First, I did not sit home. I voted for...Romney. But, perhaps 0bama having a second term is indeed worth it. Won't be easy and now it is before us...but it is time to ask enough of the right questions and we have a good start to gaining the right answers.
0bama should have been defeated in a freakin' landslide. He wasn't...why?
Was it because our candidate was soooo bad or was it because the democrat message was soooo much better?
You may want to blame those that stayed home, but if it should have been a landslide...the stay at home vote nor the protest vote should have mattered. So...what did matter?
This failure rests with two groups. The GOPe and the GOP loyalists. The candidate sucked and ...the message from the groundgame sucked.
We lost because of demographics—simple as that. We have reached a tipping point as the Dems are on their way to becoming the permanent majority party. CA is the canary in the coal mine. The US will look like CA in 2050 demographically.
I don’t our our candidate sucked. I think he failed to motivate the more emotional voters. Mitt’s arguments were generally reasoned ones and presented in a clear way. What was lacking was an emotional component to the arguments. Regan was good at it. If we got better at it, that vision thing, we could motivate some of our adversaries to join us.