The defeat of Mitt Romney was a triumph for American democracy. Imagine, changing the regime without bloodshed, riots, abductions, or disappearing candidates. It also revealed something the GOP had not come to grips with: the USA is no longer a majority white country. White people are now less than 50% of the population. The country is also 50% women. To fail to serve the non-white majority or the women is a fatal error. Until now, and for some time to come, Congress is dominated by white, male, millionaires. In spite of pumping over a billion dollars into the campaign, supporters of the white millionaire candidate failed. The Republicans voted unanimously against equal pay for women, and the women responded by electing twenty women to the Senate, the largest number ever. The Republican candidates who made ignorant remarks about rape and its consequences (e.g. "legitimate rape" and a baby conceived by a rape was ordained by God) were both defeated. The world, she is a changing.
The Democrats, after years of floundering, have finally organized nationwide. Their computer system knows everyone who votes Democratic and might be swayed to vote for Democrat candidates. The system includes addresses, phone numbers, and your voting record. In Ohio the Democrat party had over 140 offices versus forty for the Republicans. It paid off.
We are still a long way from a government that truly reflects the population of the United States. The only minority represented beyond its percentage of the population are the Jews, and they are not even included when minorities are tallied. There is only one known lesbian, a couple of gay members, one or two Moslems. We await the day when 50% of the congress is female.
The days of government b y white male millionaires are not yet over, but if they are smart, they will read the demographics and act accordingly.
