It's funny that you hear not a peep about cracking the black vote in all the articles about Latinos being wooed by Republicans. If you concede that blacks vote for a certain reason democrat why can't it also be true for latinos to a lesser degree.

All this analysis doesn't look at issues. It doesn't look at Obama machine which has been formulated since 2008 to win swing states. The democrats start over building a new messiah and after 8 years of Obama I think he will have Bush's popularity or I think worse. At the midway mark of 2004 Bush was still in an afterglow of handling 9/11. Obama rode the first black presidency to get a pass on failure. Why would the public eelct another Democrat in his wake? To prove what? To help Obama's legacy how? It will be close but losing 3% of the vote is very possible after 8 years of failure. Some new democrat (Hilliary) isn't going to have an easy time of "Do you want more of this?"

Yuo barely won in an election that Obama was at the to of the ticket. I would say your trend isn't a trend at all. With all the factors in your favor you barely won. West will win it back in 2014.

I say just run again when the Obama vote machine is out of the way Col. West and you will win the seat back in 2014.

Black panthers will have the opposite effect this time. White voters are just reminded that Obama was a racial fraud in 2008.

As far as I know the executive priveledge could be repealed if Romney wins which it appears he will. Then the DOJ's emails don't belong to Holder and Obama starting Jan 20th. I think history is going to show that along with Benghazi Obama wasn't just Jimmy Carter. He was Jimmy Carter's stupidity compined with Nixon on steroids behind everyone's back. Not even the liberal press will be able to defend his presidency.

If you go over to HuffPo and read their thoughts it is apparent they don't get any news outside what the Democrat party feeds them.

The Minneapolis Star and Tribune poll (a liberal poll if there ever was one) this Sunday morning has Obama 47 Romney 44. Only 3 point lead and Obama under 47% as an incumbent. Bad news for Obama. The undecideds break away from him and he loses in MN.

So since Romney didn't have a personal roledex of female government specialist coming from the private sector and needed help finding the best and the brightest he must have hated women BEFORE he got to be Governor. That about the logic dummie?

I have a BS in Statistics and a BS in Math. Reading through the interviews the pollsters are definitely hiding something when they won't address Hugh's question on the limit of Party identification. If you haven't done Math by contract, you might never have run into this please the customer effect. I would mention Global Warming in the same category. Don't forget Gallup had some bad polls and Axelrod told them they needed to come to the WH and explain THEIR methodology. Oh please, if there is nothing going on you don't summon pollsters to the WH and suddenly sent the DOJ after them over billing.

Sorry to inject race but I have seen numbers where white and Asian US children are on par with the world which points out 2 things. 1) Numerically we are still putting enough elite Math and Science students that are just not diverse 2) It shows the real problem is Latino and Black students in a combination of their cultures and the teacher's union which as a white Republican I can't do anything about.