To be honest, Romney very well could have won had he run a better campaign and selected a different running mate. Paul Ryan is no extremist but someone like Portman could have given him the edge in Ohio.

But their were plenty of other things that prevented Romney from winning. Mitt is a moderate in my mind, but the whole image of the Republican party is very villianized at the moment. Combine that with the fact that Obama is much more likeable than Romney to the average person. It's like PB said, the guy is a mope.

The GOP has to realize this country is too diverse to run on the white vote anymore. They need someone with charisma and moderate policies (who can specify them better) to run in 2016, and if Santorum is in that last of candidates they are fucked.

Great post, JoeSchmo .

Oops.

Romney's transition website

Thanks PB And just like everyone else here I want the President to succeed, I want the USA to succeed. But in order for that to happen President Obama must move toward the middle just like the House has to move towards the middle. It can't be super left or super right or we will see a repeat of the previous four years.

I was literally just on the verge of posting that JL..

I understand that "Mormons for Bachmann 2016" will be taking over that URL.

I don't think Romney lost the election so much as Obama won it. The exit polls show that Obama matched or exceeded his winning margin with the groups he won with in 2008. Unfortunately for the Republicans they got high on their own supply of thinking that 2008 was a fluke. It wasn't. The Republicans didn't think minority voters would come out again. They did. And they didn't think young voters of any group would come out again. They did. Rasmussen and Rove were full of it.

59% of the white vote used to be enough to win the Presidential election. It no longer is. It is going to take some time for Republicans to process that information. It is questionable as to whether they are capable of changing policies or at the very least changing the marketing of those policies. I hope that they do. Either way it will be an entertaining thing to watch. If they don't then they had better get used to losing presidential elections.

But changing demographics aside, the Republicans lost the Rust Belt and Upper Midwest which has not yet seen the sort of population shifts that took place in California, the Southwest and NY. Tons of whites in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and other areas that have Republican governors turned out to vote for Obama. Part of the reason was the auto bailout and especially the lies that a desperate Romney told about Jeeps and China.

The Republicans have catered to a shrinking base and have allowed themselves to be painted/acted as racist 1%'ers who would drive over their grandmother to pick a nickel off the road. You simply can't go around calling the President a skinny ghetto crackhead or say 47% of people aren't sh** or say rape is no big deal or talk about self-deportation and then be surprised when people who may be in one of those groups you just insulted don't vote for you.

As the post-election bitter ugly comments by Nugent, O'Reilly, Trump, Limbaugh, Fred Barnes and others show there is a certain Republican demographic that won't change and can't change. But they'll be dead soon enough. The next crop of Republicans will hopefully be savvier and smarter.

It's evolve or become extinct, Lilo.

Plenty of Republicans aren't extreme or idiotic like tea partiers. But they certainly cater to a dying breed. That has to change for them.

I was a registered Republican from 1984 to 2007. I don't know if they'll ever be moderate enough for me ever again.

Hispanics are the sleeping giants of national politics. In this election, 53% of eligible Hispanic voters pulled levers, compared with 50% four years ago. That's still a smaller percentage of eligible white and black voters (mid to upper 60 percent). Lots to be gained there.

Count on a Hispanic--maybe two--on the major parties' tickets in '16.

Someone's gotta pull their shit together. Get rid of bums like Michelle Bachmann. But I must say I was very satisfied when Joe Donelley beat Murdock in the Senate race. Good job Indiana! There is hope for you yet.

I really think Romney & the entire GOP were shocked that Mitt didn't win. Rove was crunching numbers like crazy, Mitt didn't concede immediately and all the Republican pundits were taken by surprise.

FWIW I heard today on MSNBC that some of the Romney campaign people who left the arena after Mitt lost, couldn't use their campaign credit card for a cab home.


TIS

Just as well..... they got a free ride for a year for doing nothing.

Due to the rise in Latino populations, some people predict Arizona will be in play for the Democrats in 2016, and even Texas by 2020.

Every time she sees Joe Biden, my daughter quotes Joe Clark, "They used to call me Crazy Joe! Now you can call me Batman!"

Ha ha ha!! What's Biden doing? He IS walking like Igor. That's funny.




TIS

Look at this: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4...e=1&theater

jeez.

Fun Fact: 50,000 young Latino U.S. citizens each month reach voting age.

Base: TRAITOR!!!

Hannity: I've 'evolved' on Immigration Reform



http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012...xnwXiDo.twitter

Well good for hannity. Don't like him but it's good to see he can grow up a little

j


Ha ha ha ha!!!!



TIS

That map is scary. Maybe the Electoral College isn't such a bad idea after all .

Btw, anyone know if FL has been called yet (officially?) and if so, that brings President Obama up to what 330ish EVs?




TIS

The electoral college is confusing enough for Americans, I can only imagine how confused the rest of the world is.


TIS

The Romney people are trying to resuscitate Chad before they concede.

Well, if it was up to square foot it was, but then it is based on the population. I mean it's not like Obama didn't get the popular vote as well. He got over 3 million votes more than Romney.

I said I don't like this electoral college system, but it's a good way to have election results fast, for such a huge country like the US, when there's a clear winner and loser. If not, just as popular vote, the electoral college could end up like year 2000.

One of our locals posted that the Willard campaign conceded on Florida.

The President will end with 332 EVs. The only state from '08 he lost was North Carolina, and the other EVs he lost via the Census.

So, in short it IS an EV landslide for Obama after all making Nate Silver right? Last I saw a what, 3mil. popular vote difference??



TIS