Posted on 11/08/2012 4:15:09 AM PST by tobyhill
The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speaking, jaggedly split down the middle on the presidency and torn over much else. It seems you can please only half of the people nearly all of the time.
Americans retained the fractious balance of power in re-electing President Barack Obama, a Republican House and a Democratic Senate, altogether serving as guarantors of the gridlock that voters say they despise. Slender percentages separated winner and loser from battleground to battleground, and people in exit polls said yea and nay in roughly equal measure to some of the big issues of the day.
Democracy doesn't care if you win big, only that you win. Tuesday was a day of decision as firmly as if Obama had run away with the race. Democrats are ebullient and, after a campaign notable for its raw smackdowns, words of conciliation are coming from leaders on both sides, starting with the plea from defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney that his crestfallen supporters pray for the president.
But after the most ideologically polarized election in years, Obama's assertion Wednesday morning that America is "more than a collection of red states and blue states" was more of an aspiration than a snapshot of where the country stands.
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Indeed. Shrugging will hit the reset button faster than anything.
It’s gonna be a huge surprise on the day that the check ISN’T in the mailbox, or if it is, no one will honor it,
and the EBT card is “empty”.
“Who gonna feed mah babies!!!”
uh... you are. That’s the way it should be.
It’s over. The Fat Lady has sung her song. This is the last election I will participate in. My vote no longer means anything. The 47% will become 60% in four years. Why waste my time. I have a garden to tend to and food to be canned. I have venison to harvest, prepare, and store. I have bartering to do with my neighbors. I will watch the collapse with interest and prepare my defense against the feral humans and parasites. I will survive.
The only explanation for this election that seems to make sense is that the Democrats have corralled ethnic minorities - blacks, Asians, Latinos, even Muslims. And they continually hurl the “racist” label at conservatives. My thinking is that until we start cultivating this groups and getting some converts, we’re going to lose.
We are reaching a tipping point on looters vs. producers, but that is NOT why Romney lost. He lost because Republicans stayed home. We can and should debate the reasons why, and if they were justified in doing so, but that is why he lost. All of this other stuff is ancillary. Remember back when independents were the key to victory? Not if you don’t get your base out there.
Yahoo! had article after article anti-Romney and pro Obama.
The whole country will be like Appalachia.
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