[RobbyS]

IMHO, the whole reboot thing is part of the strategy by Rove et al. to make us forget that 1) they chose a poor candidate, 2) misspent a huge wad of money, and 3) were outfoxed by Obama.

[Impy]

Post-mortems always go overboard.

After 2004 I remember a political cartoon showing “Congressional Democrat” in a museum next to a dinosaur.

#1 Rule in politics, things change.

[Pelham]

“After all, the demographic changes in that election were more attributable to a surprisingly large number of white voters staying home (fewer whites voted last year than in 2004, despite steady growth in absolute numbers) than to any rapid growth in minority votes. “

Steve Sailer has written about this extensively, long before this last election.

[justiceseeker93]

I can't for the life of me figure out why allegedly, according to this exit poll, men are only 47% of the electorate, women 53%. What's gotten to the men of this country that they don't show up to vote? Traditionally, men as a group were more interested in politics than women. So do these numbers represent some wussification factor? Or was the exit polling sampling a bit biased toward women because they were slightly more likely to cooperate with the (predominantly female) exit pollsters. (I seem to recall that exit pollsters' oversampling of women early on Election Day in 2004 gave raise to false MSM reports that Kerry was beating Bush handily.)

At any rate, male participation in these elections seems to be decreasing with time. Attracting more men to the polls will, in general, help the GOP cause (gender gap, stupid), but I'm sure the RNC isn't interested in such efforts because they're afraid of being called sexist if they go in that direction.

[firebrand]

This is what I have said. When we repeat the Dem propaganda about us and endlessly try to reassess ourselves in public, we are actually repeating the charges and making them stick. Cut it out, everybody. Talk about it in private with fellow Republicans but not out here where even extragalactics are reading it.