EA Video Analysis: Your 4-Point Guide to the US Elections...& What Happens Next

Four points and 9 1/2 minutes to understand not only President Obama's re-election, but the lessons and challenges for both the Democrats and the Republicans....

1. Why Obama Won: "It's the Centre, Stupid"
2. The Social Front: "Charlie Brown, Are We Still Living in Traditional White America?"
3. The Short-Term Challenge for Obama and....
4. The Bigger Challenge for the Republican Party

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US Elections 2012 Analysis: Republicans Head Towards a "Social Cliff"

Bill O'Reilly on Fox News on Tuesday night: "It's not a traditional (white) America anymore. And there are 50% of the voting public who want stuff....The white establishment is now the minority."

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The question in these days after the election: will Republicans recognize that a majority of Americans may not be interested in using the Bible as guidebook for legislating the lives of private citizens? Can they accept that the same majority no longer see the US as the protected reserve of the descendants of the nation's "white" founders?

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US Elections 2012: Wednesday's EA Analysis --- Obama, Romney, and What Happens Next

Scott Lucas: Obama's Victory and "What's Next for Foreign Policy" --- An Interview with Monocle 24
James Miller: The GOP Needs to Listen to Mitt Romney
Video: When Karl Rove Would Not Believe Fox News "Obama Wins Ohio"
Video: Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech
US Elections 2012 Special: Tuesday's Live Coverage and Analysis

US Elections 2012 Video: When Karl Rove Would Not Believe Fox News "Obama Wins Ohio"

Three minutes summarising Election Night for the Romney campaign and the Republican Party....

Karl Rove, campaign strategist for George W. Bush, refuses to believe Fox's call of Ohio for Barack Obama --- he remains unconvinced as Fox's anchorwoman takes a long journey down the corridors to verify the projection with the political number-crunchers. They explain the reasoning; Rove still does not believe.

US Elections 2012 Audio: Obama's Victory and "What's Next for Foreign Policy" --- Scott Lucas with Monocle 24

This is one of the most challenging and thus productive interviews I have had on radio and television this year. Jeffrey Kaufman of ABC News and I spoke with Monocle 24's The Globalist around the range of foreign policy challenges facing President Obama even as he celebrated his victory late Tuesday night.

Topics range from the US presence in Afghanistan to the relationship with China to the global economic situation.

To get to the discussion, go to the 1:02.30 mark.

US Elections Opinion: The GOP Needs to Listen to Mitt Romney

See Also US Elections 2012 Special: EA's Live Coverage and Analysis

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Barack Obama won a decisive victory last night, taking both the popular and electoral vote. However, America does not feel any more united than it did before the polls opened. In fact, it feels more divided than ever. In the very early hours of the morning there was a man who could have broadened the divide or could have set the GOP, and the country, on the path of reconciliation and unity.

His name was Mitt Romney, and it appears he chose reconciliation over division.

While Conservative pundits were trying to rip the country apart and divide it further, and with some in the crowd calling for revolution, Mitt Romney gives a conciliatory and moving concession speech.

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US Elections Video: Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech

President Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech at 1:40 AM this morning.

Audio and written transcript of the speech is available here.

See also Mitt Romney's Concession Speech, with Opinion and Analysis --- US Elections Opinion: The GOP Needs to Listen to Mitt Romney

US Elections 2012 Special: EA's Live Coverage and Analysis

US Elections 2012: Why Obama Should Win Today --- and Romney's 3-Step Plan to Upset Him

The state of the election, according to Republican strategist Karl Rove

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After more than 18 months of preparations and campaigning, either President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be elected by US voters today --- that is, barring a knife-edge outcome as in Bush-Gore 2000 or a legal challenge over claimed irregularities in the ballot.

Most broadcast commentators are drawing in viewers with "Too Close to Call". The reality, however, is that Obama should be declared the victor late tonight. Here's why....

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US Elections 2012 Feature: The Hope for a Romney Upset --- Voter Turnout

The bottom line is that the bookies and most political pundits have President Obama as their favourite to win this election. Paddy Power, an Irish bookmaker, has already paid out on an Obama victory.

However, until that result is confirmed Republicans are still holding out hope that the polls are wrong and that their voters, more committed to their candidate than Obama's supporters, will turn out in enough numbers to make a fool of not just Paddy Power but many of the "liberal" media as well.

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US Election Video: Vote Romney for the Zombie Apocalypse

The EA staff are still considering our endorsement for Tuesday's US Presidential Election, but going through the many videos urging us to stick with Obama or change with Romney, this may be the most persuasive....

Joss Whedon, the man who introduced us to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, now introduces us to the reason for a Romney Presidency: "The vision and determination to cut through the business-as-usual politics and finally put this country back on the path to the Zombie Apocalypse".