WASHINGTON (AP) — The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speaking, jaggedly split down the middle on the presidency and torn over much else. It seems you can please only half of the people nearly all of the time.
Americans retained the fractious balance of power in re-electing President Barack Obama, a Republican House and a Democratic Senate, altogether serving as guarantors of the gridlock that voters say they despise. Slender percentages separated winner and loser from battleground to battleground, and people in exit polls said yea and nay in roughly equal measure to some of the big issues of the day.
i've been writing about this divide i firmly believe the escalation of this long time embedded dysfunction was due to the ravaging of the republican party by their T-ME-ME-Party, they were not as advertised, because i don't believe they are grassroots, i believe they are the hate monger extremist that thought they could steamroll our somewhat at the time naive Pres.
Democracy doesn't care if you win big, only that you win. Tuesday was a day of decision as firmly as if Obama had run away with the race. Democrats are ebullient and, after a campaign notable for its raw smackdowns, words of conciliation are coming from leaders on both sides, starting with the plea from defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney that his crestfallen supporters pray for the president.
But after the most ideologically polarized election in years, Obama's assertion Wednesday morning that America is "more than a collection of red states and blue states" was more of an aspiration than a snapshot of where the country stands.
"It's going to take a while for this thing to heal," said Ron Bella, 59, a Cincinnati lawyer who lives in Alexandria, Ky. He is relieved Obama won, but some of his co-workers are in a "sour mood" about it.
"They feel like the vast majority of the country wanted Romney, and the East and the West coasts wanted Obama," he said. "I'm not sure exactly why that is, but there just seems to be such hatred for Obama out there."
Compromise was a popular notion in the hours after Obama's victory and an unavoidable one, given the reality of divided government. But the familiar contours of partisan Washington were also in evidence, especially the notion that compromise means you do things my way.
the division IMO consist of those who are selfish and don't want to have any compassion for the other half, the idiocy of this ideology is the overwhelming majority of those apathetic' s are the very one's in need of or will be in need of the progressive agenda. the right wing has convinced them they are voting against people they were told the hate, but most don't know why just a band wagon mentality.
those leaders are the holders of the chance at uniting "we the people" if they would stop preaching hate and playing on their base's inherent propensity to hate anything that seems not them and teach the Bible they seem to have rewritten as it's meant to be. those in that club will have those who will wake and fight for change they must vote the those instigator's of division out, change can only come from within.
