Looks like Barack's in trouble with the same young people he's been speaking to in high schools & colleges throughout the country during the last year. Hard to find a road trip that didn't include a speech at a university or high school, making it obvious that's the voting bloc he's targeting. Too bad, Mr. President. Maybe you should spend more time talking to grown-ups -- appears the younger set isn't as stupid as you thought they were. Doesn't look good... maybe it's time to shift gears on that campaign trail. When you get back from that long vacation in Hawaii, that is.
Granny says, "Dat's right - dat's why Obama won... In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites Apr 29,`13 WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.
While I believed Romney had a chance of winning, the "landslide" remarks were so ridiculous that I'm surprised Fox News thought it was suitable.
Fox only aired that garbage on those stupid ass shows that actually don't report REAL news. You know, shows like Hannity, On the Record and what not........
Darn straight Mitt had a chance of winning. The election was pretty much handed to him on a silver platter. Had they kept a lid on how extremist the GOP has become I think Mitt would have won. Blows me away that so many would vote for a party that wants to force rape victims to carry the rapists child and think that women can just do a vulcan mind meld with the rapists sperm to avoid pregnancy.
Young people are realizing that the same money that got Obama into office is the same money that Backed Romney in 2012, and the same money that has backed Bush jr, Clinton, Bush sr, and Reagan? I doubt it, young voters are idiots.
Fox's job...is to tell its audience what that audience WANTS to hear....not news or facts or truth. BTW, poor Dick Morris was a scapegoat. He got fired...but Hannity, O'Reilly, etc. who were nodding in agreement with his "landslide" predictions kept their jobs. Even Limbaugh was talking landslide....naturally the ditto-heads flushed that down the "memory hole" at the Ministry of Truth.
The "landslide" predictions were a form of campaigning, and the lack of strong Democratic response was too. Studies have shown that Democratic turnout is higher when an election looks to be close, and falls when the Democrat seems to have a prohibitive lead, whereas Republican turnout goes up when it looks like a GOP victory is in the offing, they like to pile on so they can be part of a winning effort, and falls when it looks like the GOP will lose, why waste time being part of a losing effort. So predicting a Romney victory increased GOP Turnout. While the Democrats used a narrative of a very close, every vote will count election, to boost turnout. In the end it was of course an electoral college landslide.
Millenials are reaching out to me and many others in desperation. My understanding of their plight is firsthand.
Of course it is. Murdoch is a smart guy. And he knows media. He heard people drone on about the "liberal media"(tm) and thought "hey, if I start a channel that simply tells conservatives what they want to hear they will, like lemmings, flock to my station." Good for him. The problem, of course, is that people actually believe the stuff they see on Faux News. Which is how you got endless threads on this very site predicting a Romney landslide. And no matter how many times me and others tried to tell them to put the Kool Aid down they would not listen. Romney had very little chance of winning per any RELIABLE source. It was not about ideology or party or anything else. It was simply a matter of being able to identify an actual source. But people are frankly too stupid to do that. So they ended up looking like the idiots they likely really are.
Cool thing about people who trust and believe Fox?.....those wonderfully SURPRISED LOOKS on their faces on Election Night. Seriously, if all you ever hear is what you WANT to hear....you're at a strategic disadvantage. Imagine if Fox had told its audience the polls were NOT "skewed" and "Romney could be in trouble"?.....those folks might have worked harder in the final weeks and possibly tightened the election. Instead they trusted Dick Morris, Hannity, Greta, Stuart Varney, etc.....and figured it was "in the bag". Question is...will Fox do the same thing in 2014? Tough choice- 1. Tell its audience "Things are tight...Dems looking at some pick-ups in Congress"...the Fox audience gets depressed and dispirited, not hearing "good news" from their beloved media outlet. 2. Tell its audience "No problem....Dems going to lose more in the House, lose the majority in the Senate".....the Fox audience might get lackadaisical or WORSE for Fox....not believe the happy-happy talk...given the "Romney landslide" pap.
Dip(*)(*)(*)(*) Carl Rove was awesome. Even though you would think he would know better, he fell for the spin too. He lived in the bubble and came out looking like a moron. That was the best part of the night (I had no horse in the race, so the winner meant nothing to me).
What bugs me is just how socially conservative they pretend to be while failing to be fiscal, small government conservatives in a BIG way. If it weren't for the religious vote, they wouldn't stand the ghost of a chance.
It is not almost Orwellian doublespeak .... It "is" Orwellian doublespeak. The party that claims to uphold the constitution has no clue what the constitution is about and wants to make laws based on religious beliefs same as Sharia The party that claims to be fiscal conservative have been by far and away the most fiscally irresponsible with Reagan and Bush tied and Bush Sr a close second. These folk who claim to be good Christians lie their faces off ... even more than the left.
