Sometimes the stars align and people have their moment of success, their tactics and insight fit that particular sliver of time. Rove’s was the 2004 election where he was successful in getting more evangelicals out to vote than people expected. He got Bush re-elected in an atmosphere where the media hated him more than they did Nixon. Since then, for Rove, it’s been mostly down hill. His predictions and whiteboarding are not much more than an average exercise in thinking out loud. He sits on Fox giving no better analysis than many of the more tuned in members here could do. At least Fox got rid of (mostly) Dick Morris, who’s time passed in 90’s. It’s like trying to bring back a winning coach from ages past - you usually just can’t recreate the formula for success because the game has moved on.
That was the year that 56% of Hispanics, who were protestant, voted republican.
Well said. It’s like trying to get Joe Namath back on the field.
Tokyo was confident we’d retain the house in ‘06.