Re "Obama's Night" (front page, Nov. 7):
The division of red states and blue states once again surfaced in an American presidential election. But so did an American tradition of giving a guy who has done a good job under difficult circumstances another term in office.
Moreover, Americans endorsed President Obama's overall approach to restoring the American economy for the middle class and continuing with a national guarantee of health care.
However, we will have essentially the same makeup of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Still, there is much under the direct control of the president, such as promoting us as a peacetime nation, that can bring change. Bringing home the troops will help a strapped nation in many ways.
As for the Republicans, they must grapple with the political baggage that their radical conservative base saddles them with in national elections. Mitt Romney clearly would have been a much more appealing candidate across America had his message not been burdened with the ties to tired rejected social policies that the Republican base clings to.
Without any help from the politicians, America's political landscape has changed, with new classes of voters emerging. Like the realities of a changing climate, that new landscape cannot be ignored.
BRUCE NEUMAN
Sag Harbor, N.Y., Nov. 7, 2012
To the Editor:
Now that this long campaign is finally over and President Obama has won re-election, we as a nation should take some pride in our nation's progress in addressing racial inequality.
What a momentous occasion for President Obama, our first African-American president, who will be inaugurated on the day we celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. That is something that all Americans, regardless of their political leanings, should feel proud of.
EDWIN ANDREWS
Malden, Mass., Nov. 7, 2012
To the Editor:
The Republicans will be relegated to an inconsequential minority party for decades unless they learn how to embrace women, Latinos and young voters. Republicans got clobbered in these demographic groups.
A good start would be to abandon their toxic positions on social issues and immigration, and focus on the debt, deficit and health care issues, which truly need to be addressed at the federal level.
You can't preach "small" government and then tell same-sex couples that they can't marry, or women that they can't have easy access to contraception or immigrants that they should self-deport.
Then show some Congressional flexibility (suppress Tea Party instincts to say no to everything) and true bipartisanship (Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey knew how to do it), and then, finally, find a candidate who can relay a consistent and understandable message without looking and sounding like an aristocrat. Then, and only then, will we have a real two-party system.
PETER C. ALKALAY
Scarsdale, N.Y., Nov. 7, 2012
To the Editor:
I am overjoyed by the outcome of this election, but like some of the people in "The Most Sought-After Voters Were No Longer Flattered by the Attention" (news article, Nov. 7), I am appalled not only by the acrimony of the debate, but also by the length of the campaign, the millions of dollars spent on advertisements and the deluge of e-mails and telephone calls.
I hope that President Obama and Congress will consider setting some limits. How about this for a start: three months of campaigning; equal but limited time on major network television; equal and limited amounts of money from the government for advertisements and travel?
Just think what the huge amount of money spent on this campaign could have done for the country — creating jobs, providing health care and education, fixing roads and damage from disasters. Where are our values?
CAROL DELANEY
Providence, R.I., Nov. 7, 2012
To the Editor:
Two points made repeatedly throughout this election were that President Obama never laid out a second-term agenda and that Mitt Romney never gave sufficient detail for his. As such, it is difficult to know exactly what either party wants.
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