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America and the 2012 elections, what did the elections tell us? Winners and losers.

The dust is beginning to settle and everyone is coming out to survey the damage.  On the surface, one would think nothing happened.  House is controlled by the GOP and the Senate and the White House are in Democrat hands.  Numbers appear to be largely the same, was there even an election?  One would think by the cries and wails of Romney supporters that the end is near. However upon closer inspection one sees some very interesting dynamics at play.  There were visible winners and losers yesterday.  Do not accept the explanations and excuses that are rapidly coming down the pipe from those with serious egg on their face, like Dick Morris and his assertions that the electorate changed or that no Republican could have won this election because Romney was so perfect.  Morris is blind, his blindness is punctuated by his closing statement: We must stop Obama’s socialist agenda. That’s our job for the next four years. We cannot allow Obama to magnify his narrow victory into a mandate for