"My Thoughts on the 2012 Election"

So I needed to take several days off after the election to recuperate (election withdrawal).   I have been on overdrive for the last eight months, but I'm back!

So, the president handily won the election on Tuesday evening. This wasn't a surprise to me.  I knew that when the rubber met the road, the American people would look at what the two candidates stood for, and make the right decision.  Good always wins out.  President Obama ran a clean campaign.  On the other hand, Mitt Romney lied, cheated, and he and his party tried to steal the election in more ways than one.   It is my belief that in the end, what sunk Mitt Romney was that he was not interested in the welfare of the American people, but more interested in his desire to be president, perhaps a desire to "settle" his father's loss in his bid for president in the 1968 election.

Barack Obama had a top-notch team that had an awesome ground game, stayed on message and stuck to their strategy, as they did in 2008.  The Romney campaign was made up of a mishmash of characters, mostly personal friends of the candidate, who had no idea how to run a campaign, and who, in the end, were totally devastated by the results because of their belief that people would not come out and again, vote for a black president.  The fact that the Romney campaign had no clue that they were losing a week before the campaign is telling...  Shall we call it "white privilege"?

Not only was Election Day a good day for the president, it was a good day for Democrats and liberals in general.  We now have 20 women in the senate, we picked up House seats, four states passed same-sex marriage, and two states passed recreational marijuana laws.

My take on the election is that Republicans thought that people were just going to come out and vote for their presidential candidate "just because".  What the election proved was that the first election of Barack Obama was not a fluke...that people see him as someone who has this country's best interests at heart, and that he is moving the country forward, and in the right direction.  More important, it was a rejection of Mitt Romney, his dishonesty, and the antiquated views of his party.

While Congress is a little more Democratic after this election, the dynamic of the last four years remains the same, and the president will still face an uphill battle in his efforts to work with both bodies.  The American people will not put up with another four years of Republicans and their obstructionism.  The election in 2014 is only 24 months away, and Republicans who continue to wreak havoc in Congress (oust Mitch McConnell) risk losing their Congressional seats.  The bottom line is that the American people placed their faith in Barack Obama, and he is STILL the Commander-in-Chief.

The biggest lesson in this election was that when there is a concerted effort to suppress the vote of a certain group of people, they will rise up!  African-Americans in Ohio did just that and won this election for Barack Obama. America...the people have spoken!  GOP...wake up...the world is a changin'.