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To: MestaMachine; All

“....................................So the bottom line is this: Just to make up the racial swing in the popular vote, the GOP would have had to double their gains among independents, winning 56 percent.

How many hundreds of millions would conservatives and Republicans have to give the consultants to pull that rabbit out of the hat? If we know anything about how consultant operate, they’ll let us know soon enough.

Here’s a terrifying idea for Republican politicians, pollsters, pundits and voters to think about: The 2012 presidential election was effectively over as quickly as it began because the Republican consulting class’ reasoning — and, thereby, entire strategy — was based on denying that 2008 ever happened.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the ethnic makeup of this land is changing, and will continue to change, just as it has since before the United States was founded. Simply put, Spanish-language ads and Facebook updates are helpful, but Republicans have a choice to either make a genuine, long-term, and concerted effort to reach out to minority voters, or to follow the consultants’ lead and find shelter in demographic delusions.

Which pill the GOP will swallow likely depends on who is put in charge of explaining to the donors and politicians the cold blast of reality on Nov. 6, 2012. If it is the folks who rely on data, the GOP may have a future in this country. But if the same folks who ran the 2012 campaigns are in charge of explaining what went wrong — as they would surely like to be — the GOP’s flag is headed for the ash heap of history, and conservatives and libertarians will have to find another banner.”

http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/08/how-consultants-lost-the-election-as-soon-as-it-began/


7 posted on 12/08/2012 3:50:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Who cares what the Whig Party does? It is time for a SECOND political force to counter the totalitarian hold that the LIBs and thier enablers.Ironically, it is 9bambi himself who has told us what to do: “Get in their face”. No Mr. nice Guy; no playing by some rules; and no silence.

Every time the LIBs hold near-totalitarian power, we find ourselves in a war. WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, evan Iraq and Afghanistan could not have happened without the LIBs.


10 posted on 12/08/2012 4:31:52 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
the Republican consulting class’ reasoning — and, thereby, entire strategy — was based on denying that 2008 ever happened.

Mark my words, 2016 will be a repeat. Like liberals everywhere, they never learn.

35 posted on 12/08/2012 9:27:16 AM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

As importantly, they acted as if 2010 never happened. Or as if it happened because the GOPe replaced Steele with Priebus, and not because of the TEA Party movement.


41 posted on 12/08/2012 3:13:00 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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