My heart sank when they called the race for Obama. Watching Carl Rove at Fox News stunned into denial, arguing it was too soon, “All the votes aren’t in yet in Ohio.” Rove knows the drill well, politics is his life.

All you Republicans out there who were trusting predictions like Dick Morris’, “Romney will win by a landslide. They are not factoring in the new demographics,” discovered that indeed it was the Republicans who had not caught up with the changing landscape of its people. So, after what seemed like the longest political campaign in history, with billions of dollars spent and thousands putting their hearts and money on the line, we ended up just where we started: gridlock in the Congress, the same president and vice president, and a country divided.

President Lincoln also faced a nation divided, leading to a civil war that had to be the most heartbreaking and darkest moment in American history. Blood poured out onto our soil and sank deep into the earth. Lincoln also shed his blood because of the great division in the land. It was blood that paid the price of Liberty.