Election 2012- Post Mortem

[visionary]

I caught him saying something about being happy the hurricane happened.

Wow. That's pretty bad.
Did anyone react to that?

[StillUnknown]

Wow. That's pretty bad.
Did anyone react to that?

You could hear a couple of his panel mates groan the moment he said it, then he tried to walk it back a little.

[s0crates]

GOP needs to appeal to somebody besides old white men.

Women, young people, and all the minorities are heavily against the GOP right now. They need to take a long look at themselves.

Also they need to start nominating viable candidates. Ron Paul might have had a chance.

[MartinC]

GOP needs to appeal to somebody besides old white men.

Women, young people, and all the minorities are heavily against the GOP right now. They need to take a long look at themselves.

Also they need to start nominating viable candidates. Ron Paul might have had a chance.

As a sort of outside observer (Although Im in and from the UK I work for a US business and am quite likely to relocate to the US on a long term basis next year) I would say the fundemental problem the Republican party have is that no viable candidate who would appeal to the unaligned or folks who voted democrat because they were turned off by Romney has a chance of getting nominated. The base of the Reublican party seems to have been taken over by the Religous right or tea party activists - the positions needed of candidates to get nominated by that constituency pretty much lock them out from just over half the vote. Demographics will make that locked out percentage grow as well.

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Yep. Glad I've been investing in real estate overseas for a decade. Sure has helped keep up the value of my savings since the dollar is down 100% since 2002.

Down 200% since 2002 against what?

[RedskinsFan44]

Perhaps we have seen the end of the D+9, +8 etc polling bias nonsense. Perhaps.

Ayn Rand hates losers

I want this as a bumper sticker

Edit: I see some strong parallels between the right's reactions to polling data and their reactions to climate science.

[ixcuincle]

Surprised that Question 7 passed

Not surprised that Question 6 passed

[SkinsFTW]

Down 200% since 2002 against what?

Lol, just about every currency on the planet. Dollar was 2-1 vs AUS, 2-1.2 vs Canada, was 1.6-1 vs Euro, 1.4-100 vs Yen. The dollar lost 50% of its value in a decade. Right now an Aus D, Canadian D, Euro, or Yen is worth about 2x vs the dollar.

[AsburySkinsFan]

The Tea Party is saying that the President didn't win, but the GOP lost because they presented a weak moderte candidate.....double down boys.

[Fergasun]

Dick Morris (on Fox):
- I feel bad for Obama, he really inherited a mess from himself.
- Polling reflected the same turnout of 2008, I did not think this was going to be the new turnout model.
- I was wrong. Turnout model is different than what we had.
- Blacks, Latino's and young people are greater than we had before (and single white women).
- This is the new America, the percentage of single women, African American's, Latino's and young people are greater than before.
- Unless the GOP changes, it can never win another election.
- If this candidate (Romney) in this economy (bad) can't beat this President (Obama), the GOP can never win another election.

[Chump Bailey]

Morris is spot on IMO^^^

[Fergasun]

Only thing I'm bummed about is California raising sales tax by .25% over 4 years. I guess its not as bad as Arnold's 1.5% increase from 2009 to 2011.

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Dick Morris on Obama working together:
- Fox News Anchor, Barack Obama doesn't have a bipartisan bone in his body.
- The President won re-election by the skin of his teeth; he is the first President who got re-elected by a lower margin.
- This is not a mandate. GOP should work with him when he's positive.
- But we need to stand up against the socialist agenda and stop him from fundamentally changing the USA.
- This is a President that lost 7 points off the mandate he had in 2008.
- GOP needs to stand up and make sure that the big government socialist agenda doesn't get solidified like Obama wants.
- Obama wants to take the country further to the left. Including big treaties I'm talking about in my book.

I find it odd that's it's 3 old white men making these comments on Fox News...

[Chump Bailey]

Only thing I'm bummed about is California raising sales tax by .25% over 4 years. I guess its not as bad as Arnold's 1.5% increase from 2009 to 2011.

I'm bummed because I see 8-10% unemployment for the next 4 years, more gridlock and spending, tax increases, stagnant growth, and a much weaker United States of America...

I do hope I'm wrong across the board.

[AsburySkinsFan]

Dick Morris (on Fox): .
- Unless the GOP changes, it can never win another election.
- If this candidate (Romney) in this economy (bad) can't beat this President (Obama), the GOP can never win another election.

Looks like Dick did some waking up last night. This was a winnable election for the GOP but they decided that doubling down on the hardcore Right agenda with their candidates. We've said it for a long time that the GOP is now the party of white men when the lectorate is increasingly multi-racial and female. They appealed with Objectivist absurdity, and screamed against the moocher class, which worked until people woke up and realized that they were the 47%.

[skinsmarydu]

I dozed off about 10:30, and woke up during Barack's speech. (Hubby dvr'd both.) He said he flipped over to Fox to see how they were covering it, and Karl Rove was going crazy.
And Morning Mika has a live audience this morning.
It's gonna be a great day!

[Fergasun]

John Fund on Fox News talking about disturbing news allowing unregistered voters to vote in Ohio. They are also complaining about Pennsylvania and a mural of Obama. Also highlighting the member of the New Black Panther Party, although John Fund says he's just doing it for publicity. Talking about workers coming in from Illinois who registered and voted the same day in Wisconsin and how it is purely illegal, since they live in Illinois.

John Fund thinking that we need to look at voter fraud. Even if Presidential race isn't close, some state races are close and could have been turned by fraudulent voters.