2012 Election Center: The Main Event - Obama Wins

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

haxxiy said:

Mr Khan said:

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Yo Mr Khan, what are your thoughts about the elections?

Mostly pleased, except for the shellacing my congressional candidate (Pennsylvania 3rd district) got. The one i was working for.

Anyway... I think the general theme of this election is that the Republicans have flung themselves too far to the right. I mean, i won't deny that Obama's overseen a period economically comparable to the hated 1970s, and some of that may have been his fault (though in all objectivity, partisan obstructionism on both sides is a big part of our gridlock as well), but while the Democrats are willing to move to the middle, the Republicans clearly aren't. The embrace of some of the more radical economic policies, as well as their extreme slants on gays and reproductive rights have completely screwed them over. I mean, look at Todd Akin, who got his ass whomped over his rape comments even though McCaskill (his opponent) was not very well-liked in Missouri.

Similarly, we have Richard Mourdock from Indiana. He beat the Republican senator, Lugar, in the primaries, because Indiana Republicans didn't like Lugar's willingness to work across the aisle, and then his stupid rape comments caused the Republicans to lose one of their coveted Senate seats entirely.

It's clear. The Republicans need to focus on common-sense reforms and abandon their extreme stances on the economy and wedge issues, or face irrelevence. I mean, if they can't beat Obama under these conditions, their only hope (other than changing themselves) is that the global economic meltdown comes in the next four years.

Social issues I can see...

Economic issues though... in general voters seemed to trust republicans more.  Romney actually had the lead for "Who do you trust to fix the economy."

At the end of the day I think the republicans lost because their exclusionary social polices led to too many "automatic exclusion" votes.

Essentially Democrats are mostly playing to a full field, while abortion, and just in general beliefs about racism more or less limit republicans mostly to just white men.  Which is basically who Romney won.

See my latter reply to haxxiy. While i personally abhor their economic policies, i still think the Republicans are honestly going too far for what a lot of Americans want. Some of their proposals are common-sense, mainstream stuff, like flattening the tax code while shutting down loopholes, while other things are stuff the average American doesn't want, like complete deregulation or the gutting of social programs.