What Happened

Amazing chart showing performance of each candidate at a glance

The scary new brand of Religious Right Republicans that was conceived in the 80s has come to maturity and reared its ugly head. Thank goodness no "Reagan Republicans" ran this race and they had to resort to wild attacks.

Barack Obama pulled off a landslide because WE THE PEOPLE spoke loud and clear that it is time to end the divisiveness and come together as a country; time to asking not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country!

We have a huge job ahead to restore America's standing in the world community but thank goodness we made a strong statement to the rest of the world that we are not John McCain or Sarah Palin's brand of America!

We are stong & brave. We are tolerant & compassionate.
We are ethical & take the high road.

Walt Whitman said, in 1884:

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,

'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,

Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:

This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating - America's choosing day...