Well, well.....it was about race.
Hispanics and blacks turned out in droves for Obama. Then there were the youth and white single women (many educated) who added to his chorus.
Strongest GOP support came from middle-aged and elderly white men, many of whom will be dead by 2016.
Which means, of course, that unless the GOP somehow reinvents itself, the growing minorities will continue to swamp the white male vote and condemn it to decades in the wilderness.
Last edited by Awryly; 11-07-2012 at 06:39 AM.
Come sit down beside me I said to myself
And although it doesn't make sense
I held my own hand as a small sign of trust
And together I sat on the fence
Anon. Very anon.
Don't care what it was about, just glad the Vulture gut and run Capitalist, Legitimate Rape only, Coaltion, did not seize control of the White House.
Still got the Confederate South Conservatives in the other house to deal with. Same obstructionism no doubt, will prevent any kind of progress.
I see one of Fox's premier goats, Dick Morris, who predicted a Romney landslide, has made exactly the same observations and reached the same conclusion with the benefit of hindsight reality has forced on him.
Which is that if the GOP doesn't change, it will never win an election.
Last edited by Awryly; 11-07-2012 at 06:35 AM.
Come sit down beside me I said to myself
And although it doesn't make sense
I held my own hand as a small sign of trust
And together I sat on the fence
Anon. Very anon.
Last edited by Awryly; 11-07-2012 at 06:27 AM.
Come sit down beside me I said to myself
And although it doesn't make sense
I held my own hand as a small sign of trust
And together I sat on the fence
Anon. Very anon.
In a brilliant acceptance speech, Obama had to take a messianic tone in an attempt to achieve some, any, unity in the US. Even Romney was conciliatory,
Both recognise that the US's divisions run deep, probably too deep.
No politician in any other country in the West would feel the need for such biblical rhetoric.
If that speech had been delivered in NZ, we would all looked at one another and said "Eh? What?" in thoroughly bemused undertones.
But it is, sadly, the sort of speech America needs and has to have.
Come sit down beside me I said to myself
And although it doesn't make sense
I held my own hand as a small sign of trust
And together I sat on the fence
Anon. Very anon.
That's because no other western nation aside from Canada was insane enough to allow such a thing to occur. Multiculturalism is a failure and multiracial societies have permanent faultlines. Europeans (and Kiwis) have rejected it although their handlers still largely insist on the American model.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Peter1469 (11-07-2012)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist