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Analysis: Four More Years

acastillo Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 10:46 AM
LOL oh boy. Hey Guy, didnt you say one side would be proven dramatically wrong or something???? Now I have to go see Katie Pavlich rant, and then have a nice cup of tea :)
Henry VIII Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 10:50 AM
This isn't a trophy at the end of a ballgame.....you just put the final nail in America's coffin....and you own it.

A few stray thoughts and observations in the aftermath of the 2012 election -- on substance, process, and tactics:

(1) The polls were broadly right, both at the state and national levels -- a dichotomy that I believed to be unlikely in the extreme as recently as yesterday morning.  The electorate ended up being D+6, nearly on par with 2008, and six points better than the 2010 midterms.  I was wrong about this, as were a good number of other observers.  The 2012 party ID figures from Gallup and Rasmussen upon which my assumptions were based were...

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