Shit like this happens in a country full of ungrateful bastards.

[MrScorpio]

[still_one]

1. They fucked themselves in 2000 as the republicans trashed the economy, and they are working are to

see if they can do it again.

[ErikJ]

8. Republicans incapable of learning from history

They had complete power in the 8 yrs before the 2 worst crashes in history in 1929 and 2008 with their big tax cuts on the rich and deregulations of banks and mortgage industry, and they cant wait to try it for a 3rd time.

[napi21]

2. I dont think DU would allow me to post what I just said when I read that.

Did he REALLY say that?

[roamer65]

3. The dying days of our republic.

[maced666]

4. Well, 2012 and 2008 did happen.

Now we are all bastards.
Okay.

[underthematrix]

5. white people did this to America. Why, why, why?

My heart is totally broken. My husband is white but he's well educated, informed and an excellent critical thinker. But seriously white people did this and I just don't get it. The only other explanation is fraudulent recording of electronic votes. To me, the latter option makes more sense.

[MrScorpio]

6. I absolutely agree

And the returns totally bears out your point.

[freshwest]

7. And no doubt, predictably and tritely as I have been told I am, and a partisan hack:

It has been the rejection of Obama the man and the mission, which was our mission, that led to this. America had a great chance to get behind him from the beginning and embrace the vision he has had for us.

And the support has been behind him, so far behind him as to be non-existant, when he said in 2007 that he could not do the job alone. Yet he was left the burden alone and all the abuse one can imagine.

The vision was blown off by feelings of entitlement and a desire to be popular by joining the media industry of Obama hate to be seen as clever. That man has more brain power and heart in his little finger than most human beings.

And he - and that vision, more importantly - was shat upon by the high and mighty and those who wanted their favor. Most did not realize whose meme they repeated or why it was out there. And shit still rolls downhill which some seem to have forgotten. I predict nothing good from this, it's my forecast for a generations. This isn't about just one election.

It was years in the making and portends of worse to come. I wished good luck on another thread but now think that is just some of my own magical thinking.

[LawDeeDah]

14. ...

That is so true. What a complete waste of a great opportunity all due to the incredible stupidity and laziness of people.

I curse one and all of both parties and all stripes for being so fucking bloody stupid as to beat down on that good man.

Fuck you all very much, each and every one of you who had a part in doing this. And you know who you are, you jelly brained spineless shits.

[Wella]

10. If that's the case, the Democrats have to start courting the white vote

I'm assuming white males here: white females skew Democratic.

[Cleita]

12. I hope some newspapers go in and do recounts like they did in Florida and found

out after the fact that Al Gore did in fact win Florida. It will be too late to change the makeup of Congress but if it can be proven there were shenanigans maybe the way we do voting can be fixed before 2016.

[moondust]

9. White privilege.

Can be pretty tough to make it in this world without it.

[SunSeeker]

13. Why? Two words: Fox News

They set the bullshit narrative that the ACA hurt people. And did we push back and point out it is saving thousands of lives and saving seniors from the costs of the Medicare donut hole? No.

This resulted in SCHOOLTEACHERS voting Republican because they are worried about the ACA. Read what Mary Landrieu is up against in this CNN article that quotes a retired school teacher:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/us/politics/in-louisiana-challenger-pushes-landrieu-to-runoff.html

[golfguru]

15. Many black people did not vote today

Obviously they did not find many compelling reasons to go to the polls.

[Dr Claw]

16. thank goodness SOMEONE isn't dancing around the elephant in the room

(no pun intended)

but ever since 2008 I have heard over and over and over about who voted for Obama.
but who votes GOP? what does that demographic look like?

I'm not expecting much of the electorate to be fed the same kind of information that people who usually vote in a forum like this one have at their disposal but ....

seriously, people can't ignore this part of the puzzle. A lot of the GOP vote is against Obama. Who he is, what he represents in their eyes, even if it is not reality.

nearly every GOP candidate sucked. And the Democratic challengers didn't put up enough of a fight. But something makes me wonder even if they had, would they still have a chance....

[IronLionZion]

20. Think about the hippie socialists on DU

about their race and living situations of the ones who are for "purity" and oppose centrist red state dems. They rarely live in red states or suffer much from republican policies. They can let others suffer from tea party policies very easily to teach them a lesson.

I think there's lots of white privilege among hippies. They live in a completely different world.

[Skittles]

21. STUPID white people

don't blame them all

[blackspade]

11. Saddly true.

What a fucking depressing night....

[Odin2005]

17. Americans are a bunch of morons.

[MaggieD]

18. You got that right

[yuiyoshida]

19. So I Guess we can expect

A Republican President next? Holy crap..when will it ever end?