Granted that the Democrat campaign strategy was more sophisticated and targeted even though underfunded compared the Romney super PAC financing, Obama’s victory goes beyond the mechanics and business of presidential campaigns into the politics of representation.  Obama won because he and his campaign supporters  consistently projected fundamental American and humanist values: compassion and support for the underdog, the underdog being women and the diversity of minorities. Consequently, these two populations, women, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, those with disabilities probably felt, that going with Obama gave  at least a modicum of security that the new Obama administration will continue if not pursue aggressively those policies that “even the field”  amidst “white privilege”.  Obama knows and has seen this in his personal life. While subduing his obvious racial origins, he hoped and probably elevated in this re-election, that color is part of the American social fabric and should neither be a hindrance, a privilege or an entitlement.  To the degree that the U.S.  with Obama’s leadership can further project these representations, themes that already resonate amongst the hopeful of the world, US foreign policy should enter into a new paradigm of hopefulness.