The President Was Reelected

Got an itsy bitsy majority of the popular vote (which is actually quite a big thing - he is the first Democratic president since FDR to win two terms with a majority) and ran away with the Electoral vote.  

And my fears about Karl Rove trying to make a mad dash with Pennsylvania & Ohio?  While they came to naught, am more convinced than ever that Bush's Brain expected to.  He went into a veritable - seriously - melt down on Fox, INSISTING that Megyn Kelly go back to the network's prognosticators for a change in their call for President Obama.  He was practically babbling - seriously - as he shuffled & jabbed at papers with numbers on them, as he rambled about having folks from the Romney campaign in Ohio on the line.  It was amazing to behold.  Things did NOT turn out the way he expected, and I have to wonder what that might have been.

I don't expect that the president's reelection is going to change the basic make-up of SCOTUS, which was the ultimate prize in this election, but at least he can keep it's occasional semblance of balance.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg can FINALLY retire without worrying about a GOP president replacing her with another Scalia or Thomas, as Gov. Romney had promised.  I foresee her retiring sooner, rather than later, so her successor can be confirmed by the Senate before the 2014 mid terms.

We shall see what we shall see.  .