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Analysis: Four More Years

Jack3626 Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 10:50 AM
Duh, four more years means we've got four more years of economic uncertainty coupled with four more years of government expansion and welfare increases. We've gone past the tipping point - it's over - just sit back and read about Moochelle's next vacation and Barry's next golf game while they turn over our future to the UN.

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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