Phil, on 2012-November-07, 09:29, said:
Romney will be remembered (or not) as a footnote in the most divisive and expensive presidential election in history.
Romney and the President can defuse some of the anger of those who believed the misstatements made during the campaign by following through on the conciliatory statements that each made last night.
I was in the waiting room of our local hospital early this morning when a couple came in and, evidently, saw on TV for the first time that the president had been re-elected. The husband turned purple and shouted "How the hell did he pull that off?" As his wife tried to calm him (shush him up, really), he went on about how he couldn't live in a communist country, etc., etc. The guy was genuinely shocked (and very angry) that Obama had won.