Cellar US presidential election exit poll 2012

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

if the republicans had managed to shut their nutjobs up for a while I suspect a lot more dwellars would have voted Romney.

I never would have voted for Romney in a million years, myself, but there are plenty of situations where I would vote for a Republican over a Democrat. I did vote for several local Republicans in our state races. But yes, on the national level they have to stop putting up social conservative, big-money nutjobs.

Even the GOP knew Romney was a shithead, remember how they didn't even pretend to be happy when he won the nomination? "Maybe not the guy you or I would have chosen, but, you have to go with what you have." The Dems knew Kerry was a bad choice in 2008, too. Nobody really good ever runs against an incumbent, they save their mojo for a clean year.

2016 could be a really amazing election year. Or the GOP could continue to pander to a minority base. We'll see. But another thing: I'm really not sure we're more divided than we've ever been. In the 50s/60s, people actively shunned neighbors and in the right crowd it was a scathing insult to say "their family is all Democrats (or Republicans.)" We always want to believe it's the worst it's ever been, but usually it's exactly the same as it's ever been.