Posted on 11/27/2012 11:30:27 AM PST by therightliveswithus
All of the above except for his competence.
We are at an inflection point in our nation where the number wanting something is now equal to the number producing something. The last four elections are identical with the exception of a few battleground states shifting around. When the Repubs go Democrat-Lite, they loose. Why go for the lite version when you can have the real thing if you are a voter looking for a handout?
Since elections between the Dems and Democrat-Lite Repubs are now tug-of-wars that boil down to a few hundred thousand votes in a few battleground states, the side that keeps their base engaged and out hustles the other side wins in the close elections. When either party fields a truly weak candidate (McCain / Kerry), the base doesn’t come out and the margin of victory is larger. There is no real significant change in the voting public and no land slide messages or views that have changed over the last 4 elections. Yet,the winners of these periodic tug-of-wars both claim that they have mandates no matter how close the elections. The MSM then goes all in to claim the Repubs were lucky and the public was to stupid to vote for the Dems if the Repubs win, or that the Repubs need to become more like the Dems if they lose. The Repubs lap this crap up and refuse to lead by simply ignoring the Dem propaganda coming out of the MSM regardless of whether they win or lose.
In this election, Obama out hustled Romney in key urban areas in the battleground states and won. Kerry and McCain were weak candidates and they lost easily, Gore and Romney were stronger candidates and they pushed it into “who ran the better election on the ground in getting the vote out” and ultimately lost by narrow margins. From a demographic stand point the urban centers are the homes of those who want something and the rest of the country is the homes of those who produce. Unfortunately, it is easier to run a political machine that gets the vote out in urban centers than vast areas that surround the urban centers. This means the Repubs will most likely lose close elections when they field Democratic-Lite candidates as the urban centers will always vote for the real thing.
You think maybe 16.5 million Obamaphones (with 250 free minutes and texting capabilities) helped with the “ground game”?
It's not the voters' fault that Romney was such a lackluster, plastic candidate, with weather vane principles.
At the very moment that our history demanded a leader in the mold of the Framers, we got George Bush Sr., Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, and John McCain, all rolled into one.
I'm half convinced that the GOP-e threw the race to the Commies on purpose.
obama did not win - he stole the election twice, by voter fraud!
In 2008, the lamestream media, in addition to voter fraud, is the force behind obama stealing the election.
In 2012, voter fraud is what enables obama stealing the election. Even the lamestream media could not brain-wash enough people to help obama steal the election in 2012.
Voter fraud. I refuse to believe Romney got less voted than McCain.
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