The first thing to look for is the start of the GOP civil war.
Grab some popcorn kids because this is going to be fun.
The GOP is a regional party and that can’t win national elections
and now they know it. the only segments they were able to win
was the senior vote and the men vote. They pretty much lost all
other groups, Women, the young, minorities, gays.
The problem with the senior vote is they are dying…
the Baby boomers such as myself who are replacing the seniors
into retirement, tend to fall into the socially liberal financially conservatives mold.
and that doesn’t play well into the GOP mission statement.
The next brick in the wall will be the Bush’s tax cuts which
expires shortly. the GOP will do almost anything to
renew those tax cuts and that gives Obama leverage to
get a deal. he should let the GOP come to him as he hold the
best hand and sits from a position of strength.
The next GOP issue is who now leads the party?
find that out and we will see where the GOP is going to go.
I hate to break this to you but men make up a significant portion of the population. Plus I’m sure there is some crossover between ‘men’ and ‘minorities’ and ‘gays’. Especially gays.
[quote=“Peter Kropotkin”]
The first thing to look for is the start of the GOP civil war.
Grab some popcorn kids because this is going to be fun.
The GOP is a regional party and that can’t win national elections
and now they know it. the only segments they were able to win
was the senior vote and the men vote. They pretty much lost all
other groups, Women, the young, minorities, gays.
The problem with the senior vote is they are dying…
the Baby boomers such as myself who are replacing the seniors
into retirement, tend to fall into the socially liberal financially conservatives mold.
and that doesn’t play well into the GOP mission statement.
The next brick in the wall will be the Bush’s tax cuts which
expires shortly. the GOP will do almost anything to
renew those tax cuts and that gives Obama leverage to
get a deal. he should let the GOP come to him as he hold the
best hand and sits from a position of strength.
The next GOP issue is who now leads the party?
find that out and we will see where the GOP is going to go.
Kropotkin
S: I hate to break this to you but men make up a significant portion of the population. Plus I’m sure there is some crossover between ‘men’ and ‘minorities’ and ‘gays’. Especially gays."
K: you really are kinda of clueless.
Romney won the men vote 62% to Obama 35%.
So that means 62% of all men voted for Romney.
Seeing as how Romney lost the election, he lost because
he lost the women’s vote, the minority vote especially latinos,
and he lost the young vote and gay vote. Now there is some overlap,
but that doesn’t change anything.
He’s not going to figure it out. He’s not convinced he’s wrong, so he’s not going to look through his post looking for what’s wrong and slowly figuring it out. He’s going to assume you’re being a dick and not figure it out.
If it’s important to you that he knows what’s wrong, your best bet is to explain it. He’s not going to do the work of proving himself wrong.
What’s next? Obama will continue to increase the deficit, taxes will remain about the same, he’ll probably start a war against Iran and keep blaming China for the fact that the U.S. can’t sell anything. He’ll probably step up efforts to round up Assange. He’ll continue to keep Guantanamo open and keep attacking civilians in the middle east in the hope he’ll hit some people off his personal kill list. At home, the house will continue to block any reforms he tries to make to just about anything at all.
Romney’s presidency would have looked completely different. Romney’s reforms would have been blocked by the Senate, not the house.
What’s next? Nothing really changes. Obama stays where he is for four more years. As a left leaning person and an ardent critic of Romney, i can’t help but feel vindicated by the decisiveness of Obama’s victory - but i’m not sure there’s anything much to celebrate. The economy will continue to grow very very slowly, so unemployment and debt will remain big problems, and banks and other big money types will continue to try to blame that on the government. The US will remain overentangled in the middle east, military-wise. Economic calamity will continue to spread through Europe. The US will continue to grow more socially liberal. The rich will stay rich, but maybe not quite so rich. Poor people and disaster victims will continue to get help from the government. China will keep doing whatever the fuck it wants, and Iran will follow suit as long as China keeps backing them up. Babies will be born. People will die. Same old shit.
I think people might be surprised at the changes global warming will bring. It will either make us or break us, depending on how we react. You saw what happened with Sandy. There’s more of that to come in various forms or fashions. It will take a very strong social, altruistic cohesion to get through these changes humanly. Old style politics simply won’t work, and a lot of this post-election analysis will be completely irrelevant. It will take a corresponding global mind change and a whole new kind of dialogue.
No he didn’t. He subsequently has said he was referring to the statistic that “Romney won the men vote 62% to Obama 35%'” This was the overall number of men. It did not exclude minorities or gays.
Wow, people seem to be really getting hung up on this business of overlapping groups.
Romney got over 50% of votes from males.
Obama got over 50% of votes from minorities, gays, and women.
If you cannot imagine the possibility of a dataset for which both of the above statements are true…well, I’ll avoid the insults.
Here, I’ll provide a possible dataset for which both of those statements are true (WARNING – THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS ARE MADE UP):
There are 20 people, 10 men and 10 women.
3 women voted for romney, 7 women voted for obama (over 50% of votes from women for Obama).
6 men voted for romney, 4 men voted for obama (over 50% of votes from men for Romney).
7 of the 10 men were white, and 3 were minorities.
5 of the 7 white men voted for Romney, 1 of the 3 minority males voted for Romney (that’s 6/10 male votes for Romney, again)
2 of the 3 minority males voted for Obama (over 50% of male minority vote)
2 gay men (1 white, 1 minority) both voted for Obama (over 50% of the gay vote)
Now, I’m not going to go through each and every possible combination of traits (sex, orientation and race), but I’ve covered all the ones that seem to be causing people mental distress. I don’t see what’s so difficult to fathom about Romney having the majority of male votes but not the majority of votes from minorities or gays. As demonstrated above, it’s exceedingly easy to come up with a dataset for which that’s true. Can we move on yet?
Well weather warfare was perfected in the 60’s, and a global treaty was signed in the 70’s prohibiting using this technology - except internally on your own country.
So it was manufactured using the 100% public technology that was perfected over 50 years ago.
Actual conspiracies involve aliens and stuff that isn’t really provable (yet). This is just a normal concept. You don’t know about it because there isn’t a television show about this. I can assure you there are numerous books and documents. Check them out if you know how to read beyond a high school level of comprehension.
that’s the point. When you say “men” by itself and in relation to supporting the right, you’re clearly not talking about the minorities. You’re mostly talking about the white straight males.