Republicans only have themselves to thank for systematically alienating every single person in this country who is not white, rich and Christian (evangelical preferred).Actually, if you put all the non-white, non-rich, and non-Christian people in one group, I think you'd get at most 20% of the population. OK, maybe 25%.
If the left thinks that it is going to stay in power by positioning itself as the party opposed to 75% of the country, well, let's just see how that works out for them in the next few years. Obama may be black, but that doesn't mean that "black people won the election." Obama won the election because a lot of white people voted for him in addition to nearly all blacks who voted.
I hope this comment is an indication that the left is going to spiral into a frenzy of identity politics because if it does, the "age of Obama" won't last more than four years (and less if you count them losing Congress in 2010).
Obama won for a whole host of reasons, but mainly because the press did not investigate him because they wanted him elected, and because he was more articulate and energetic than old McCain, who excited no one, and Obama promised the middle class tax breaks just like Clinton did. But just as Clinton did Obama will reneg on those promises once in office. That $250,000 ceiling will be down to $42,000 by the time he’s done with it.
Then Republicans should NEVER stop calling him on it, that he broke his promise. Republicans didn’t hold Clinton responsible for his broken promise, but I hope they learn that they need to do so this time!