[credit Lee Judge, Kansas City Star]
The presidential election is finally over and the country sighs in relief. El Obamados won a decisive
Electoral College victory (332 to 206) loosing only two states, Indiana and North Carolina, that he carried in 2008 but the popular vote is very close.
When the counting is over the President will win the popularity contest by about 51%. It's hardly a mandate, and he has to work with a Congress that is controlled by conservatives in the lower house and gridlocked in the upper house. Hurricane Sandy played a walk-on role. Several conservative pundits have expressed the view that the weather emergency put a brake on Mitt Romney's momentum going into Election Day, but the President's crushing defeat of Governor Romney among Latino voters where he
won by a margin of 44% is the take-away story of this cycle:
[credit: Rick McKee, Augusta Chronicle]
Wackydoodle sez: Ain't no app fer 'canes!
