Election 2012
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Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, won among voters over the age of 30, but lost younger voters by 23 points. That statistic has gotten a lot of attention from Republicans, especially since they have now lost young voters in three presidential elections in a row. They worry that voting Democratic could be habit-forming for this generation.
How little things have changed for Republicans in 20 years.
I wish more Republicans were like Barack Obama. Really. Give the president his due: he fights for what he believes in.
President Obama’s victory in November resolves whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be implemented. In general terms, it will. But that does not settle what will actually become of the law.
By all accounts, President Obama won the fiscal-cliff showdown. Why anyone would take much pride in this kind of “win” is beyond me. It’s a bit like being the least filthy toddler in the mud pit.
No presidential candidate has run a campaign as aggressively supportive of abortion as the one Barack Obama did this year.
In combing through the results of the 2012 election -- apparently finally complete, nearly two months after the fact -- I continue to find many similarities between 2012 and 2004 and one enormous difference.
Conservatives are deeply frustrated at the 2012 election’s outcome, after years of work and investment. Some blame the candidate, or the conduct of the campaign; others focus on demographics.
