ShadowDance

Silver wrote:Притеснителното обаче е, че в тази държава 50% от хората са дали гласа си за някой като Ромни. И Обама на степен Обама да бяха избрали, поне половината население на САЩ е с тежка форма на умствена недостатъчност.

Бе предвид ниския търн аут, де факто не повече от 1/3 от държавата е избрала Ромни, ако и толкова.

Roland wrote:Междувременно, повече хора под 30 са гласували, отколкото над 65 Което аз мисля, че е супер. Легализирахме марихуаната в два щата ебаси ^_^

Roland wrote:Бате, аз никога не съм хейтил по Америка в неадекватната степен, в която хейтите някои тук

now that the GOP's one-term-presidency strategy has failed, allow me to perform an autopsy on its campaign strategies and make 3 predictions about where it will go in the next 4 years.

1) the obstructionism will continue. the GOP-controlled house and -hijacked senate have done everything in their power to keep obama from achieving meaningful reforms -- yet they still managed to avoid major electoral losses and even made advances in some states. if the voters apparently don't mind the GOP's blatant refusal to play ball with the president, why compromise now? so expect more contrarian politics, esp. on economic issues such as the upcoming fiscal cliff.

2) the social conservative amateur hour is over (for now). counting 2010, the GOP has gifted the dems with at least 5 otherwise very winnable senate seats by running socially reactionary yet politically inept candidates (sharron angle, ken buck, christine o'donnell, todd akin, richard mourdock) who
should know better than to say things better suited for 1812. more broadly, the party's overall ideological shift has not translated to electoral gains in the battleground states, but rather managed to piss off many woman and minority voters. catering to its extreme right wing is simply not a mathematically viable strategy, and it's time for the GOP to return to a more palatable platform on social issues. incidentally, unless the tea party can be convinced to come along, establishment GOPers will seek a divorce.

3) jeb bush and/or marco rubio will be on the 2016 ticket. the hispanic population IS the fastest growing demographic in the country and has wielded considerable influence in the last several elections, often to the dems' advantage. it was therefore an extremely stupid decision on romney's part to invoke 'self-deportation', oppose the dream act and gleefully bludgeon perry on national tv over giving in-state tuition status to the children of illegal immigrants, when he should have had more common sense (and spine). to minimize this fatal disadvantage in 2016, the GOP has to field candidates who appeal to hispanic and non- voters alike, will not kowtow to the xenophobic elements of the party, and carries none of romney's political baggage. given the party's current roster, this should be a very short list.

in conclusion, the GOP will have to adapt in order to survive, but don't expect any substantive changes for the better. for a party ideologically anchored in conservatism, it will only do what is minimally necessary to win.

I could sort of care less that we just re-elected Obama, but the fact that multiple state electorates just approved ballot measures in support of ending drug prohibition and the fundamentalist Christian stranglehold on marriage sounds like real progress to me. If he makes a concerted effort to make some progress on both of these issues at the federal level during his second term, I'll have to give him due credit. Whether he'll do that remains to be seen though, especially in regards to drug prohibition, considering his dismal record during his first term.