Election 2012

[Lamplighter]

For political junkies (like me), these are the best of times and the worst of times.
This morning, I started with a NY Times editorial about
the election and "inequities" of the Electoral College,
and then followed Google links to where ever they might lead.
It has been very entertaining ...


NY Times Editorial
Published: November 15, 2012
The Tarnish of the Electoral College


Rolling Stone
Tim Dickinson
November 7, 2012
President Obama's Six Keys to Victory

And then on to a "conservative" take on the election.
This is actually quite a thoughtful article...

NJ.com
November 12, 2012
The GOP's media cocoon

A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over
after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public
with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon
that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating.

GOP officials have chalked up their electoral thumping to everything
from the country's changing demographics to an ill-timed hurricane
and failed voter turn-out system, but a cadre of Republicans under 50
believes the party's problem is even more fundamental.
<snip>
The party is suffering from Pauline Kaelism.

Kael was The New Yorker movie critic who famously said in the wake of Richard M. Nixon's
49-state landslide in 1972 that she knew only one person who voted for Nixon.

But then just to prove the point, there was this...

Politico
11/16/12
Charlie Webster: Sorry for 'black people' claim

Earlier this week, Webster told a local television station that
“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people
who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote,
but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black.”