As it currently stands:

That was my understanding as well. It's not exactly a landslide, but it's still a majority of the total votes, let alone any individual candidate's votes.

Mostly pleased, except for the shellacing my congressional candidate (Pennsylvania 3rd district) got. The one i was working for.

Anyway... I think the general theme of this election is that the Republicans have flung themselves too far to the right. I mean, i won't deny that Obama's overseen a period economically comparable to the hated 1970s, and some of that may have been his fault (though in all objectivity, partisan obstructionism on both sides is a big part of our gridlock as well), but while the Democrats are willing to move to the middle, the Republicans clearly aren't. The embrace of some of the more radical economic policies, as well as their extreme slants on gays and reproductive rights have completely screwed them over. I mean, look at Todd Akin, who got his ass whomped over his rape comments even though McCaskill (his opponent) was not very well-liked in Missouri.

Similarly, we have Richard Mourdock from Indiana. He beat the Republican senator, Lugar, in the primaries, because Indiana Republicans didn't like Lugar's willingness to work across the aisle, and then his stupid rape comments caused the Republicans to lose one of their coveted Senate seats entirely.

It's clear. The Republicans need to focus on common-sense reforms and abandon their extreme stances on the economy and wedge issues, or face irrelevence. I mean, if they can't beat Obama under these conditions, their only hope (other than changing themselves) is that the global economic meltdown comes in the next four years.

actually it seems it would be a good day to be a rapist. seeing as the party that least wants severe punishment for them won.

Rapists should be happy, they probably can look forward to raping several women, and then only get like 5 years in jail, and probation if they agree to get consuling or something. And to top it all off the government will pay to kill his child, a child that he cares a grand total of ZERO shits about.

so overall all they should be quite happy about the election.

Sigh, I would like to post stuff that woud get me band here that people would love on GAF.

I thank the Gods Romneys is not my President and that Colorado went to Obama.

Who said that Republicans need a house majority to be obstructionist? Check out the record number of Filibusters used by Republicans when the Democrats are in power. They didn't want to pass policy. They wanted to stall the process to use as ammunition against the Democrats.

Now that Obama is on his last term, he has nothing to lose. Republicans on the other hand get reviewed in 2014, so they have the choice of sticking with the lunatic Tea Party, or looking to be bipartisan. It will be interesting to see what they decide to do to prevent them from losing the house in 2 years.

I'm surprised no conservative commentators linked Obama's winning to Halo 4's release.

"It's all a left wing conspiracy, I tell ya! Obama wanted Halo 4 to be released on election day to get his lazy base to get off their fat asses and vote while they're at it!"

Seems like I'm better at thinking up left wing conspiracies than right wingers are.

Interesting. What do you think it's more damaging to the image of the republican party - the Bush years creating sort of a public perception they are warmongers or the attachment to christian morals? Perhaps where they both mix? I can't say I would be happy if my country were fighting wars over some two-thousand year prophecies. 

Personally I would disagree with the economic instance of the GOP being an issue, yeah perhaps a bit extreme and liable to not make a part of the population happy, but a genuine conviction nevertheless that could turn out to be right one, who knows. But I could be wrong and you could be right, I don't know a lot of the inner workings of it to express a stronger opinion.

Hmm, true, although I'd argue that having control of the branch of the legislature which originates spending bills is a much longer lever than merely filibustering in the Senate.

As for your second paragraph, I'm curious to hear what folks think will happen. Personally, I expect the hard-liners to double down, not moderate. No idea what the rest of the party intends, although they've been happy to go along with the hard-liners for quite some time now.

I think it's interesting how much people stick up for the electoral college like this.  You come off as a politician.  The truth of the matter is that the Three-Fifths Compromise counted a slave as 3/5 of a human being.  This was agreed upon in 1787.  The electoral college was created in order to take power away from certain portions of the population.  This was created in 1787.  Interesting how it's the same year.  The college was created in order to make sure there was an imbalance of power, and that the minorities in the United States would never be fully counted.  This is the people's history, the true history.  Continue politicking.