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, the same black man, as President.
Throughout the country, Republican extremists…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.
…it was a triumph of moderation over extremism, tolerance over intolerance, and the polyglot future over the monochrome past
Victory For Obama’s America (John Cassidy, New Yorker)
