2 Comments

Brian
November 7th, 2012 | 7:56 am

1. Either your link’s bad, or they’ve put up a paywall.

2. I confess I’m a bit surprised at how well the Democrat Party plan of emulating their, um, “successes”, in California on a national scale has worked nationally, election-wise.

3. I mean, there’s no better slam-dunk example of anti-middle-class policies than what the Dems have done to that state. And yet those of us who have fled its rotting corpse seem to have done nothing but turn previously red states blue. Probably CA would have been better than Greece as a warning for where we don’t want to go, but I have no doubt that would have been slammed as racist, so what can you do?

4. Mitt’s surely a great guy, but he was clearly the guy with the wrong resume for the times.

5. Poor Obama sure will be inheriting an awful mess come January, no?

6. Where the GOP goes from here is tough to say. Luckily for me I’m not a member of the GOP, so I can worry about other things. Would someone like Rand Paul really expand the vote any? Doesn’t seem likely. Will folks be any more amenable to the party message given four more years of economic disaster? Seems sadly less than certain.

Brian
November 7th, 2012 | 8:47 am

I forget what number I was at above, but I see that it looks like Obama got fewer votes than McCain did in 2008, which is amazing because it means he lost roughly 10 million votes. I think most of us would have said yesterday morning that if that were true, Mitt would win going away. But of course Mitt got even fewer than McCain’s universally derided campaign, which is just pathetic. I guess that the crushingly horrible economy and the miserably negative campaign turned off people all across the spectrum (“Mitt Romney isn’t one of us” was never meant to attract voters to Obama, it was always just meant to suppress turnout, as negative campaigning always does). Far more Obama voters stayed home, but too many on the right half as well.