The most important result of this election in my opinion is to have kept the Tea Party from filling the coming vacancies in the Supreme Court.
One would hope that now that Barack Obama doesn't have to run for office anymore that he might stand more firmly against the Republican ultra-right in the coming four years.
I "hope" he will "change", but I doubt it.
I am amazed at how mediocre he has proven, how timid and uninspiring he has been after such a build up as he gave himself in 2008... it would have served him right to lose.
However today the Republican party is in the hands of a neo-fascist movement and must be kept out of power at all costs until they move back to moderation... if they ever do.