2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Joe Scarborough calls Nate Silver an ideologue and joke. Silver responds on PBS (with video) [View all]WCGreen
(45,558 posts)news because he was inside the machine, pal.
They are cock sure of themselves because they have had success at the polls which validates the high opinion of themselves. It's a heady feeling to win an election to know that you have been proven better than the other guy or gal.
Believe me, I know. I won a primary election, I crushed the guy. You can't believe what that feels like.
But then again, I am a realists and I purposely erased all of that nonsense out of my head and started from scratch.
Anyway, Scar is a typical politician who had everything going his way. I don't know why he quit but he did and he knows he left on top of his game. Now I hear he is thinking about running for the GOP nomination. Good luck to him. Hs ego will come rushing down to the ground especially when he no longer has his forum every morning.
When Obama wins next week, the long knifes on the left will be out. The Democrats have a lot of eager people who want to continue the Democrats in the Oval Office. And it will be easier because the GOP is losing their base as their big guns start to die off and or retire.
Things are going to be different in 2016 especially if things are still in a state of flux as far as the economy, environment and energy solutions go. These are the man issues that are coming at us fast and we need a left leaning centrist to grab hold of the opportunity of change that president Obama started and run with it into the 2020's.