A Victory Over Suppression?

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/nov/11/victory-over-suppression/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=November%2013%202012&utm_content=November%2013%202012+CID_f020202350acc868813d2830c517536a&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=A%20Victory%20Over%20Suppression

Despite their considerable efforts the Republicans were not able to buy or steal the election after all. Their defeat was of almost Biblical nature. The people, Democratic supporters of the president, whose votes they had plotted, schemed, and maneuvered—unto nearly the very last minute—to deny rose up and said they wouldn’t have it. If they had to stand in line well into the night to cast their vote they did it. The lines were the symbol of the 2012 election—at once awe-inspiring and enraging.