You know, all we need someone to do is photoshop McCain in as the turkey being killed behind that press conference of Palin’s. His 2008 campaign summed up in one image.
Well yes, McCain’s reaction was stupid.
Rumors that he tried to call in an air strike on the financial crisis are unfounded. We should all be diligent in preventing the spread of such scurrilous lies.
You’re just sore because Obama’s intensively negative and personal campaign was better than Romney’s intensively negative and personal campaign.
Meh - they’re both amateurs compared to Rick Santorum. Who could forget Obamaville?
Why did it take five years to come up with the perfect name for Palin? I am SO stealing this.
Use it in good health. But it’s not anywhere near new…I’ve heard/seen it since before Election Day 2008.
Caribou Barbie didn’t do it for ya, huh?
Yes, isn’t it though?
That’s how you’ve chosen to spin your unskewed-poll nonsense now?
In four out of the 57 US presidential elections (1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000) the winner won the EC but lost the popular vote. So about 7% or so.
Fun Fact!: In the last three of those the Republican won over the more-popular Democratic candidate, while in 1824 both John Quincy Adams (who won the election) and Andrew Jackson (who won the popular vote by a 10% margin) were Democratic-Republicans.
And Now You Know.
Resistance is futile.
So?
But it’s debatable which assimilated which.
Does it matter? The result is that the Democrats are now centrist, not progressive - and in power, reflexive oppositionism from the GOP notwithstanding. The more useful discussion would be about how to get the Dem leadership to recognize that they can be more progressive without risking power, and that in fact they might even *gain *support.
But, are you sure that is true?
No, it’s not possible to be sure in politics. However, just look at, for instance, the number of people who think Obamacare doesn’t go far enough, that it easily could have had a real public option, and at all the lies that are being told about it anyway. The criticisms of it are based on the preemptive compromises to it that didn’t have to be made.
How do you think thepublic opinion is moved, unless by leadership and actions that help make policies seem normal and necessary instead of extreme?
Maybe. I find it as delusional as the Republicans thinking the secret is to move further to the right. The issue isn’t ideology, most of the public is non-ideological. It’s about good government. govern well, you win. Govern poorly, you lose. Govern corruptly, you damage your brand for a decade or more.
One of the problems with being more progressive is, where do you get the money? Taxing the middle class is off the table now. Since you can only get so much money from taxing the rich, that means progressives have to scale back their ambitions.
No, ideology is more important to some people than others, but most people have some ideology, if we broadly define same as political views with content more specific and controversial than “good government”.
I’ll concede your point because that’s how conservatism got as strong as it did. Problem is, liberals don’t seem to be very interested in convincing anyone not already on board of the virtues of liberalism. Their strategy is the very definition of base moblization. Even though it’s a smaller base.
I tend to agree. Furthermore, I think that once ideology is set, it is very hard to change it. In that sense, I think there are very few true swing voters–meaning true undecideds who could vote R in one election and D in the next. I think most swing voters are really just undecided about whether or not to bother voting for their team this time.
Most of these folks IMO know their lone vote doesn’t much effect the outcome of a grand election, so their vote is simply a proxy to “cheer for their side”. It’s considered bad form to switch sides just because your team is losing, so you are going to stick with D or R probably to the bitter end. On the other hand, who doesn’t enjoy cheering when it looks like your side is going to win? Conversely, while it may be noble for a die-hard to cheer his team thru a loss, in my experience most fans aren’t that noble. That’s why we have bandwagons 