After its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis.

>With Florida going into Thursday as the only state in the union that hadn't determined which presidential candidate won, criticism of the voting system again began to mount and calls arose for a new look at voting procedures.

The state's Democratic Party chairman blamed Gov. Rick Scott's administration and said moves to curtail early voting were part of what caused delays at the polls on Election Day.

WASHINGTON -- America's 57th presidential election revealed that a second important national institution is on an unsustainable trajectory.

Florida's final tally isn't in yet, and Romney has lost the presidential election with or without its coveted electoral votes, but spokespersons for the state's largest third parties insist they are the reason the Republican nominee did not carry the Sunshine State.