Originally posted by graphicgr8s I can't believe this thread is still alive.Blue I thought you were gone also. Better yet I can't believe I am posting this.
Osamarama won for 2 reasons and 2 reasons only. Reason 1 They energized the black voter. ACtually they got black folks to vote.
Reason 2. For the honky vote it was a vote against another Bush presidency. McCain wouldn't have been be he wasn't able to distance himself enough.
Hussein got elected not because of his policy (or lack thereof) but because he was black and because he wasn't Bush.
According to Pew's data, Obama would have won the popular vote (they canot address the electoral college) even if the same number of African Americans had voted as in 2004, just based on his gains among whites (~2%) and among Hispanics (~13%). He also won among voters on every single issue (economy, Iraq, energy, health care, etc) except "terrorism".
On the substance, McCain ran on lower taxes for the top 5% of taxpayers, a more aggressive foreign policy, and a more traditional energy policy, and lost on all those issues.
Quote: The Republican party must get back to the way it use to be or it won't be at all.
And this is my last post on this thread. (Unless I get Democrat and deny I ever said that)
All other things remaining equal, as long as the GOP stands on a) trickle-down economics, and b) aggressive foreign policy (the two basic tenets of Reaganism, together with some lip service to social issues such as abortion and gay rights), it will likely keep losing. Of course, external factors can change that (e.g. Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, etc).