Posted on 11/18/2012 10:32:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
To an immigrant such as myself (not the undocumented kind, but documented up to the hilt, alas), one of the most striking features of Election Night analysis was the lightly worn racial obsession. On Fox News, Democrat Kirsten Powers argued that Republicans needed to deal with the reality that America is becoming what she called a "brown country." Her fellow Democrat Bob Beckel observed on several occasions that if the share of the "white vote" was held down below 73 percent, Mitt Romney would lose. In the end, it was 72 percent, and he did. Beckel's assertion – that if you knew the ethnic composition of the electorate you also knew the result – turned out to be correct.
This is what less-enlightened societies call tribalism: for example, in the 1980 election leading to Zimbabwe's independence, Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU-PF got the votes of the Ndebele people while Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF secured those of the Shona – and, as there were more Shona than Ndebele, Mugabe won. That same year America held an election, and Ronald Reagan won a landslide victory. Nobody talked about tribal vote shares back then, but had the percentage of what Beckel calls the "white vote" been the same in 2012 as it was in 1980 (88 percent), Mitt Romney would have won in an even bigger landslide than Reagan. The "white vote" will be even lower in 2016, and so, on the Beckel model, Republicans are set to lose all over again.
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The rancid legacy of Ted Kennedy is ruining the USA. He sponsored the legislation that “reformed” our immigration policy to admit fewer Europeans and more third worlders. What a disaster!
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Mark Steyn helped by calling Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution a “technicality” and refusing to report on Obama’s eligibility when it could have made a difference.
Why, yes, if Mitt would have won, the GOPe would have immediately....
Hummm, let me think here. Sealed the borders? No. Reduced spending? No. Defund ANY department? Naw, that’s not it.
Jack shit? Most probable. Continued on with the same shell game? HELL, yeah!
Like most of ‘em, they’re cheerleaders for the establishment; big tent/ideas instead of slamming them daily for a job UNDONE. Look how Rubio’s name is being bandied about already for ‘14/’16....sad
Early in the evening on election night, I noticed that even the ‘Romney vs. 0bama’ Yahoo poll was frozen. Didn’t move at all.. Hmmmmm.. Romney had 57%, Obama 43%.. Hmmmmmm..
You know for a fact there would’ve been a hiring frenzy and increase in productivity in this country like never before seen in our history. Instead of four more years of consumer malaise and a continued assault by 0bama on the private sector, we’d seen a renewed confidence in America and our leadership again. Our military could once again be proud instead of being CRAPPED on by a foreigner who does not respect them. Just Romney being in office without even doing anything would’ve been 1000 times better than a Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien who’s hellbent on leaving America in shambles.
I believe biz would have waited a bit before blowing their $$ wad to see what Congress and the ‘new’ prez would have done....maybe a bump. As I put no faith in the GOPe, I don’t think the honeymoon would have lasted too long.
Sorry to disappoint, but if you believe Mitt and the House would have done anything to for consumer confidence or leadership (I give you Boeher as a prime example just now...SOME leadership), I think you’re smoking what’s in Colorado.
Military...sure, proud of the CiC again.
Guess one of three ain’t too bad, but believing utopia would spring because a NE liberal under the (R) flag made it into the office; Mitt was just as likely to kick us while we’re done. O would do the same and piss on our heads for good measure. I don’t see how the former would be welcome as much as the former.
Well, agree to disagree. Real or IMAGINED ‘pro-business’ president, Romney would’ve triggered a massive hiring boom felt loud and clear across the nation. NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
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