A new report from American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago — or at most has risen by less than 1 percent.
One reason for our loss - “A downturn in the number and percentage of Republican voters going to the polls seemed to be the primary explanation for the lower than predicted turnout.” Not a good time to be apathetic.
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...oh yeah, blame the Republicans for Obama getting elected.
It might have turned out different if the Republicans had simply reversed their ticket or given their people somebody worth backing. Now McLoser's team is trying to blame it all on Palin rather than admit they ran a terrible campaign. Now they'll skip off to wherever, and we're left holding the bag.
I blame those who did not vote
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"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, criminal, grasping, and unintelligent.” -- H. L. Mencken
Of course conservatives did not show up, they had no one to vote for.
Now they're saying it wasn't young people either.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27582147/
"Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason."
"I blame those who did not vote".... McCain
And those who did not vote blame you for being a true loser!
And I thought it was all my fault.
The Republican Party was swept out of office because we allowed the Party to be hijacked by those who abandoned the our traditional ethos of fiscal restraint in favor of deficit spending and soaring a soaring national debt. The meltdown of the financial and housing markets, even though it had its genesis in the Clinton administration was tailor-made to sweep Obama into the White House.
The Obama campaign successfully cast the election as a referendum on the domestic economic policies of the Bush administration; just as the Democratic campaigns of the 2006 candidates successfully cast that election as a referendum on the Iraq war. We have only ourselves to blame. By nominating a candidate who was in his own way as liberal as his opponent, we virtually guaranteed a Republican defeat. Need I mention McCain-Feingold and Senator McCain's support of illegal alien amnesty? If the Republican Party cannot find its way back to its libertarian roots and embrace fiscal restraint, we are doomed to be locked out of the White House for the foreseeable future. On the bright side, if the DNC in any way views the election result as a mandate, they are sincerely deluded. The reasons for the Democratic knee-jerk, lever-pull was a wholesale dissatisfaction with the Bush administration and fear of economic insecurity.
Annie's right. In the end, it's really our fault. We have reached the point where we actually believe all the crap that we're fed. We allow ourselves to believe that the same bunch of lying crooks we threw out of power in the last election are now somehow different or better, even though they're the same people.
Our two-party system has become one party, with not enough difference to tell them apart. The Left has finally got what they've wanted for a long time, full power. The only thing left is the SCOTUS, and i predict they'll have that also within the first 2 years of The New Order. And unless you're foolish enough to underestimate the Left, you can count on them to hang onto that power for a long time!
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