beretta304
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You have to love it. Little more than a month out from the election and the the left is holding a funeral for an entire Party and Ideology because of a fluke of an election...and I don't mean Sandra.
Ebb and flow, my friends...ebb and flow. The GOP will regroup. That you can be sure of.
I've been involved in politics for 30 years. My first vote was for Ronald Reagan.
Nope, this is a lot more serious than you guys think it is.
By all electoral physics, Romney should have won. But the GOP has so alienated minorities, women and working folks that he couldn't win with all these headwinds.
Conversely, the ONLY popular vote the GOP's won in the last 20 years is 2004. By less than 2%. That was with ALL the headwinds in their favor- incumbancy, a ongoing war that wasn't unpopular yet, a decent economy, and a truly awful oppossition candidate. And still the thing was decided by about 80K votes in Ohio because they put homophobia on the ballot in that state.
And I don't see where it gets better for the GOP. They can't win back women without alienating the religious crazies. They can't get back working folks without alienating their rich backers, and they can't make headway with hispanics without alienating the nativists.
The GOP needs a Sister Souljah moment with its base. That's what Clinton did in 1992.
Keep analyzing it for the next 4 years....might as well get a crystal ball.