Some more stuff to read....If you need to.

Do not be dispirited...this is not the time (although we can grieve for a while). But people need to regroup. After all in only few years we almost broke what they where building for decades... It's just going to take longer than everyone hoped for. Let's still hope there is not enough damage in next few years to make it irreversible.
It should finally be clear - you need to stand firm for what you believe, and not be afraid that there may not be enough people that agree with it. You can't be accepted for being slightly better, kinder version of the other guy... But most importantly you need to make it clear who you are instead them defining you....(non of this is new of' course). I can write lot more, but there is no need.
Although I do not want to read much about what happened and how it happened. But this gives some good summaries:
(also make sure to scroll down to check couple of links at the bottom)

From www.dailykos.com

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Valuesby kosWed Nov 3rd, 2004 at 12:35:44 PSTIt wasn't the war or the
economy that killed us. It was the notion of "values". Massachusetts has the
lowest divorce rate in the nation, yet Kerry was bad because he had "Massachusetts values" or other such nonesense. We need to retake the language. We need to reframe the notion of "value". That's why Obama's speech below is so brilliant. He speaks of God in a way that not just fails to offend this atheist, but inspires me. It's faith used for the purpose of living a good life, rather than faith wielded as a weapon against a whole class of people. The wedges: gays, abortion, and guns. Democrats
have abandoned guns as an issue, and over the next three or four cycles it will prove an increasingly ineffective wedge. The NRA won. Good for them. That leaves the
two "faith based" wedges -- gays and abortion. And with great skill, the Republicans have equated those two issues with the word "value". That's going to have to change. .........

Some more

Remember Goldwaterby kos
Wed Nov 3rd, 2004 at 10:19:11
PSTDon't ignore history
In 1964, the Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater by 23 points. Goldwater anaged to carry just 6 states and Johnson won the electoral college 486-52. But the conservatives didn't give up. They didn't spend a lot of time wringing their hands. They regrouped and fought back. By 1968, Nixon crushed Humphrey in the
electoral college 301-191 and won the popular vote by a million votes. If you oppose Bush, now isn't the time to feel sorry for yourself. Now is the time to get to work.
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Let's hope it becomes our 1964...
Also check this article.
AND on a lighter (but serious) note read this about why not to move to Canada.

Remember this defeat is certainly terrible by itself.... But it would be disastrous if nothing happens as a result of this...