Reasons to be Cheerful (everyone add one please!)
No more "My name is Sean & I'm an Energy Voter" Ads.
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Now we can return to knee pee and low T issues...(well, a slight improvement, I suppose!)
I wish you success in you endeavor 
Obama gonna do some Gangsta shit if he gets a second term.
It is the beginning of her interest in politics. She came over today and shared with me all the wonderful things her young friends are saying about Obama and how she was so glad she voted for him. This is the same daughter I took with me to Pittsburgh in "08". We stayed in line for three hours in the freezing cold to get a glimpse of the young Senator Obama when he was running the first time. She is in college, will remain on my medical insurance, and gets student loans to attend college. President Obama won, thank God!
The President has provided a response, through his accomplishments and reelection, to those in the GOP discounting the value of community organizing. (I'm winking at you, Gemma.)
I can't figure out how to get this map here rather than there, but, check it out.
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/house/texas/
This is a thing of beauty. I'm willing to bet that within 8 years Texas will be a swing state. Texas.
2. They Republicans have learned nothing. Right now they're raving about how, "It was voter fraud! The Black Panthers stole it!" No, wait, "The Democrats suppressed the vote!" Oh no, it's that, "Democrats are just lazy, they want stuff for free." No, no, no. It was that, "We weren't conservative enough!"
Not conservative enough? They ran candidates that were pro-slavery. They had people who wanted to ban contraception, and repeal the 19th Amendment. They had one guy who wanted the government to grant parents the right to execute their own children for disrespectful behavior. 
These are not people who will change anything. They'll continue to alienate and antagonize voters. There will never be enough of them who realize that being the party of angry, frightened, old white men is a strategy with diminishing returns. And the best part is, they did it to themselves. They would be better able to respond if they hadn't spent literally decades listening to their own biases and prejudices parroted back to them. They're not emotionally capable of handling the truth, so they only listen to 'news' that hews to their preconceived notions.
They are going the way of the Whigs. They're even now spiraling into extremism and irrelevancy. They'll become less and less of a force as time goes on. If they do nothing, which is very likely, within 30 years there will be no Republican party at all.
By POPULAR VOTE.
We are on our way. 
We'll get there eventually.
