The presidential election results were not necessarily surprising, but it was surprising how convincingly President Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the electoral vote.
With all the pre-election hype about battleground states, the results were rather anticlimactic as President Obama won nearly every swing state.
It is apparent the President Obama/Vice President Joe Biden team did one major thing in its campaign that the Governor Romney/Rep. Paul Ryan ticket simply did not accomplish: They appealed to women and nonwhite males. Governor Romney may have won 59 percent of the white vote, but he only won 23 percent of the Hispanic vote, and President Obama defeated him with women with 55 percent of that vote.
President Obama's stances on immigration and health care are far more appealing to people of color than those held by Mitt Romney. Concerning women, Governor Romney's anti-abortion stance is a major problem. The simple fact is that the vast majority of women in this country do not want to be told what they can and can't do with their own bodies by some bureaucrat in Washington.
Overall, President Obama's appeal to a wider demographic gave him a re-election victory. America is no longer a country of Caucasian male dominance. That is a fact that the Romney campaign failed to grasp.
TYLER SMITH
Schenectady