A majority of Americans voted for big government.
Serious analysts like Michael Barone, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, forecast 315 electoral votes for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Campaign consultant Dick Morris gave Romney 325. Accurate since 1980, the University of Colorado–Boulder’s model predicted 330 electoral votes for Romney. In fact, Romney had secured 206 electoral votes, with Florida too close to call, as of Thursday morning.
Reputed über-genius Karl Rove reconfirmed that he is the most overrated living participant in American public life. As “the architect” of profligate “compassionate conservatism,” Rove helped smash the GOP’s reputation for fiscal discipline. This still hurts Republicans. As Reuters’s Tim Reid wrote: “Early national exit polls revealed that about 50 percent of U.S. voters still blamed former Republican President George W. Bush for the country’s economic problems rather than Obama.” The allegedly brilliant Rove foresaw 279 electoral votes for Romney. Oops! Rove should retire to a Texas ranch, where he can raise and sell actual bull.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333035/walk-through-rubble-deroy-murdock
Ronald Reagan called the 1964
election “a time for choosing.” Tuesday’s election results yield a time
for bewilderment. With mouths agape, let’s walk through the rubble.
Given his record, it is astonishing that President Obama won
reelection. He should have lost, big time. Despite an $833 billion
stimulus and $5.6 trillion in fresh national debt, the economy crawls
forward with 2 percent growth. Shovel-ready projects were not
shovel-ready. The Department of Energy has generated some 60,000 green
jobs — at $578,333
each. When Obama arrived, unemployment was 7.8 percent. It’s now 7.9
percent. Nonetheless, Obama is the first president to get reelected with
joblessness above 7.2 percent since FDR in 1936.Serious analysts like Michael Barone, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, forecast 315 electoral votes for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Campaign consultant Dick Morris gave Romney 325. Accurate since 1980, the University of Colorado–Boulder’s model predicted 330 electoral votes for Romney. In fact, Romney had secured 206 electoral votes, with Florida too close to call, as of Thursday morning.
Reputed über-genius Karl Rove reconfirmed that he is the most overrated living participant in American public life. As “the architect” of profligate “compassionate conservatism,” Rove helped smash the GOP’s reputation for fiscal discipline. This still hurts Republicans. As Reuters’s Tim Reid wrote: “Early national exit polls revealed that about 50 percent of U.S. voters still blamed former Republican President George W. Bush for the country’s economic problems rather than Obama.” The allegedly brilliant Rove foresaw 279 electoral votes for Romney. Oops! Rove should retire to a Texas ranch, where he can raise and sell actual bull.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333035/walk-through-rubble-deroy-murdock
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