The Shrinkage of the Obama Majority

[Geee]

National Review:

Some observations on the election:

 

1) This was a wave, folks. It will be a benchmark for judging waves, for either party, for years.

 

2) In seriously contested races, Republican candidates were generally younger, more vigorous, more sunny and optimistic than Democrats. The contrast was sharpest in Colorado and Iowa, which voted twice for President Obama. Cory Gardner and Joni Ernst seemed to be looking forward to the future. Their opponents grimly championed the stale causes of feminists and trial lawyers of the past.

 

Democrats see themselves as the party of the future. But their policies are antique. The federal minimum wage dates to 1938, equal pay for women to 1963, access to contraceptives to 1965. Raising these issues now is campaign gimmickry, not serious policymaking.

Democratic leading lights have been around a long time. The party’s two congressional leaders are in their 70s. The governors of the two largest Democratic states are sons of former governors who won their first statewide elections in 1950 and 1978.

[Geee]

I'm sorry, but I can never hear the word 'shrinkage' anymore without thinking of George Costanza

[Valin]

The operative phrase here is OBAMA majority. The coat tails have shortened considerably, particularly since 2012.

[Valin]

Waves of future passed

Scott Johnson

Nov. 7 2014

 

We’ve come a long way since the pundits (and they were legion) declared the imminent death of the Republican Party in 2008. Reports of the party’s death were, to borrow the phrase from Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? is more like it.

 

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