2 - The message "You are very important, get high, screw, fight amongst yourselves, music is very important, celebrities are very important, Don't worry we'll handle all the boring stuff for you" is very powerful.
Can anyone name me the last time that the less charismatic, more emotionally detached presidential candidate won? It wasn’t Kerry, Gore, Dole, Dukakis, Mondale or Bush, Sr. against Clinton...
Even Slate agrees that this campaign was not won on the issues, but was won on the fact that the “swing” voters think Obama “feels their pain” more, even though they readily admitted in exit polls that Romney’s policies would be better for the economy. That is the kind of dimwitted, mush-brained, middle-of-the-road voter that seems to always decide presidential elections, at least since suffrage.
http://news.msn.com/politics/how-barack-obama-won-four-more-years
1. Romney simply didn't do enough to make people excited about voting for him.
Take that simple statement, and you can translate it to any demographic group.
"A lot of middle-class white voters didn't support Romney because ..."
"A lot of Hispanic voters didn't support Romney because ..."
"A lot of Christians didn't support Romney because ..."
"A lot of strong conservatives didn't support Romney because ..."
I said early this morning that I suspect a lot of people right here on FreeRepublic -- including many who are gnashing their teeth about this election right now -- never cast a vote for Romney yesterday.
Bottom line is the “swing” voters are too ignorant or dumb to really understand the issues. Their thinking goes something like this, “I don’t really know what issues are important or what should be done about them, so in my ignorance I’m just going to pick the candidate who I feel cares more about me, because I assume he’s more likely to come down on my side of whatever issue comes up.”
8 irrelevant points.......The country has passed the tipping point where conservatism once ruled. Had Reagan been the candidate, he likely would have lost too.......
There is a new voting community out there, young people who have been indoctrinated by our liberal public schools and universities, the third generation of welfare recipients, the growing numbers of environmentalists and the over powerful MSM that is now the propaganda machine for the leftist movement.
As a side note, I sincerely doubt that J. F. Kennedy would even have survived a democrat primary today.............
Our cultural and political values are shifting left and the only way a Republican will ever be able to get elected president is if we start embracing the philosophies that we are staunchly against. Then that defeats everything we stand for..........
1) Those who benefit from the nanny state or illegal immigration voted en masse
2) Too many true conservatives, including evangelicals, stayed at home.
We have a 20 year history of Romney running for office, he sucks, and people don’t like him, he always fails, even against Carter the second.