Posted on 11/18/2012 3:46:44 PM PST by reaganaut1
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — By now, voters here are over the initial shock. The ranchers, businessmen and farmers across this deep-red state who knew, just knew that Americans would never re-elect a liberal tax-and-spender president have grudgingly accepted the reality that voters did just that.
But in the days since the election, a blanket of baffled worry has descended on conservatives here like early snow across the plains, deepening a sense that traditional, rural and overwhelmingly white states in the center of the country are losing touch with an increasingly diverse and urban American electorate.
“It’s a fundamental shift,” said Khale Lenhart, 27, a lawyer here. “It’s a mind-set change — that government is here to take care of me.”
As the share of white voters — and white men, specifically — shrank in this election, exit polls showed that turnout grew among black, Hispanic and Asian voters, who supported President Obama and more than compensated for his losses among whites. An analysis by the Pew Research Center found that minority voters made up 28 percent of the electorate, up from 26 percent in 2008, a proportion expected to grow.
“Welcome to the next America,” said Paul Taylor, executive vice president at Pew. “Whatever that vote looked like this year, four years from now it’ll be more so, and eight years from now it’ll be even more so.”
None of this assures election wins for Democrats. The tide of minority voters that helped elect Mr. Obama in 2008 ebbed just two years later in a welter of populist anger over deficits, job losses and Mr. Obama’s agenda, allowing Republicans to retake the House and make gains in the Senate in the midterm elections. And there is no guarantee that the next Democratic presidential candidate will match Mr. Obama’s huge margins
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That’s all true, but it’s still only a tiny minority of parents and children who go that route. The vast majority still get thrown to the tender mercies of the government indoctrination centers and are babysat by unsupervised tv watching and “music” listening, with predictable results. I know too many couples with children, both parents working though one salary would suffice for the basics, because they refuse to live beneath a certain standard by sacrificing toys and having the latest widget, for one parent to stay home and be the primary force in shaping their children and the nation’s future.
Some have said to me that they will talk to their kid at dinner and “undo” the indoctrination. Really? 30 minutes-1hr of dinner talk will undo the app 8 hrs of indoctrination their children receive 5 days a week, 9 months a year? And that’s even before the children enter their teens when peer pressure is stronger than any other, including parental.
It's not "changing demographics". It's vote fraud, plain and simple.
Don't buy what the media is selling.
It's pretty obvious that the Democrats cheated six ways from Sunday in Wisconsin. Scott Walker stomped Barrett in June; 5 months later Romney stomped Scott Walker's vote totals.
Strangely, Obama in turn stomped Romney's vote totals. Romney's totals were around Walker's totals, averaging 5-10% higher. Obama's totals averaged 40-50% higher than Barrett's in every county. GOTF.
There are, of course, all sorts of people, but time and science can change everything ~ we’ve already reached the point where we need FEWER TEACHERS.
I don’t need the New York Times to chronicle the demise of conservatism.
The New York Times is the entity that is dying—not conservatism.
Look, folks, Obama won the election—maybe by demographics, maybe by fraud, maybe by a better GOTV, or perhaps a combination thereof....
The fact is, he didn’t win by the same margin he did in 2008...and no matter what, the bloom is off the lily.
He is the worst. We are experiencing Jimmy Carter’s third term...Obamugabe is highly unpopular.
Look at Rasmussen. He is using a D+6 sample for his poll now, to get an “election-like” result. Obama is still at a remarkably bad -6 or -7.
My point is: Obama may have won re-election but he isn’t frickin’ Superman.
I do understand the fear of an electorate willing to put this guy in—and that is indeed a problem.
I agree with those who are saying we really MUST increase our efforts to educate ALL Americans about our philosophy of freedom...as opposed to the cradle-to-grave nanny state.
Let’s not lose heart.
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-gop-wont-challenge-vote-fraud.html
A shocking and very sensible explanation of how Democrat voter fraud took the election. Except for this reply, why haven't you received any replies?
I'll believe it when they go Right To Work!
Eventually the Democrats will consist mostly of sociopaths ~ who think nothing of killing others. That's when we must be prepared to deal with them in other venues than politics.
Florida accepts a credit card as a voter ID.
http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/voter-id.aspx#fl
Look at the electoral map, Healy. The Democrats gained nothing they didn’t force upon us by urban vote fraud.
You want to address my actual post rather than posting links reiterating what you said earlier?
11 states have voter ID laws. 4 voted for Obama.
I fit in only one place.
“Galts Gultch”
Have Pre Prepared and settled in over 3 years ago. I saw this day coming because I can NOT trust any of you to do the right thing and that is to fight when necessary.
You would rather wimp out and accept defeat than do what is necessary for posterity.
“In short, we are looking at the end of the Democrat party.”
Hm...I hope you are right, but when the majority of people in this country reelect a man like Obama, that means they are voting for Santa Claus, as Rush says. How do you overcome that type of immaturity and ignorance???
“By my count, the voter ID states, for the 2012 election, were Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, South Dakota, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Tennessee, and New Hampshire.”
Connecticut also has voter ID (has had it for some time), and Obama won easily here.
It’s less about fraud than it is about changing voter demographics and preferences. A growing cohort of Euro-American voters (along with minority voters) shows little interest in voting for either conservatism or Republican candidates.
A prime example are the “ladyparts voters”, who broke for Obama to the tune of 68%. What conservative ideas are going to lure them to the fold?
There are no easy answers to the dilemma that conservatives and Republicans face in America.
The nation is now divided. The red states seem to be growing redder. Conversely, the blue states are growing bluer and more leftist.
For a comparable time in our nation’s history, think back to Reconstruction, when a radical group of politicians in Washington forcibly took control of the governments of the southern states, leaving the vanquished Southerners from having much say in their own governance.
Substitute conservatives in America today, in place of the ex-Rebels in the South in those old days. How to preserve their lives, their culture?
The only long-term solution I see might be for the red states to take preliminary steps towards the creation of an independent “coalition of states” to collectively resist the efforts to subjugate them by the federal government in Washington. Such steps must be trod carefully (doesn’t the Constitution proscribe compacts between the states?), but nevertheless, they MUST be taken, with an intent that if a national collapse comes, the red states can then assert their efforts together for the rebuilding. Kind of a “nation within a nation”, so to speak.
Call it the “invisible empi....” no, wait, scratch that.
How about “the invisible compact”?
Voter fraud won this.
Yes, but only the kinds of parents who are invested in their child’s education already will be the ones to make use of these new routes. The children who have already fallen behind, with total parent UNinvolvement being one factor, won’t be the kinds of parents who seek these new methods, they don’t even bother to make use of the present ones, and I believe that these kinds of parents are the majority.These parents see school as a place to dump their kids for as many hours as they can manage, and their only involvement in their kid’s education is to come to the school to threaten and blame everyone except themselves and their kid for their kid’s failure, even when they’ve never even bothered to know if the kid has homework and has finished it, much less done it correctly and learned anything. They couldn’t help if they wanted to, because they themselves are sub-literate.
Anyway, for the few parents who understand that if their child is to get an education and not indoctrination, homeschooling is the way to go. I know there are excellent teachers out there who want to make a difference, but they are shackled by so many government regulations, class sizes, being forced to deal with unruly or deliquent students who make life hell for the teachers and other students, that’s it’s a miracle if any children learn AND escape the indoctrination.
Homeschooling solves all these problems at once, AND leaves the parents their God-given right to raise up their children in the way they should go. If that means Christian parents can teach their kids that homosexuality is against their Biblical beliefs, they can do that, without peer pressure or the homosexual agenda undermining their efforts.
Good point.
Democrats vote the people who don’t show up to vote. Voter ID will help but it’s only part of the answer.
” - - - - the election vindicated conservative politicians and commentators who talked about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax, about makers and takers. - - - “
Yup.
BTW, since only half of the voter pool voted, the Obama voters who want their children and grandchildren to pick up the tab on the new National Debt are 52 % of those voting, and 52 % / 2 = 26 % of the voter age pool.
IOW, just over 1 out of 4 have chosen how the US Federal Government is going to smash and trash us for the next 4 years.
We fit in all of those offices stolen from us. LORD God help us to know where to go from here, please, in Jesus Holy Name.
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