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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is destroying the Republican Party [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)56. Well,
"Boxed in for what? The GOP controlls only 1/3rd of the government. They can only vote up or down on things."
...at least you admit that they're powerless.
"Obama did not win a massive landslide. He won 51% of the vote against a shitty candidate....possibly one of the worst candidates we have ever seen in modern times."
I didn't say "massive" (as in 2008), I said he won by a landslide. If you need a reality check: 332 to 206 electoral votes is a landslide, and so is this:
Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the national popular vote twice, according to a revised vote count in New York eight weeks after the Nov. 6 election, Bloomberg writes, adding, The president nationally won 65.9 million votes -- or 51.1 percent -- against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who took 60.9 million votes and 47.2 percent of the total cast, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Obama is the first president to achieve the 51 percent mark in two elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who did it in 1952 and 1956, and the first Democrat to do so since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive White House races. Roosevelt received 53.4 percent of the vote -- his lowest -- in his last race in 1944.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/04/16348268-obama-agenda-first-since-ike-to-win-51-back-to-back
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/04/16348268-obama-agenda-first-since-ike-to-win-51-back-to-back
"The GOP is in a civil war that the extremists will eventually lose. It is inevitable. The old, rich, religious-right, white guys are a dying breed and are losing influence. They can't even get their man nominated anymore. The future GOP will be more moderate and more libertarian. More than half of Republicans under age 45 voted for Ron Paul. More than 2/3rds of Republicans over age 65 voted for either Gingrich or Santorum. In a decade or so, political animals like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock will be extinct. "
It appears you agree they're being destroyed.
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Republicans going away will make the country more progressive. The electoral choice will be
bluestate10
Mar 2013
#12
Get back to me when Nancy Pelosi is SOTH. Until then, Repugs are ANTYHING but destroyed.
MotherPetrie
Mar 2013
#15
Thank goodness we the people don't elect Presidents for the press to "like"
Proud Liberal Dem
Mar 2013
#10