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Analysis: Four More Years

rauljg69 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 1:26 PM
Conservatism slowly dying out...just when you thought 2010 was telling you otherwise. Gay marriage passing, smoking weed passing recreationally passing, liberals being elected everywhere. What's going on???? Here in Florida..shot down attempt to override Obamacare, shot down stricter abortion laws, shot down public funding for religious school...the people arent that conservative after all..maybe center right...but you all are so far right you are off the map.
weedwam Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 1:38 PM
Next we'll have crack and Heroin.
Summers Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 1:35 PM
With the number of exemptions being given out by The One, ObamaCare will soon be the exception, not the rule of law for most.
wmou Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 1:34 PM
Govt dependents are now a large majority.
byeBarry Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 1:32 PM
No morals or values, idiot teat suckers, commies and just plain sicko's!

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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