Remember the Romney face tattoo guy? He’s had a change of heart: Hartsburg tells POLITICO he plans to get the tattoo lasered off, a process that could take a year…[Hartsburg] heard some of Romney’s post-election comments, most notably his claim that the president won reelection because of “gifts” given to various constituencies. “It stands not […]
Election 2012
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GOPers Finally Coming to Terms With Mitt Romney’s Unexpected Defeat
So, lets say you’re a despondent Republican who’d been lulled into a false sense of Mitt Romney’s inevitability by a misplaced trust in the math wizardry of Dean Chambers, the man behind UnSkewedPolls.com. How do you come to terms with Romney’s unexpectedly crushing defeat? By buying into Chambers’ latest endeavor, of course: BarackOFraudo.com (love that […]
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Christian Right: “How come nobody wikes us? All we wanna do is persecute gay famblies and force women to have wape babies. And nobody wikes us! Wah!”
A delicious, page-one story in Saturday’s NYT: Christian conservatives, for more than two decades a pivotal force in American politics, are grappling with Election Day results that repudiated their influence and suggested that the cultural tide—especially on gay issues—has shifted against them…. It is not as though they did not put up a fight; they […]
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That Had to Hurt
Who got a bigger percentage of the Mormon vote: George W. Bush or Willard M. Romney? Ouch.
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Mitt Romney’s Campaign Really Believed He Was Going to Win, Right Up Until He Lost
This CBS News report about the last day of the Romney campaign is full of interesting little bits. Here’s a good part, from right after Romney learned he’d lost Ohio: “He was shellshocked,” one adviser said of Romney. Romney and his campaign had gone into the evening confident they had a good path to victory, […]
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President-Elect Romney’s Transition Website Briefly Went Online
Hot tipper Gale sent this Yahoo story about the Romney campaign’s transitional website: The site appeared online on Wednesday and was taken down—but not before Taegan Goddard, a blogger for Roll Call’s Political Wire, captured screenshots, which included a “President Elect” seal, information about the inauguration, a fresh tagline (“Smaller, Simpler, Smarter”) and a quote […]
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The Time Has Come for National Vote-by-Mail
In his victory speech, President Barack Obama made a point of calling out the inexcusable mess that is election day throughout much of the nation: “I want to thank every American who participated in this election … whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time. By […]
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What Went Wrong with Republican Predictions
That Unskewed Polls Guy: Chambers’ method of “unskewing” polls involved re-weighting the sample to match what he believed the electorate would look like, in terms of party identification. He thought the electorate would lean more Republican when mainstream pollsters routinely found samples that leaned Democratic. But as it turned out, the pollsters were right — […]
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Who Were the Biggest Losers?
The rich guys who, emboldened by Citizens United, tried to buy the election for Romney and other conservatives: At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romney’s loss the day before. […]
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Snaps from Last Night’s Mercury Election Partayyyy!
Here are just a few pics from the awesome time had by all at the Mercury Election Night Wing-a-ding-ding party at the Doug Fir! More pics (along with snarky commentary) after the jump! I love the smell of unwashed masses. I am the patriot my father always dreamed I’d be. Can someone tell her Obama […]
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What Would Republicans Do to Not Vote for Chris Christie?
Okay, okay: I’m just going to put up one more schadenfreude post and then I promise it’s back to work. Over at The Corner, John J. Miller writes, “So, it’s pretty clear that Chris Christie won’t be the GOP nominee in 2016, right?” What follows in the comments is an amazing display of conservative self-torture […]
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Bill O’Reilly Mourns the Death of the Privileged White Majority
I have never seen Fox News so sad as when Bill O’Reilly told them the (partial) truth. That he and everyone who works for and watches Fox News are now in the MINORITY. While he weirdly categorizes Obama supporters as people “who want things”—as opposed to Republicans who never want anything ever (they’re so austere […]