Do you see the results of the 2012 election? It's interesting when things are broken up by county, and you begin to see things a bit more clearly. The vast majority of the surface area of the country is in red. This shows republicans are pretty much scattered across the country and aren't confined to the south. Also, it shows that a lot of democratic states (in regards to the EC) do tend to have a lot of people who vote republican. Thoughts?
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10 通の返信retroidmanにより編集済み: 11/3/2013 12:56:06 AM[u]2008 Presidential Election[/u] Obama: 69.5 million votes McCain: 60 million votes [u]2012 Presidential Election[/u] Obama: 66 million votes Romney: 61 million votes I think it's incredible that the Republican party can put up two [i]awful[/i] candidates for President two elections in a row and still have 60 million people vote for them. I'm pretty sure that if they could manage to find a half-decent candidate, then they would get guaranteed control of the White House. Also, if the Democratic party cannot find another minority or female candidate, I feel they might be in trouble (of course, they have Hillary for the upcoming one though).
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38 通の返信Screw american politics it doesn't work. What kind of system has to shut down the government because one section of one party didn't agree with the amount of money they should be allowed to spend?
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LA, San Francisco, New England and NY are some of the most densely populated areas in the US, whereas most of the middle is just wilderness and farms. I suspect there are far more people in those 4 Dem areas than the dozen states in the middle. Bipartisan system is -blam!-ing stupid.
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2 通の返信No, but y'know what? Both parties should be dead. George Washington spoke the truth about a nation divided through a pathetic two-party system like this. They should go under. I'm expecting butthurt libtards and republicans. I don't believe in either party, and if you do, we'll, just look out at the world.
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Of course it isn't dying. It's hard for me to believe they won't hold the states for a long time to come. Local politics is less moderate than national politics, and Congressmen who seem insane in the national scene fit perfectly into their districts. Same thing with governorship. The party is in a bit of a pickle at the federal level, but they have the simple advantage of being Conservatives.
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Quantumにより編集済み: 11/2/2013 4:45:17 AMThe extremist portion of the GOP will likely face troubled times over the next few years, due to the growing voting base of the Democrats, and the fact that their popularity in America has been declining since their 2010 height. The problem for the GOP is this: the best chance they have for winning the popular vote is with a moderate "compassionate" conservative. Examples include Christie, Bush, and [i]even Reagan.[/i] However, the GOP primaries are generally favorable to the more extreme candidates, or require the moderate candidate to become more conservative (e.g. Romney). Failure to do so will result in the candidate losing the primary (e.g. Huntsman). [b]The GOP has lost the popular vote in 5 out of the last 6 elections.[/b] Minorities are heavily in the Democrats favor. Immigration into southern states has already turned New Mexico and Colorado blue at least in the short run. (The win in 2004 can be attributed to Bush's 9/11 momentum, which even had him at 95% approval rating a few days after the event).
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6 通の返信It's gonna die because I the stupid Tea Party, they literally don't know how to compromise and are making fools of the whole right wing.
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4 通の返信TIL people think urban areas and big cities = poor people fucking lol. Keep telling yourself that.
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9 通の返信Donkey_Hotayにより編集済み: 11/2/2013 2:42:03 AMVery, very relevant. I even formatted it so it's easy to read. [quote]#1: The Republican Party’s voter base is continually shrinking. [spoiler]Think about it — while they hold a majority in the House thanks to gerrymandering, the Senate is not held by the GOP and neither is the White House. In fact, no Republican candidate has easily won the White House since 1988 when George H.W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis in a landslide.[/spoiler] #2: Themselves. [spoiler]The Republican Party is becoming even more extreme. It wasn’t acceptable to openly accuse the President of treason and call for impeachment for imaginary crimes ten or twenty years ago – at least in the rank and file part of the party. Yes, I know that Bill Clinton lied under oath about making sexy times with Monica Lewinsky, but that was an actual case of proven perjury and not the delusions of some far right nuts who believe President Obama went back in time and forged his own birth certificate.[/spoiler] #3: Libertarians. [spoiler]No, not the Rand Paul style of fake libertarianism which has become popular within the GOP lately, but the collection of people who are not tied to one political party or another. These are voters who reject the concepts of endless war and warrantless surveillance signed off on by the majority of Republicans as well as many Democrats. They may not be libertarians in the most ideologically pure manner, but there are some voters (myself included) who believe both in affordable or even free healthcare for all and the right for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms, within reason.[/spoiler] #4: The Tea Party. [spoiler]Similar to point #2, when you allow extremist factions greater power in order to keep votes and donations coming in, eventually something goes wrong. Having been a child prop for the religious right and watching the fringe elements push for ever more control, it was obvious that the radical element would take control of the party bus once given the opportunity. Remember, these aren’t people who can be reasoned or bargained with. They view the federal government, our national credit rating, and the world’s economy as hostages to be taken and used as negotiating tools in exchange for pushing their agenda, which even includes disenfranchising female voters.[/spoiler] #5: Greed. [spoiler]Sheer, unadulterated greed. For years we’ve been told that with more corporate profits, the wealth would eventually “trickle down.” Yet with the current economic status of the middle class and record corporate earnings, we can finally dismiss “trickle down” economics as being the load of 2 ton bull feces that it really is.[/spoiler] #6: Progress. [spoiler]Despite everything the GOP has done to try to stifle the growth of third parties and keep minorities from voting, it’s not like Hans Brinker sticking his finger in that Dutch dike to keep the sea from swallowing everything. Eventually, they will lose. Old ideas fall by the wayside. Old prejudices die out with the people who hold them.[/spoiler] #7: Demographics. [spoiler]Every year, new voters join the rolls and every year, older voters leave the rolls due to the eventual march of time and mortality. Younger voters don’t remember the days before desegregation, and they’re not as likely to respond positively to the racial, homophobic or xenophobic “dog whistles” used by candidates or media pundits.[/spoiler] #8: Ted Cruz. [spoiler]Yes, Ted Cruz. Sure there are other nut jobs that have driven the GOP close to going over the ideological cliff, but Ted Cruz reminds me of Major Kong riding a falling hydrogen bomb in the famous movie “Dr. Strangelove.” No single politician wanted it as badly and did more to ensure the government’s shutdown than Ted Cruz. Just like Major Kong, he’s whooping and hollering all the way to oblivion, to the end of the Republican Party – and there’s nothing they can do about it[/spoiler][/quote]
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7 通の返信Well I can see that tons of people on this forum have no idea how the electoral college works.
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6 通の返信Lord Decitronにより編集済み: 11/1/2013 10:02:00 PM[quote]The Republican Party isn't dying.[/quote] Well that kind of sucks. Sane Conservatives need the current batshits to go away so they can start working for the nation's actual interests.
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7 通の返信No but our country is. Also I can tell that the comments will just be ignorant, stupid comments from both sides, already fell for one. Not doing it again, I might get cancer from the stupidity.