Well he did give a gracious concession speech but I can't feel sorry for him. If he'd won the election he would have smugly continued with the same policies we have suffered under for eight years. There'd have been not a glimmer of hope for doing anything that would help people as far as our health care situation is concerned (having raised a child with an expensive chronic illness, that's alway been an extremely important issue for me and my family), the rich would have continued to gorge themselves on the wealth of this country and protect their own interests at the expense of the middle and working class, and we'd still be trying to bully the rest of the world with our foreign policy. He had the arrogance (or stupidity, I haven't figured out which - maybe both) to choose Sarah Palin as a running mate which I feel was an insult to women and to the American people. I don't think he deserves any sympathy. I'm glad he lost!