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MEDIA Led Americans On That This Was a "Close" Election, When In Reality, This Race Was Never Close | |
| Thor's Hamster Offer Upgrade  User ID: 1248699  United States11/07/2012 01:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Thor's Hamster (OP) User ID: 1248699 United States11/07/2012 01:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: MEDIA Led Americans On That This Was a "Close" Election, When In Reality, This Race Was Never Close Up to 25% of Evangelicals didn't vote this election, because Romney was MORMON. Evangelicals are the bane of this country's existence in so many ways. And unfortunately, Evangelicals make up 1/3 of those who vote Republican. An amazing, sobering, and sad statistic. Apollo astronauts couldn't have passed through Van Allen's Belt. Van Allen wore suspenders. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27177977 United States11/07/2012 01:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14564403 United States11/07/2012 01:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: MEDIA Led Americans On That This Was a "Close" Election, When In Reality, This Race Was Never Close Race was close, but key states like CO, IA, NV broke for Obama. Quoting: Super Bowl Dave Romney made a late push to give himself a chance, but was well behind for six months up until then. Did you see his rallies up until the last month? Tepid. Ran a poor campaign, was a generally poor candidate (1%'er in this climate? No way), and never overcame the likeability gap. Portman would have been a better pick for VP. GOP utterly failed to court Latinos. Martinez or Rubio also better VP picks. GOP bombed in courting Latinos in NV, for instance, I know, cuz I'm here, and they sucked at it. Christie would have easily won. A clean, likable moderate in the Republican party would have easily won (can't think of one, there's gotta be one more). You can add scaring women(abortion) and implying that 47% of Americans are shit. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5074893 United States11/07/2012 02:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: MEDIA Led Americans On That This Was a "Close" Election, When In Reality, This Race Was Never Close Race was close, but key states like CO, IA, NV broke for Obama. Quoting: Super Bowl Dave Romney made a late push to give himself a chance, but was well behind for six months up until then. Did you see his rallies up until the last month? Tepid. Ran a poor campaign, was a generally poor candidate (1%'er in this climate? No way), and never overcame the likeability gap. Portman would have been a better pick for VP. GOP utterly failed to court Latinos. Martinez or Rubio also better VP picks. GOP bombed in courting Latinos in NV, for instance, I know, cuz I'm here, and they sucked at it. Christie would have easily won. A clean, likable moderate in the Republican party would have easily won (can't think of one, there's gotta be one more). a Christie/Nikki Haley ticket would have killed Obama. a Rubio/David Petreus ticket would have killed Obama Hell, as much ridicule as I heaped on Rick Perry for his choke-job during a debate ----- I think as a VP candidate if he was paired with either a Rubio, a Petreus or a Christie, he would have brought the Evangelicals, but also more Latinos than Romney becauyse Perry's surprisingly "compassionate" stance....and still would have been able to tout his "job creator" -- but WITHOUT the "Top 1% Wall-Street elitist" aura that ended up burrying Mitt Romney. Petreus-Perry (assuming that he hadn't run for Pres but only selected as VP) Christie-Haley Rubio-Ryan There were some permunations that Obama would have been in trouble against. But sadly as you know, 2 things happened that changed the whole freakin dynamic: 1) Obama kills Bin Laden. Rubio, Christie, Petreus, Jeb Bush, Mitt Daniels, Paul Ryan all pee their collective pantalones and decided not to even run. 2) That only leaves Romney and Perry to save the day. Tea Party AND Ron Paul wings got way too much influence on GOP decision-making, thus making Romney in particular have to "go way right" --- which killed him a year later in the General election with single women, minorities and young folk. The fucking nightmare. 15 months nomination process. A billion dollar campaign. And all for naught. |
| truthwillsetyoufreeagain User ID: 23952927 United States11/07/2012 02:16 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: MEDIA Led Americans On That This Was a "Close" Election, When In Reality, This Race Was Never Close The bottom line is that obozo won far fewer votes than the last time. It's evenly divided. He has no mandate but he will ignore that fact and act like dictator/king. That won't be very smart of him but he'll do it any way.  ______________ As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.” - Elijah Parish Lovejoy(1802-1837) All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent...Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government...Thomas Jefferson When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty...Thomas Jefferson Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light...George Washington |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1421478 United States11/07/2012 02:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: MEDIA Led Americans On That This Was a "Close" Election, When In Reality, This Race Was Never Close Race was close, but key states like CO, IA, NV broke for Obama. Quoting: Super Bowl Dave Romney made a late push to give himself a chance, but was well behind for six months up until then. Did you see his rallies up until the last month? Tepid. Ran a poor campaign, was a generally poor candidate (1%'er in this climate? No way), and never overcame the likeability gap. Portman would have been a better pick for VP. GOP utterly failed to court Latinos. Martinez or Rubio also better VP picks. GOP bombed in courting Latinos in NV, for instance, I know, cuz I'm here, and they sucked at it. Christie would have easily won. A clean, likable moderate in the Republican party would have easily won (can't think of one, there's gotta be one more). The GOP should never have to "court" Latinos. Nobody invited them into the country. They've never done anything for White Americans. The discussion is always, always framed from the point of view of this inevitable "browning" that must be "catered to" instead of real action to destroy it. |
