to the Democrats, allowing them for the first time since 1978 to deal with the radical anti-tax amendment.

Latinos and Asians have finally made their voice heard in decisive numbers and it is not in favor of the GOP.

LBJ famously said that he was handing the South to the GOP when he signed the Voting Rights Bill for a generation in '64. Is that generation now passed (in terms of decisive political power)? Is America's long night of racist nightmare over, taking with it its ally Trickle-Down-Laffer-Curve- Supply-Side Reaganism?

Did the stake driven through the heart of Reaganism turn out to be a trans-vaginal probe? (Ick!)

Did Bruce Springsteen's blue-collar cred (and union ground work) deliver Ohio to Obama?

Is conservatism now a dirty word, denoting antiquated attitudes to birth control, rape and women's reproductive rights, xenophobia, inequality, foreign policy incompetence, voter suppression, individualism-gone-insane, anti-science in biology and climate science?

It does look like it. In the Elections of 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, and 2012, Democrats have won pluralities or majorities. Only in 2004 has the GOP won--and that was probably only because of the dubious victory of '00. This has not been as decisive a victory as 1980 or 1932, not yet. But each year, more white male bigots die off and another year's cohort of young more liberal kids join the electorate. Even the young evangelicals voted more liberally than their parents.

Ah me. I remember January 20, 1969. I was in Berkeley and feeling pretty down. Nixon was at his inaugural and I couldn't imagine the future of my country dominated by bigots. I was a sophomore in college and I shuddered at the thought of the next chunk of my life under his administration. I felt even worse on Jan. 20, 1981 when Reagan was elected. (I remembered him standing on that balcony in Berkeley giving the finger to the students who wanted some classes about their ethnic heritage; but even more, I remembered those squadrons of cops with their billy clubs marching toward us...and being trapped in that alley off Telegraph with the cops trying to catch us up against that wooden fence.) I remember January 20, 1984 and how bad I felt because the economy recovered enough from the mess we were in just before and knowing with a sinking heart that the improvement meant he would be re-elected.

But the Republic survived the lies Nixon told about Vietnam; the Republic survived Watergate; the Republic survived Iran-Contra; the Republic has survived Afghanistan/Iraq.

I do sympathize with conservatives. I really do. I had to wait 44 years for the Republic to recover it's trajectory into the future. It's been a long slow slog. Along about (2012 + 44 = 2052) 2052 (give or take) you will get to feel the same sense of vindication I feel now.

Happy waiting!

[Rteacher]

What about the anti-liberal coalition that seems hell-bent on cutting ties with the federal government? Then again, it might be better if Texas et al actually did secede... http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/11/13/secession_texas_and_33_other_states_prepare_petitions_to_secede.html

[Unposter]

I'd say those silly seccession petitions are perfect example that there is a liberal governing coalition in place; otherwise far-right conservatives wouldn't want to leave the union.

Personally, I see this as the not-surprising outcome of the Republican's rhetoric of how Obama will ruin the country. Gov. Perry now is distancing himself from these not-so-mainstream people and it shows that Gov. Perry is smarter than he looked during the Republican primaries.

Republicans need to sober-up and look at the mob they are leading and ask themselves if this is what they want the U.S. to look like? I don't think they do.

It is time for responsible government not anti-government. To me, that is what the electorate asked for. For example, a government that could respond to huricanes. That is what the electorate wanted - responsible government - not "wacky."

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[Leon]

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[Leon]

[Steelrails]

A government andthat is in the pocket of Wall Street, engages in drone warfare, continues to have provisions from the Patriot Act, Gitmo, War in Afghanistan, War on Drugs, and so on and so on is hardly one people that I would call liberal.

However a coalition that thinks because they can have abortions, gay marriage, and a weak government health plan that somehow they've achieved some sort of liberal consensus and beaten "the man" is a coalition I would call moronic.

Congratulations! Gay's can marry and abortion is available. Oh the elites are quaking in their boots!

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