Coda to yesterday's political long-form
Nov. 8th, 2012 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexOK apparently I can't let this pass. The pundits still show up on my radio (I don't watch TV) and make me grind my teeth with their huge helpings of WRONG.
Fact: The Republicans have lost the national popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. (I'm still opposed to changing to a national popular vote system for the reasons given last time.)
Fact: The Republicans got their asses kicked in state-wide contests (Senate races) up and down the line. The pro-rape guys went down in flames even in states that were heavily Romney-positive. The moderate guys either had to run as independents (Maine) or got their asses handed to them (MA). When your candidates' best strategy is to distance themselves from their supposed party that ought to be a giant warning sign.
If these two facts do not convince you, oh misbegotten sons of fleabags, to stop flapping your stupid gums about "close" elections and "divided electorate" then you are seriously continuing to miss the point. The Republicans and their cronies at places like ALEC and the Chamber of Commerce have done a good job of controlling state legislatures and that lets them redistrict to protect their seats and put more teabag nutballs into the House.
But when all is said and done the party of "not Obama" has ceased to be a useful functioning group that is in touch with anything. America is evolving and the "old white guy" plan is a dwindling relic of the past. Romney deliberately gave up on the Big Tent strategy this time around, and it hurt. Even though he veered like a drunk in a sportscar toward the center once the debates started it was never a full-campaign strategy. Romney won electoral opinion on having a better plan, and he got people to trust him (despite the Etch-a-Sketch Big Lie politics) but in the end people felt (by something like an 8:1 ratio) that Obama was more in touch with their daily needs than Thurston Howell the Carpetbagger. And that's how they voted. If the Republicans can't see that's not a "divided" electorate that's an evolving electorate they're doomed to continue losing large-scale contests.
Fact: The Republicans have lost the national popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. (I'm still opposed to changing to a national popular vote system for the reasons given last time.)
Fact: The Republicans got their asses kicked in state-wide contests (Senate races) up and down the line. The pro-rape guys went down in flames even in states that were heavily Romney-positive. The moderate guys either had to run as independents (Maine) or got their asses handed to them (MA). When your candidates' best strategy is to distance themselves from their supposed party that ought to be a giant warning sign.
If these two facts do not convince you, oh misbegotten sons of fleabags, to stop flapping your stupid gums about "close" elections and "divided electorate" then you are seriously continuing to miss the point. The Republicans and their cronies at places like ALEC and the Chamber of Commerce have done a good job of controlling state legislatures and that lets them redistrict to protect their seats and put more teabag nutballs into the House.
But when all is said and done the party of "not Obama" has ceased to be a useful functioning group that is in touch with anything. America is evolving and the "old white guy" plan is a dwindling relic of the past. Romney deliberately gave up on the Big Tent strategy this time around, and it hurt. Even though he veered like a drunk in a sportscar toward the center once the debates started it was never a full-campaign strategy. Romney won electoral opinion on having a better plan, and he got people to trust him (despite the Etch-a-Sketch Big Lie politics) but in the end people felt (by something like an 8:1 ratio) that Obama was more in touch with their daily needs than Thurston Howell the Carpetbagger. And that's how they voted. If the Republicans can't see that's not a "divided" electorate that's an evolving electorate they're doomed to continue losing large-scale contests.
