Seriously, there are TOO many pundits out there ready to jump in front of traffic at the prospect of four more years of Obama... and FAR TOO many are actively contesting the election.
Please, people. It's over, and Obama won. Frankly, he won big. That's what happens in elections: someone wins, someone loses. Don't like it? Campaign harder next time.
This is NOT the most divisive campaign in US history... not by a long shot. Nothing was "stolen" from the American people and the country is not "ending", "over", or "dead".
1800. Jefferson/Adams... ugliest campaign season in US history. So ugly, that the incumbent (Adams) signed into law the Sedition Act, which made it illegal to write bad things about a sitting President or Senator.
1860. Lincoln/Douglas-Breckenridge-Bell: a divided Democratic vote leads to a Republican victory and the Civil War erupts. THAT was as close as we've come to an "end to America" people...
1876. Democrat Samuel Tilden has the election "stolen" from him (literally) by the GOP and it is handed to R.B. Hayes. This is as shady as it gets... Obama and Bush Jr. aren't even close.
Since 1912, and the defeat of Teddy Roosevelt by the GOP machine that wanted the more pliable Taft rather than the more popular Roosevelt, things have run pretty smoothly. It doesn't always go the way we want... but it does always go.
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