It was not yet 11:30 last night, when it was announced Ohio had gone for Obama and the race was won. I am so relieved we did not have the agonizing challenges and recounts that would have cast doubt on any outcome.

I am watching the morning after-election analyses on Morning Joe and Scarborough is bemoaning the fact that if only Romney had done this … or that …, he would have won. I wrote on his Facebook page that he should be ecstatic that Romney failed because it proved that people were not swayed by the scurrilous ads paid for by Super Pacs. It was a vindication that a majority of the votes were not bought.

Women, gays, students, Hispanics, minorities, seniors, the poor, can all breathe a welcome sigh of relief -- it is after all, our country too, not just the country of rich white men and tattooed southerners still fighting the Civil War.

One sour note: Because the House remains dominated by Republicans, Boehner got on camera and said this did not give Obama a mandate. Really? I hope Obama wipes the floor with him and all the tea party members, and come mid term elections in 2014, that the tea party obstructionists are thrown out.

The Romneys, husband and wife, ran a divisive campaign full of lies and innuendos and Romney never denounced some of his most vile supporters.

The icing on the cake: Sherrod Brown retained his senate seat in Ohio. Elizabeth Warren defeated Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the ever cute Scott Brown, who voted against Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court seat. (She’s a woman, you know.) Todd Aiken and Richard Mourdock, who both support keeping women barefoot and pregnant because God wants it that way, are history. These loonies have been thrown out.

More icing: Obama won ALL the swing states despite well-planned voter suppression tactics. And Obama WON FLORIDA. I feel better about being here already.

Alan Grayson, a talented and outspoken Democratic representative from Florida, who lost his seat in 2010, has been elected once more to represent us. Watch this guy – he’s coming up and may well enter the presidential race in the future.

Bill Nelson, Democratic Senator of Florida, defeated his challenger, the tea party advocate, Connie Mack. Mack gave up his representative seat to run for the Senate and now he is out of a job. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, and I was privileged to vote against him.

I was going to post this last night, but then heard that the Romney campaign had not yet conceded, so I waited until this morning.

I learned that when the Fox News numbers crunchers also conceded the race to Obama, the on-camera “news” team wouldn’t go along. They were hanging tough, sort of like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin to show up in the pumpkin patch.

It will be interesting to see how the Republicans analyze this defeat. There is speculation that the right wing will say Romney "wasn't conservative enough". If they stay in that spurious bubble, they will never succeed

Romney finally made “the call” and gave his concession speech about midnight last night. His eyes looked red -- Anne definitely looked like she’d been crying.. They just couldn’t, it would seem, figure out what went wrong? They DESERVED to be king and queen. Wha hoppen?

The MSNBC news team said his speech was graceful, he said all the right things, he was the mensch he should have been during the campaign. Well, one graceful speech doesn't make up for a year of vicious lies. Then a Fox News head (we went over to Fox for a few minutes to see how they were doing), said that when Obama gave his acceptance speech, "he should be humble". What hubris.

The people have spoken.

And in the words of the immortal Roy Rogers – come a ti yi yippy ippy ay ippy, come a ti yi yippy ippy ay.



Message to the devout: If God didn't WANT this to happen, wouldn't he have stopped it?

xx, Teal