The party’s over, and for the 10,000 Democrat disciples who frolicked into the wee small hours at Barack Obama’s re-election shindig in his hometown of Chicago, it’s time to call it a day. Yet as the grassroots campaigners began wending their way back to all corners of America, still clutching the flags they had waved till their arms went numb, the mood among them was far from euphoric. Rather, there was a sense of sheer relief. US President Barack Obama, accompanied by wife Michelle and his daughters at the re-election party in Chicago Relief that Romney’s worrying late surge had been repelled; relief that poll predictions of a Republican upset had proved ill-founded; and relief that the bitter, protracted struggle to spare their Messiah the ignominy of a one-term presidency was finally over.
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The re-election party is over and it's back to business for Barack Obama
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Supporters were relieved that Romney's worrying late surge had been repelled
Then, @placeholder’s nebulous promises of ‘hope and change’ were alone enough to kindle a great outpouring of joy and goodwill that bridged all divisions, but this time round the spontaneity was gone, and the celebrations seemed too triumphal, given the parlous state of the nation; and too schmaltzy and slickly choreographed.