Here in Boone, NC the only bowl they know of is the kind they destroy after gorging on pork rinds. But they do know this: republicans had a mandate to repeal all of Obama’s legislative achievements in 2011.

“The contest is a lion fight . So you put your chin up, shoulders back, walk proud and strut a little. Don’t lick your wounds, celebrate them .You’re in a lion’s fight. Just because you didn’t win, doesn’t mean you don’t know how to roar” .