Obama didn’t win by a landslide. Even with the Republican candidate that the Democrats picked. The Democrats were running ads on a black network telling blacks to “Vote as if your life depends on it!” What kind of ad can they run after that? I suppose they could run ads of guys wearing white sheets hanging black people, but that might be too much for even Robert Redford.
The Democrats pulled off a win. Big deal. They don’t have a lock on the next election.
“Understand yourself and understand your opponents, and in one hundred battles, you will not be defeated.”
We were defeated. Obviously, we didn’t understand our voters or the Democrat voters or both.
Elections aren’t horseshoes or hand grenades. Regardless of the margin, Obama won.
We do have to understand our enemies, and the first step is understanding who they are. The Progressives in the GOP are just as much of an enemy as the Progressives in the DNC.