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'Mistakes' is subjective, sometimes you have to play your hand Isaac Send a noteboard - 11/11/2012 01:09:31 AM
without learning from your mistakes last time though. Just like low turnout kills the Democrats, backward social policies and a continual stream of absurd and damaging statements from the far right of the party who continue to force presidential candidates to say one thing to win the primaries and another to appeal to the electorate are killing the Republicans.


Turnout hurt the GOP bad this time, and don't I know it, I had multiple downticket candidates lost by a slim margin while Obama swept my county at +10, that hurts like hell because you know they were the better candidate in their own race but got swept by straight-ticket presidential-year-only voters. We won a big share of the regular Dems but lost anyway because the 'elections are only every 4 years right?' crowd can't be bothered to find out that one of the guys with a D next to his name is under investigation by the FBI. They just see a D, and I'm not sure re-branding our pushing our message harder would help.

Because in a lot of these cases the 'mistake' is having certian values or principals 49% support and 51% don't, and you're one of those 49%, I'm not willing to change my stance on abortion to gain votes, or guns or school vouchers. Things like that aren't on the table anymore then changing my religion would be if I moved somewhere where Buddhists or Muslims were the majority. Being against amnesty for illegals might not be a tactically good position but I'm not wiling to trade it off for votes.
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I do hope the Republican party have the same lax attitude, I love seeing them lose *NM* - 08/11/2012 12:46:32 PM 236 Views
I imagine lots of idiots feel the same way on both sides about both parties *NM* - 08/11/2012 11:05:29 PM 256 Views
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the dems played the "wait for the repubs to crash and burn" strategy and it worked out ok this year - 09/11/2012 05:01:53 PM 581 Views
Off topic, but is your Shift key broken? - 09/11/2012 05:47:12 PM 490 Views
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I think he was asking why you do it *NM* - 09/11/2012 07:15:27 PM 241 Views
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I think you were taking that statement rather literally - 11/11/2012 07:36:14 PM 513 Views
Oh, I can absolutely count on them crahsing and burning, that's a given, happens to both regularly *NM* - 09/11/2012 06:28:51 PM 278 Views
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i think you've hit on a major point here - 11/11/2012 02:08:50 PM 543 Views
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