[Alberta's Child]

No recriminations here. A liberal Republican lost to a Marxist Democrat. I'll go back to what I said at a meeting of my company's senior management a few months ago: This was one of the most inconsequential elections in recent memory (despite all the talk radio nonsense indicating otherwise), since neither candidate could spell out a clear plan for dealing with this country's massive structural flaws.

By my last count, Obama got 3 million fewer votes in 2012 than George W. Bush got in 2004. In fact, Obama's 2012 vote total was nearly identical to John Kerry's losing vote total in 2004 ... even though there are substantially more registered voters today.

Obama won narrow races in several key states. My quick review of the results last night indicates that North Carolina was the only state to change from one side to the other between 2008 and 2012. Like I said, this was not a very consequential election, and I suspect an awful lot of voters knew it a long time ago.

[Psalm 144]

Excellent summary. It will be ignored of course.

“A liberal Republican lost to a Marxist Democrat.”

That is just about it.