It is an understatement to say that I was disappointed in the election results.Pity parties aren't healthy, though, so it's important to understand what happened and adjust and adapt accordingly. In that regard, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal has the most interesting analysis that I have read so far.
There are a lot of theories and post postmortems floating around. For the record, I think Romney and Ryan did a good job with the campaign. Sure they could have done some things differently, but I think these are in the category of minor tweaks and changes of emphasis rather than fatal grand themes or blown strategic decisions. The GOP can also go after minority voters more enthusiastically, Hispanics in particular. What really happened, though, according to Henninger is a permanent campaign for re-election that never stopped after the first election and is anchored by young Obama zombies who are more like Communist youth workers than traditional political volunteers.
They lived in swing states for 4 years and pushed Obama 24/7 with as many people as they could. I wouldn't be surprised if they had little red books and stood on street corners reading from them for Chairman O. Essentially it is morphing the "community organizer" into a permanent political organizer. This is, I fear, the new political paradigm to which Republicans are going to have to quickly adjust or continue losing a string of Presidential elections. We were all sick of the the election by the time November 6 rolled around, but we ain't seen nothing yet.
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