2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: ELECTION SPOILER: Obama wins in a LANDSLIDE [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)Well, it's done.
Obama did win in a LANDSLIDE.
My Popular Vote tally didn't pan out as expected but he certainly got his Electoral Landslide nonetheless.
332 to 206.
Heh heh. Looks like I misplaced a decimal point somewhere.
15% to 20% turned out to be 1.5% to 2.0% in the Popular Vote.
There was never a doubt in my mind that Obama would get his 2nd term.
I KNEW from DAY ONE as soon as those Republican challengers took the stage that this was a done deal.
My breakdown of the candidates & how that would shape the Republican race was absolutely true.
Romney was lame & dead in the water only buoyed up by the hatred for Obama.
We will never hear from that loser again. Thank God!
My take on the Republican Party from this election holds up too.
I know we were looking at the end of the Southern Strategy & hence the destruction of the Republican Party.
Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, & so many other Republican honchos & henchmen openly saying that their time is up live on air.
Not only openly saying, openly showing it, openly displaying it.
They can't divorce themselves from the bigots picked up after the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
You lay down with dogs you're gonna wake up with fleas.
And the bloodsuckers are about to drain this beast dry.
There will be no "reaching out" to the Latinos because the White bigots will balk.
There will be no purging of the White bigots because they will have no numbers to win elections anymore.
A no-win situation that means the eventual demise of the Republican Party.
Once they lose their National Platform they won't be able to organize the Regional Platforms & that will be the death of the party.
A death that they deserve, a death that is long overdue.
Goodbye to the Reagan Revolution. Goodbye to the Reagan Democrats.
Goodbye to Reaganomics & its Trickle-Down Bullshit.
Goodbye "Conservative" Movement.
Hello to the Obama Revolution. Hello to the Obama Republicans.
Hello to Obama's New Deal & its Fairly-Distributed Benefits.
Hello Progressive Movement.
No more Regressing. Now it's time for Progressing.
The Mandate is HERE & the openly Progressive President we have been waiting for is now emerging in his 2nd term.
FORWARD!!!
John Lucas