Originally posted by: deftron
It's like Murder, She Wrote reruns ... eventually your fanbase dies out and it ends
That's another shrinking demographic as a percentage of the electorate.Originally posted by: loki8481
I thought McCain also carried whites, though by smaller margins than Bush?
Originally posted by: deftron
The only age group McCain won was 65+
Obama carried
18-29
30-45
46-65
By the time the next election rolls around, many of the 65+ may not
be around.
It's like Murder, She Wrote reruns ... eventually your fanbase dies out and it ends
Originally posted by: Bitek
The R's are fucked for a while. Barring a huge D disaster, the Dems will control the house for perhaps decades. The Senate will be firm for a while, and all the racist, xenophobic paranoid lamenting the Palineque sentiments has provoked a huge backlash in all the upcoming voter generations and minority blocks.
Who is going to unfuck them from this corner? Palin in 2012? No she's a sign of the problem. A cancer on the R's as David Brooks would say.
The R party will burn itself down in the crucible of extremism and ideological purity, and become less and less relevant. Eventually there will be a transformational figure to turn it around, but the current trajectory does not bode well for many many years.
Originally posted by: Bitek
The R's are fucked for a while. Barring a huge D disaster, the Dems will control the house for perhaps decades. The Senate will be firm for a while, and all the racist, xenophobic paranoid lamenting the Palineque sentiments has provoked a huge backlash in all the upcoming voter generations and minority blocks.
Who is going to unfuck them from this corner? Palin in 2012? No she's a sign of the problem. A cancer on the R's as David Brooks would say.
The R party will burn itself down in the crucible of extremism and ideological purity, and become less and less relevant. Eventually there will be a transformational figure to turn it around, but the current trajectory does not bode well for many many years.
"Grim" news for Republicans"
"Go to heaven for the atmosphere, go to hell for the company"
The whole fascism paranoia argument kind of died on the vine tonight...the beauty of America is that when one political party overcompensates towards one extreme on the ideological scale, the American people tend to pull the nation back to the center with a transfer of power.This is the hate and fear mongering fascist country they gave us over the span of 8 years. They need to go back to the unholy hell that spawned them. They can still beat that worn out Bible to death, but GOD don't want them, either.
And many of the college aged young people who supported Obama will enter the workforce, and the 20 and 30 somethings will advance in their careers...and will hit that inevitable scenario of asking the government "you want to take how much of paycheck?"By the time the next election rolls around, many of the 65+ may not be around.
They need to move more right. They don't have nearly enough prayer meetings.Originally posted by: retrospooty
Originally posted by: deftron
It's like Murder, She Wrote reruns ... eventually your fanbase dies out and it ends
LOL...
But dont count them out for long. They will regroup, shuffle toward the center and have a clear message for the 2016 election.
Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
The whole fascism paranoia argument kind of died on the vine tonight...the beauty of America is that when one political party overcompensates towards one extreme on the ideological scale, the American people tend to pull the nation back to the center with a transfer of power.This is the hate and fear mongering fascist country they gave us over the span of 8 years. They need to go back to the unholy hell that spawned them. They can still beat that worn out Bible to death, but GOD don't want them, either.
Don't worry...liberals are just as capable of playing 1984 as well in the name of saving individuals from themselves.
And many of the college aged young people who supported Obama will enter the workforce, and the 20 and 30 somethings will advance in their careers...and will hit that inevitable scenario of asking the government "you want to take how much of paycheck?"By the time the next election rolls around, many of the 65+ may not be around.
Responsibility, managing a household and paying taxes tends to cleanse the idealism of youth fairly quickly...look what happened to the Baby Boomers...the anti-establishment generation became the poster children of consumerism.
Originally posted by: konakona
Originally posted by: Bitek
The R's are fucked for a while. Barring a huge D disaster, the Dems will control the house for perhaps decades. The Senate will be firm for a while, and all the racist, xenophobic paranoid lamenting the Palineque sentiments has provoked a huge backlash in all the upcoming voter generations and minority blocks.
Who is going to unfuck them from this corner? Palin in 2012? No she's a sign of the problem. A cancer on the R's as David Brooks would say.
The R party will burn itself down in the crucible of extremism and ideological purity, and become less and less relevant. Eventually there will be a transformational figure to turn it around, but the current trajectory does not bode well for many many years.
That if she crawls herself out of her bag of scandals? I am not convinced at all about the Troopergate. Can she even sustain a political career after all this and more to come?
Agreed, but that is the nature of our political process, and it is healthy.Well, the Republican party hasn't been fiscally conservative in quite a while. It either needs to get pushed back toward fiscal conservatism, or a new party will rise from its ashes.
Fixed.Originally posted by: loki8481
the grimmest news is probably that the last two moderate, new england republicans got shown the door thanks to extremist Republican policies that made it impossible for a moderate Republican to win.
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The repugs have a hell of a task ahead of them if they want to gain back majority power again. This was a major repudiation of them and Bush. If he was a better man he'd probably realize that people loathe his presidency and consider him a disaster, but then part of this lack of self-awareness is the cause for those problems.
Originally posted by: Genx87
It is grim but this is the best thing to happen to them. It slaps them in the face to figure it out and any blame for the govt fucking up will fall squarely on those in power(democrats).
In 2010 and 2012 if the Demcrats fuck this up they will have nobody to blame but themselves and I expect the American people to hold them accountable. Like they have for so many generations.