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Analysis: Four More Years

Glenn242 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:17 AM
Sarah Palin sure looked bad last night. She needs some meds.
Lars795 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:25 AM
Back to Alaska, work on declaring itself separated from the US. Of course along with Texas. Let California open it's borders to Mexico and the states next to it wall it off. And when terrorists nuke the cities on the east coast, oh well.
mary anne24 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:23 AM
I listened to her and as usual she was correct.
Chestertonfan Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:21 AM
Wanna see bad, look at Hillary.
Lance6161 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:26 AM
jimmylynn Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:40 AM
Henry VIII Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:19 AM
The reality of our socialist future and the consequences that it will bring, will do that to people who get 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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