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[quote=Anonymous]First off, as I am not the first to note, the popular vote does not mean much for two reasons.  The minor one is that Sandy probably lowered turnout in Dem areas along the East Coast.  But more important, neither campaign really worked to bring out the vote in their base states, which means a lot of high population states for the Dems and only one (Texas) for the GOP.  Both parties were working on a set of rules that said EC is what counts.  You can't apply different rules once the game is over.

Second, as someone noted earlier in the thread, the emphasis on conservative social policy dates back to Lee Atwater.  He did it for the purely practical reason that it gave the GOP an inroad into the formerly Solid South when the Dems chose to go with civil rights.  The same type of practical reasoning is now likely to convince the pros that it's time to drop the social issues, since they do not enhance the prospects of gaining control of the government to carry out the agenda of their real base, the corporations and fat cats who bankroll them,[/quote]

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