US Presidential Elections 2012 (19 Viewers)

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,545
Twenty years ago, an establishment candidate like Mitt Romney would have trounced Obama, O’Reilly said.
lol!

otherwise, that seems like a pretty good assessment from a republican. That's who Obama was appealing to: minorities, women, and young people. And the percentage of the white population is definitely mot as big as it used to be. latinos are the ones who are second iirc and pretty soon they're projected to be #1. we're still not minority but yeah.
 

acmilan

Plusvalenza Akbar
Nov 8, 2005
10,722
well, someone should let Billy O on the secret of time kind of working that way - white, fat, old Americanos aka "90% of the republican base" tend not to last very long.
Add to that the republicans' top notch ability to alienate multicultural voters with their knack for politically-correct racism and narrow-mindedness , and all of sudden it don't look like rocket science no more ... which plays to their advantage 'cause let's face it, there ain't many rocket scientists in that base of theirs either. And yet they still haven't figured that out ... Pretty sure it's just a coincidence.

venting over :D
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,545
Yeah, which comes to what we were talking about before. They need to rejuvenate that party otherwise they will risk losing every election.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,515

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,799
It's well documented that the so-called "red", primarily Republican-voting states are the biggest beneficiaries of government handouts in the country -- with the many "blue" states footing the bill. :lol:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1451268

Bill O'Reilly has it the other way around -- it's his pet party that seems to want all the free stuff while all the "freeloaders" are paying for it.
 

acmilan

Plusvalenza Akbar
Nov 8, 2005
10,722
It's well documented that the so-called "red", primarily Republican-voting states are the biggest beneficiaries of government handouts in the country -- with the many "blue" states footing the bill. :lol:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1451268

Bill O'Reilly has it the other way around -- it's his pet party that seems to want all the free stuff while all the "freeloaders" are paying for it.
exactly. and that's because the economical and technological development of the US is, naturally, along the coast and more precisely in the non-slave states i.e. in the blue states, non-coincidentally.

actually, even in the "red" states, if you take apart the often democrat-leaning big city population, what you are mostly left with is the part of the US population that has missed the last 50-100 years of social and technological development aka the republican base. another coincidence? don't believe in those, tbh.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,291
It's well documented that the so-called "red", primarily Republican-voting states are the biggest beneficiaries of government handouts in the country -- with the many "blue" states footing the bill. :lol:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1451268

Bill O'Reilly has it the other way around -- it's his pet party that seems to want all the free stuff while all the "freeloaders" are paying for it.
Maybe the Obama supporters of the South are too busy withdrawing from college courses and pocketing the refund checks to worry about anything else.

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Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'too far gone'

"We're so far gone. We're over the cliff," the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop" program. "We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things."

"People do not want anything cut," he said. "They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing money. They do not believe we have gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff. They think we can patch it over, that we can somehow come up with a magic solution."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/nov/8/ron-paul-election-shows-us-far-gone/
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,799
Ron Paul could have said that before the election -- wouldn't have mattered with either candidate in there. Nobody wants to promote sacrifice. Our politicians are so scared shitless by the polls that nobody wants to risk losing their job by making hard, unpopular, but necessary decisions. So we're the fat kid whose parents try to be their "best friend" instead of parents and feed the kid cake every night.
 

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