I can't believe the popular vote was such a close race.   Still though, I'm happy that my country dodged another bullet! 
 
		 
Some tears of RELIEF tonight..."my country" didn't dodge just another bullet..."my country" dodged a horrific apocalypse.  The alternative was the bombing of Iran and Pakistan (probably starting World War Three and perhaps massive annihilation) or, short of that, gays being forced back into the closet by Sandra Day O'Connor's SCOTUS replacement at some future date...repeal of all health care and baking protections, complete destruction of freedom on the Internet, etc.
The Republicans of 2012 are arguably the most authoritarian, theocratic, hypocritical, and dishonest "major competitive political Party" in  any modernized "First World" nation during the lifetimes of nearly anybody on JUB.
I have not been entirely satisfied with Barack Obama, either, but he will indeed be President for FAR more than 47% of the people.  Let's double this and add six more.  I don't consider him to have been much better than George Herbert Walker Bush (the "first" Bush 1989-1993), but to evolve from GHWB to what the Republicans became in 2012 was indeed crossing a bridge of almost incalculable distance.
I was afraid that I would have to consider trying to move out of the United States, being entirely unable to abide an electorate who would give constant lying and obfuscation, hatred of gays, hatred of women, repeal of all protections of nearly anything, etc.  The Republicans have been soundly PUNISHED for their extreme crackpot ideas, and have been held accountable in the end for their solid lies, lies, lies, lies.  
We even have entire states, now, with electorates agreeing that GLBT should, indeed, have full equal rights.
There is a God.
I'm eating that egg off my face now (for projecting that Ohio and Florida would indeed be STOLEN by the Republicans), and I am 
relishing every morsel of it, possibly more wonderful than anything else I have ever eaten.