Obama's victory shows a more liberal, tolerant America

Obama’s re-election has been attributed from everything to healthcare, changing demographics in swing states and even Hurricane Sandy. But according to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman , the biggest story of Obama’s victory is not what helped him win, but what his win signifies. In a blog post for the _New York Time_s , Krugman says that what this victory has done most significantly, is debunk the theory of a ‘real America’ that consists of partisan white voters who are more conservative in nature, and show that the country is becoming more liberal and tolerant. [caption id=“attachment_517858” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] AP[/caption] He says:

For a long time, right-wingers — and some pundits — have peddled the notion that the “real America”, all that really counted, was the land of non-urban white people, to which both parties must abase themselves. Meanwhile, the actual electorate was getting racially and ethnically diverse, and increasingly tolerant too. The 2008 Obama coalition wasn’t a fluke; it was the country we are becoming. Notice too that to the extent that social issues played in this election, they played in favor of Democrats. Gods, guns, and gays didn’t swing voters into supporting corporate interests; instead, human dignity for women swung votes the other way.