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No Mandate: Obama Lost Ground With Key Demographics

TunTavern Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 4:51 PM

The GOP will eventually morph into modern day democrats. And the modern day democrats will morph into something further left. And in the deep south and midwestern states we'll see a party made up of Tea Party and Christian Coalition types. (They won't be national players, but will win regional contests.) So we'll still have multiple parties.

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No Mandate: Obama Lost Ground With Key Demographics

There are important lessons to be learned from the results of the 2012 presidential election about the shape of the electorate and how Americans voted. And it might not be what you think.

Overall, many, many fewer Americans turned out to vote. 2008 was a high-water mark for turnout in what may have been an anomaly. President Obama received seven million fewer votes nationwide, but it wasn't a case of the President losing voters to his Republican challenger - Mitt Romney won more than one million fewer votes than John McCain as well.

Some of the much-vaunted demographic advantages...

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