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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Gee, you make it sound like this wasn't one of the closest votes in history. Obama barely squeaked out a majority of the popular vote, [b]and managed to do so only because the democratic base was much more motivated [/b]to vote than the Republican. This is hardly evidence that the Republicans are out of touch with the American electorate as a whole. [/quote]

Are you kidding me?  This is revisionist history, and not a particularly intelligent effort.  All we've been hearing about for the past year has been how incredibly motivated the GOP was to make Obama a 1 term president - it was Mitch McConnell's stated purpose, in fact.  The polls were underestimating Republican voters, they woudldcome out in droves, all the independents would swing Romney's way, there would be a groundswell of silent majority voters, blah, blah, blah.

And, with all that, Romney still lost by 126 electoral votes.  As it turned out, Obama could have lost Ohio, Virginia and Florida and STILL won.  It's not Romney's fault, either - moderate Mass. governor Mitt Romney would have won this in a walk - probably carried more electoral votes than Obama actually did.  But he had to move so far to the right to win the primary, he couldn't walk it back far enough to win the general.

A significant portion of th GOP - and unfortunately for you, it is the portion that is necessary to win the primary - is incredibly out of touch with the electorate as a whole on significant issues such as immigration, gay rights, and equal pay.  If they want to be competitive in national races in the future, they will have to moderate at least some of those positions - immigration seems the easiest, though why anyone would oppose equal pay for equal work is beyond me.  But the vocal core base that decides, in large part, the primaries WON'T moderate those positions.  So, what do you do?

That's not a rhetorical question - I really don't know.  I hope you're all as puzzled as I am, however, because if you don't figure it out there's not going to be any more red on that presidential map for a long time.  [/quote]

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