1. Billionaire gambling casino mogul Sheldon Adelson was a big loser in this campaign. Having given more than $53 million to at least six candidates (starting with Newt Gingrich) -- all six lost. Maybe he, and others of his ilk, will think again before they try to buy elections for their narrow, greedy self-interest. Even Linda McMahon couldn't buy herself a senate seat to represent Connecticutt.
2. FoxNews and all the right-wing would-be pundits who sell lies and distortions. They even had an on-air argument last night between Karl Rove and the Fox number crunchers over calling Ohio for Obama. Karl Rove challenged his own team -- but they proved him wrong.
3. The mentality that says "we can't sell our product on merits, so we'll tell the people to just trust us and we'll take care of things." And for good measure, they tried to buy the election with obscene amounts of money and to suppress the Democratic vote in 10 different ways. It all failed, over and over again across the country.
4. The Tea Party. Many of their parade leaders lost their races: Alan West, Joe Walsh. Even Michele Bachmann just barely squeeked through to re-election as the House Leader of the Tea Party Coalition.
It's a great day for honesty, integrity, progressive thinking, fairness, justice, and compassion. And the Supreme Court has been saved.
Ralph
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