Life will go on and the sun will rise again.

[BlueStater]

Almost ten years ago from today, I didn't believe that. When the Chimp-in-Chief won another term, I felt like my world had ended. I felt utterly hopeless and believed things would never get better.

Well, my world didn't end. A decade later, I'm still fighting the good fight. I remain optimistic that things will get better. It may take awhile but I believe we will have the last laugh in the end. The results of tonight don't fill me with despair or make me want to stick my head in an oven. It just makes me more determined and want to fight harder than ever before.

Let these shitbags enjoy their temporary victory. Nobody will remember it by 2016.

[lancdem]

1. well said!

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Right you are and on we go.

But I'm in KY and plan on moping for awhile.

[Lifelong Protester]

8. I'm in WI and plan on moping for a long while

[Kalidurga]

3. It's okay they started the race on third base and are celebrating like it's a home run...

They won't come even close to being that lucky in 2016.

[cbdo2007]

4. I think a loss now will actually be a good thing for the 2016 election.

We couldn't just keep riding high on the hog forever, and this gives the Repubes 2 years to show how even more incompetent they are.

[DebJ]

5. Well, it won't do that for long without Social Security and Medicare. n/t

[virtualobserver]

6. I'm not so optimistic

What Udall proved in Colorado, and Coakley may or may not prove in Massachusetts....poorly conceived campaigns can lose in blue states.

This party needs a leader.

[qanda]

7. This is the truth

In some ways this is a necessary evil to get peoples to wake up before the next Presidential election. A lot of people are politically disengaged. This may wake them up. I already noticed a shift in some of the comments on Facebook.

[pipi_k]

9. Yep, that's

the way I felt BOTH times Dubya weaseled his way into the White House.

The world was definitely coming to an end.

Well it didn't

And it won't this time, either.

Politics...things change. They'll change again.

Tearing our hair out won't change a thing.

So now the focus is on the next two years and putting a Democrat in the White House.