What the election means
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talkpoliticsThis was about more than Obama's victory. Several Tea Party extremists were also defeated. Todd Akin, Allen West, Joe Walsh (not of Eagles fame hehe), Richard Mourdock, and others were among them. While Democrats made gains in the House, the GOP still holds the majority.
The question is will this end GOP stonewalling in Congress? It would be nice if the House could pass something (aside from a repeal of Obamacare that has no chance of becoming law). It would be nice if the Senate would stop filibustering everything that Obama proposes. If the GOP continues their obstruction tactics, how will it affect them in 2014?
The question is will this end GOP stonewalling in Congress? It would be nice if the House could pass something (aside from a repeal of Obamacare that has no chance of becoming law). It would be nice if the Senate would stop filibustering everything that Obama proposes. If the GOP continues their obstruction tactics, how will it affect them in 2014?
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Date: 7/11/12 19:49 (UTC)Women favored Obama by 11 points while men backed Romney by 7; the gender gap has been bigger just once, in 2000 (when men were +11 Bush and women were +11 Gore). Add in marital status and the gaps become garish: Married men for Romney by 60-38 percent; unmarried women (younger, more Democratic, more aligned with Obama on social and role-of-government issues) backed the incumbent by 67-31 percent. Latinos broke for Obama by over 70%. African Americans by more than that. Young people turnout was over 30%, up over 2008 and they broke overwhelmingly for Obama.
All of those demographics are getting larger.
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Date: 7/11/12 23:31 (UTC)Seriously, old white men have got to stop pretending like they know peoples' issues better than they do. I'm not saying they can't have opinions and legislate on matters not immediately pertinent to them, but doing so with apparently no consultation is turning people off them.
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Date: 7/11/12 19:56 (UTC)Sorry to be a Debbie Downer :-/
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* Vote View (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_%28scaling_method%29) is a research lab with UCLA's political science dept, and they maintain a huge database on all the votes in Congress, and do statistical analysis on that data.
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Date: 7/11/12 19:59 (UTC)It's annoying to think that the next 2 years are just gonna be spent making the case to vote Republicans out of Congress, while unable to create any real legislative change.
What's going to happen from now on?
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