Technically North Carolina was a swing state, but only in the same sense Wisconsin was, really.
Weeeeeell, Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes and Obama won by 6.7 points; North Carolina has 15 electoral votes and Romney won by 2.2 points.
Where a swing-state is defined as a state that's close and has a significant number of electoral votes, NC beats Wisconsin on both counts. I would certainly count it.
A one-hitter's still pretty good.
And there's no mandate.
By the same standards the media used to frame the Bush re-election, this is a mandate.
That's what I said.
From everything I've seen outside of the obscurer republican strategists, everybody including (esp) Karl Rove seems to agree that the only reason Mitt lost was because he wasn't conservative enough and stayed on defense too much. Considering these two things are the opposite of what is true, barring a mass epiphany it looks like we will see a repeat of their 2012 performance in 2016, but maybe with a token minority as their guy. Rubio seems likely. He's Cuban, and all hispanics like all other hispanics, right? Automatically!
If Karl Rove and Fox News were in charge of who got nominated, it wouldn't have been Romney in the first damn place.
Don't get me wrong, they're influential -- they're just not as in-control as they think they are.
It could happen. But Rove's begun to rack up quite the record for saying shit that turns out to be laughably wrong.
I really do love "Is that math you just use because you're a Republican, to make yourself feel better?" It's even better if you think of it as a six-years-later retort to "You're entitled to your math, and I'm entitled to THE math."
The GOP formula for voters seems to be "only white people are smart" and "of smart people, only men matter". The funny thing is, if they nominate Rubio I imagine a lot of their baked in white voterbase will vote for a white Democrat over "that damn Mexican". I seriously doubt they're going to manage 60% of the white vote again without a black guy as the other choice.
They'll line up behind the Cuban just like they lined up behind the Mormon. Especially if Clinton is the nominee. (I don't think she will be, but I also don't know of anybody likelier. Same goes for him, I guess.)
That's pretty awful. People are so dumb that they would write in stupid shit instead of at least voting for the guy running against Paul Broun.
Not sure if joking
or doesn't know Broun was running unopposed