I personally think you completely missed the point to such a degree that it's actually kind of embarrassing for you.

I'm aware of this, but think of the fiasco in 2000. Popular vote is still a BFD. If this were the other way around, if Romney had won the EC and not the popular vote, I imagine a fair number of people gloating now would be very sore losers, indeed.

If the popular vote had swung for Romney in spite of the Electoral College, the collective sour mood in the US would have only deepened, if you ask me. People who don't show confidence in Obama would have likely grown, and we all would've drowned in oppressed conservative tears over our sham of a democracy (a la…

The Electoral College is not the only set of votes to look at.

That was quite obviously not what I was referring to. The EC isn't the only set of votes to look at.

Yup, and I'm not ready to accept this as a huge, landslide victory - at least not until we keep the wave going into the coming years. This is a start, but it's by no means the finish.

Electoral college, sure. But the country would have been even more unbearable had the 50.5 - 48% popular vote been the other way around. That's pretty damn close, and that's kind of the point. Had the GOP put out, say, Huntsman, we might not feel so smug today. You can call it a large victory if you'd like, but I…

Can we stop pretending like the election was a landslide? I'm all for celebrating the great people who got elected, as well as the great measures that were passed - and I'm all for lighting a fire under conservatives for shitty anti-abortion measures like this one - but this wasn't some kind of knock-down, drag-out…

BRB PUTTING ALL MY MONEY INTO KLEENEX STOCK BECAUSE I AM GOING TO REQUIRE ALL THE TISSUES FOREVER AFTER THIS.

Ah, yes. If only those born into poverty, without access to adequate resources to learn and grow to their full potential and have a stable household with attentive parents and an opportunity to not only attend, but afford college — if only they had just been more aggressive, not unlike our protagonist here, who…

Please don't categorize Dawkins as a skeptic; he's not, he's an atheist. And trust me, there is definitely a difference.