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In reply to the discussion: I find the scale of the victory somewhat astonishing. [View all]bhikkhu
(10,712 posts)30. A full rejection of the RW nutjob agenda
Advocating extremist policies are one thing when the country's in the crapper, but when things are basically going fine and in the right direction, why would anyone want to take a hammer to it?
That's talking about economics mostly, where the fox bubble was perhaps the strongest - in spite of the full GDP and jobs recovery, steady growth, and the Dow, exports, manufacturing and trade gap numbers, a bunch of them over there think that we are still in the pit of the bush-recession.
The rest is their bone-headed stupid attitudes toward women and minorities. You can't elect a lightly re-branded George Wallace in 2012 - there just aren't that many people backward enough!
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OK. Well, what that might suggest is that they can't win anymore. Ever. Even by cheating.
sibelian
Nov 2012
#16
Romney miscalculated that the electorate looked like it did during the Bush years
bigtree
Nov 2012
#4
I think the policies of the GOP were clearly aimed at the demographics, in a sense.
djean111
Nov 2012
#18
I think Romney's idiotic lie regarding Jeep moving jobs to China had a huge impact,
Tennessee Gal
Nov 2012
#32
I'm no big fan of 'marketing' and 'marketers' but Obama's team did a
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#34