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One of the big strategic feats the GOP pulled off 30 years ago was turning 'liberal' into a bad word - one that the Dems (mistakely) ran away from. If we have an opportunity to turn the tables, it would be an incredible strategic coup, that would pay off for at least a generation.
When I look at just how unpopular the Republican Party has become, and I consider how strong the party is in large swaths of the country, it is no wonder that Obama is leading in the swing-states. We're seeing this unpopularity reflected in a variety of ways. Recent polling data has shown Obama doing surprisingly well with blue-collar white women. He's surging with Latinos. Now we see that Reagan-Democrats have turned against the GOP. Self-described moderates hate the GOP. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Romney is suffering from the fact that his support is not well distributed throughout the country. His support is strong in about 20 states, but many of those states have very small populations and, collectively, they don't get him close to winning the Electoral College. That's why a three-point difference in the popular vote is misleading.
This is the reverse of the normal trend in American elections. Democrats tend to be concentrated in urban centers and their inner suburbs, which makes it hard for them to win control of the House of Representatives, for example, because they have too many districts where they win 80 or 90 percent of the vote. If you allocated House seats by the overall vote in Philly and its suburbs, the Democrats would get six seats and the Republicans none. But, right now, the split is three to three. For Romney, however, it doesn't do him much good to be rolling up big margins in Utah and Texas and Louisiana because he needs those votes in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia.
Back in the late 1980's the Republicans made a concerted effort to turn "liberal" into a bad word. It worked so well that liberals decided to call themselves progressives instead. It's time to turn "Republicans" into a bad word. Most people hate them already, so why not confirm their preexisting bias?
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/10/3/95415/7638
musiclawyer
(2,335 posts)This is the flip side of POTUS asking for a Dem House
It's very important that he do it but ........he has NOT done so yet
Team POTUS knows how to run a campaign but sometimes I think they miss the tree right in front while looking at the forrest
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)As far as i'm concerned the R-word has been a bad word since Regan's attacks on unions and workers!
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)To Republican a company is to do a hostile takeover, saddle it with debt, take profits, sell off resources and lay off the workers then sell the shell.
To Republican during a debate or interview simply utter easily disproven lies.
To Republican a debate or an interview as a moderator or host, allow easily disproven lies to go unchallenged or uncorrected.
Casting racial insults is to "Republican" someone.
Add yours.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Meaning, to molest the child. Almost 100% of the convicted pedophiles with an identifiable political affiliation are repigs.
http://armchairsubversive.blogspot.com/