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SOURCE: ALLVOICES By itobin53 The Republican Party has a huge problem with young voters, according to a new study. Whether or not they can or will do anything to fix that problem is another issue. In a 95-page report released Monday, focus groups essentially said what anyone living outside the conservative media bubble has been saying for the past four years. Since the radical fundamentalist Read More …
By Julian Zelizer CNN Contributor STORY HIGHLIGHTS Julian Zelizer: The tea party helped GOP bounce back from Bush years, McCain loss He says the short-term boost was overshadowed by the long-term damage Republicans moved far to the right to win tea party votes, only to lose the center, he says Zelizer: GOP lost some key Senate races, finds itself on the defensive in budget talks Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Is the Republican Party in disarray? No. Is it dysfunctional? Probably, yes. Is it crumbling? Not yet. Yes, at the rate the bloodletting is going on, the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln is going through like what “Honest Abe” went through during his tumultuous presidency—a civil war. What was once the party that welcomed – nay, tolerated – people with Read More …
Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz Long feared by Republican legislators, Grover Norquist has controlled the Republicans in Congress since 1986 because of the “pledge” that they signed. The Taxpayer Protection Pledge has two requirements: “ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar Read More …
WHY AND WHY NOT By Nelson A. Navarro The Philippine Star What makes you think that Filipinos in America would come out paragons of political virtue that they have not been back in the old country? I am a born-skeptic and this thought is never far from mind when I discuss politics with my Filipino-American friends. As the recent US presidential election shows, Fil-Ams fall Read More …
Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz If there is one difficult thing in losing an election it’s the how to cope with defeat. And the hardest part of losing is to concede defeat. Some made history with their concession speech and some went down in shame. One of the most memorable concession speeches was by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1980 at the National Democratic Convention Read More …
By Kevin Drum Mother Jones To start off this short week, I’d like to add my voice to the many on the left who are endlessly amused at how thoroughly Mitt Romney is being thrown under the bus by the right for the heinous crime of….saying nothing more than what most of them have believed for a long time. He thinks Obama won by promising Read More …
The messy aftermath of his loss suggests that Republicans won’t look to him to rebuild. By DAN EGGEN The Washington Post Days after failing to sail into the White House, Mitt Romney is already being tossed overboard by his party. The former Massachusetts governor — who attracted $1 billion in funding and 59 million votes in his bid to unseat President Obama — has rapidly Read More …
The Huffington Post By Elyse Siegel In the wake of the presidential election, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) had an interesting choice of words for suggesting how his party should regroup and rebuild in looking ahead to 2016. “We’ve got to give our political organization a very serious proctology exam,” he said at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. earlier Read More …
Source: TheWeek.com The candidate’s heavy reliance on support from white, older males may put pressure on the party to expand its tent With just one day before the presidential election, the GOP is virtually united in its support for Mitt Romney. After all, he’s the party’s only hope of denying President Obama a second term. But if Romney loses, it would lay bare a fundamental Read More …