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In reply to the discussion: Just heard on NPR that the website glitches have destroyed Obama & Dems [View all]Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Americans don't have that kind of attention span. And the ACA is something that will affect many positively, but on the flip side, I sincerely doubt anyone will be losing their home or dying in the streets because of it, so efforts to keep it alive as Obama's Waterloo won't go anywhere. Witness their obsession with Benghazi. Their own base is the only one that doesn't roll their eyes when it's mentioned. It also depends on who they've got running. Obama won an election he should have lost this past year. Historically, an incumbent running during low employment numbers and with his popularity barely scrapping 50% shouldn't have won, especially by the respectable margin Obama did. But, the other side ran candidates that were so fundamentally flawed and out-of-touch with the electorate that there was no way Romney could have eked out a victory. I suspect that if they run the same misogynist teabagger extremists that they ran a couple of weeks ago like Cucinnelli, and the rape-is-a-blessing misogynists like Akins and Mourdock, they'll still have trouble with mainstream voters. I know those idiots. They won't be able to resurrect the race and gender wars.