21 Thoughts and Observations on the Election

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21 Thoughts and Observations on the Election

 

 

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | November 8th, 2012 at 01:00 PM | 0

 

1) Obama won by running a divisive wedge issues-based campaign in the right locations, in conjunction with a killer ground game. He ran up huge margins with blacks in VA and OH. He played the amnesty card with Hispanics in CO, NV, and FL. He played the war on women card with white women in NH, WI, and IO. But wedge issues, such as immigration and gay marriage cut both ways. While Obama can use them to make gains with some demographics, he should lose at least as many with a surge in Evangelical voters who are against gay marriage and blue collar workers who are against illegal immigration (and gay marriage). Romney conceded those issues and didn’t return the favor of the wedge. Hence, Obama enjoyed the gain of employing wedge issue attacks without incurring the loss.

 

2) Romney won 32% of the Jewish vote. Believe it or not, that is the highest share since 84/88. At least some people are moving in the right direction.

 

3) For all the talk of Republicans facing an insurmountable demographic juggernaut with single women, minorities, and youth, the talking heads fail to explain that Democrats are losing their own demographics. Romney won Independents by 5 points, and he lost whites by the largest margin since Reagan. However, it’s clear that there is more room to grow in those two demos. To the extent that Obama gains on social issues, such as immigration and marriage with some of his demos, had Romney fought back on those issues, he could

 

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The best thing about embracing your Hobbitry…

 

November 8, 2012

 

Posted by Jeff G. @ 9:18am

 

 

…Is that you can stop caring what the GOP establishment and its mouthpieces think about you.

 

And you can say things like this: if Chris Christie or Jeb Bush are ever put up for national office, I’ll actively campaign against them.

 

Or this: any “conservative” pundit or website that is talking about the need to appeal to Latinos (or any other ethnic or identity group) in a way that effectively surrenders first principles for a chance at taking power — deeming this move “realistic” or pragmatic, while sneering at the “purists” who simply Don’t Know How Things In DC Work — is not, in fact, conservative; is not, in fact, a constitutionalist; and is not, in fact, part of your “team.”

 

In truth, they despise you, because they see you as an impediment to regaining power and to reasserting the status quo on the right. They are embarrassed by you. And while the left likes to keep you around so they can point to you as fringe extremists, the establishment right will work actively to sabotage your influence and dictate to you the terms of your political choice.

 

These are mere political creatures who for one reason or another have chosen one team over the other (perhaps they like lower taxes; or more business-friendly regulations) from which to base themselves. And having done so, they fight for the party brand, because it is part and parcel of their political identity.

 

Well, they can keep their damned brand. Because as I noted yesterday, their brand couldn’t turn out enough voters to defeat a disastrous President running on myths and lies. So what good is it?

 

Don’t fret, though. Because now they’re getting serious. Doing a lot of navel gazing. How can we get the demographics to return ourselves to power? they keep asking. How do we bring over single women or Latinos? How do we prevent social conservatives from smearing us with their decidedly non-cosmopolitan worldviews, which are routinely used against them by a antagonistic press, and as a result, spread to the rest of the party? How can we make sure we run only thoroughly vetted and party-approved candidates, and that we don’t mess with our incumbents? Because it’s about numbers, not ideology. Winning is paramount. Everything else is secondary.

 

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Obama won. Life goes on.

 

November 8, 2012 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Elections | Posted by David Robertson

 

People whining about the re-election of Barack Obama could learn a lesson from cartoon character Linus Van Pelt, the best friend of Charlie Brown.

 

In one Charlie Brown cartoon, Charlie Brown is in bed, whining about how horrible his day has been. Linus enters the room and then proceeds to remind Charlie Brown that the earth was still turning. In short, Charlie Brown had not experienced doomsday.

 

Well, the same is true for the USA. The re-election of Barack Obama was disappointing to some of us, but it wasn’t the beginning of the end.

 

The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of some Republicans is quite bewildering considering how often that Republicans claim that they are believers in God. Apparently, the God they believe in isn’t the same God mentioned in the first verse of the Tanakh (a.k.a. Old Testament).

 

In Ezra 1:1 we read the following: “In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia

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Not What If – What Next (Part I: Morphine)

 

 

 

 

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Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) | November 8th at 12:00 PM |

 

It was 2008, and Bill Whittle was an intelligent man deeply confounded. He wondered how in the heck people could consider voting for Junior Senator, Barack Obama as America’s next president. He finally

hit on a valid analogy. He saw people in sudden, acute economic desperation and compared them to a patient in acute kidney distress. The white-hot pain gets to be intense; it shuts down your ratiocination. You fall deeply in love with the dude who promises you the shot of pain-killer which was exactly what Candidate Obama then promised. But why continue in 2012?

 

Well, let’s say the pain gets to be chronic. You’re still hurting forty days later, the doctor can’t fix it and the bills are stacked to your chin so you have to go to work hurting. You’d better take a little something and maybe put a stick between your teeth and suck it up. President Obama was overjoyed to hand out the little blue happy pills. Food Stamp enrollment shot up. Welfare benefits

 

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