If Romney loses...

[opebo]

I really don't understand what motivates so many people to be petty and mean-spirited and why it is so much more prevalent on the left side of the aisle, as indicated quite well by this thread and others.

Because we see your side as so bad that many of us would characterize it as 'genocidal'.

[opebo]

Life goes on and obama will continue unleashing poverty and declines in middle class incomes. What else?

What else?  Fewer poors will die.