Posted on 01/16/2015 7:13:24 AM PST by Din Maker
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results..
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results..
Expect the rats to come out with their old BS about getting rid of the electoral college and go right to a popular vote. The rats are so much smarter than our founders, you know.
Retribution is such an evil beast. (Payback is a b!tch, for those of you in Rio Linda.)
Vote Fraud.
'Nuff said.
Never underestimate the ability of the Stupid Party to cast victory into the jaws of defeat.
Not sure what the author’s point is. He seems to be just dumb.
Those three states with 27 or so electoral votes didn’t make a difference in 2008 or 2012, and they almost certainly won’t in 2016. The familiar ground of Florida and Ohio are much more key.
Especially in mid-term elections. If memory serves the GOP did well in 2010 in terms of picking up seats in the legislature. Two years later the Democrats take the Senate seat and Obama takes the state.
Given one of the first bills the GOP introduced once in power was to raise h1B visa limits I have little faith they can keep their momentum. They honestly either don’t get it or just don’t care.
The Democrats have no choice but to run a Black candidate for President from now on, or they won’t be able to energize their base. Also, if they run a White candidate, they will be accused of racism.
This was a logical bill introduced by the Senate Majority leader and favored by the GOP majority in the House to put us under the district system used by Maine and Nebraska: one electoral vote awarded to the winner of each congressional district, two for the winner statewide.
The GOP had solid majorities in both houses and a governor pledged to sign it while he was still popular.
Gleason's dumbassed excuse: But we can win all 20. His real reason: He'd lose a little clout nationwide. The reality is that the last GOP candidate to carry Pennsylvania was Bush I as Reagan's third term in 1988. It would take 15 or less of our electoral votes to offset the loss of Virginia or Nevada + Colorado and seriously complicate the RAT march to 270.
I don’t often say “look at my tag-line” because it’s rude to, but I’ll say it here.
Note also that Hispanics often will follow the white vote. It DEFINITELY happened in the South last year, and it was why Wendy Davis and EVERY OTHER STATEWIDE CANDIDATE in Texas got blown out of the water (by 20 points, all races).
The white vote alone, although 75% Republican, didn’t get us that margin. It was the 45% Republican HISPANIC VOTE (as opposed to the usual 20-25%). In other words, the Republicans acted conservative in Texas - and by doing so, locked up the white vote. But the Hispanics ALSO liked the message (gay marriage and gun grabbing from the Dems only goes so far in their communities too)...and nearly split their vote down the middle (i.e., were not even a factor).
So the contest, here in Texas (and in some other southern states) ended up being between whites voting as block and blacks voting as a block - and there simply are A LOT MORE whites than blacks (in all states)...so it’s no contest if whites vote as a block.
If the GOP runs a another “not great but not as bad as the other guy” candidate, they will lose again.
If they run someone who people actually want to vote FOR, someone who will generate some enthusiasm, they will win.
“Vote Fraud.
‘Nuff said.”
GOPe.
“Nuff Said.
That, too.
Don’t forget the factor the article doesn’t mention: Hillary.
Eventually, the Ubershrew is going to have to emerge from whatever dark and damp little den in which she’s hiding, and come out and play if she’s planning to run for the White House. What seemed like an electoral surety only six months ago is reduced to speculation as to whether she’d even get the democrat party’s nomination.. current polls be damned.
When she does in fact emerge to sustained sunlight on her record and herself, the public isn’t going to like what it hears or sees. She can get the best plastic surgeon to stretch and iron those wrinkles away, but no facial tuneup is going to mitigate her fingernails-on-chalkboard vocal tone, grating personality and total lack of charisma, along with the fact she is clearly slipping mentally. Her “lost in the fog” moment while making that statement about corporations not creating jobs spoke volumes. The woman is clearly in cognitive decline.
The dems are going to have to pull off one of their most extensive smoke-and-mirrors acts in history to paper over Hillary’s inability to sustain the grueling tempo of a 15- to 18-month campaign.
And BOTH Cleveland and Miami held out their vote count until they knew how many votes they needed to deliver their states to Obama. Get a handle on Dem Vote Fraud or lose the WH forever, Pubbies.
I thought Bill Clinton was our first Black President.
Not going to happen during a Presidential election year when turnout is much higher. Demography is destiny.
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