Thanks for being nice about it, Pepe.According to the polling data, the election was a replay of 2004, with the incumbent generating enough votes to win again. That didn't work out so well for the Republicans then, because they concluded that their reelection and increased majority in the Senate showed that they had a mandate to govern farther right, which expressed itself in ridiculous acts like the federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
We'll see if the Democrats do better.
The main problem for Republicans is twofold: the widening of the "gender gap" and the increasing population of Democratic-leaning Latinos. There is a strong disconnect between the religious conservatives and the majority in these groups.
Since there is little doubt that Obama will have to introduce a large punitive tax hike in the next four years, I see nothing but economic collapse ahead. YMMV.