Election 2012: Truths and Consequences

I made a list of truths and consequences from Tuesday's election, but Rachel covered a bunch of them with such style that I yield the first sixteen minutes of my time to her.

It's pretty wonderful, all she said. I want to emphasize how big the Obama coalition showed up--higher percentages than in 2008 of Latinos (by several) but also of African Americans and the group that was less conspicuously enthusiastic but came through anyway--young voters.

Here are a few more things she didn't mention (at least in that segment):

Voter suppression didn't work.  It backfired.

Racism didn't work.

Lying didn't work.  Especially that one about Jeep jobs to China--a lie too far in Ohio.

War on women: not a good idea.  Didn't work.

Voucherize Medicare, didn't work.

We got Obamacare, people.  It's coming big time in a year or so. 

Money isn't everything: the dark billions the GOPers spent got them nothing.

The era of angry old white men is ending.

The Rabid Right is wrong, but unfortunately still delusional.

"a warming planet" he said in his victory speech.  It's time to take that on directly, too.

President Obama spent much of his victory speech giving credit to the people who reelected him.  He repeated things he's said before but that most people didn't hear, but now they've gone through this first term and this campaign together, and they could hear them now.  He said things that people have heard before, but in this new context.  If he can keep this sense of true participation, his second term can be wondrous.