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defrogHow the Democrats feel right now.
How the Republicans feel right now.
How Obama feels right now.
How dEFROG feels right now.
Ha ha. Just kidding.
Anyway, I don’t have much to say about Obama’s victory, and most of what I could say, John Scalzi has kindly typed out for me.
I’m more interested in some of the other results:
ITEM: The Democrats not only held the Senate but actually gained two seats.
ITEM: The GOP still rules the house, but by a slightly slimmer majority.
ITEM: America gets to laugh at Florida again.
ITEM: Pretty much all of the Republican candidates who went around saying incredibly stupid and ignorant things about rape lost their races.
ITEM: It’s legal to be gay and married in Maryland and Maine.
ITEM: It’s legal to smoke grass for fun in Colorado and Washington state.
ITEM: A record number of women are now serving in Congress.
ITEM: And one of them is a lesbian.
ITEM: And of the two women from Hawaii, one is a Buddhist and the first Asian-American woman to serve in the Senate, and the other is a Hindu who will be sworn in on a copy of the Bhagavad Gita.
ITEM: Fox News went apeshit on Election Night.
ITEM: To say nothing of Donald Trump.
ITEM: And Victoria Jackson.
ITEM: And pretty much the entire wingnut faction that arguably cost the Republicans dearly this year (oh, just Google it).
All of which is likely to be mistaken by liberals as a huge shift to the Left for America. That’s probably overstating things. For a start, Obama won by 70 less electoral votes than he did in 2008, and gained less of the pop vote (50.4%, compared to 53% four years ago) for a much narrower spread (Romney got 48% of the vote, compared to McCain’s 45.7% in 2008).
[NOTE: Numbers subject to change once Florida gets its crap together.]
If the results suggest anything, it’s that a slim majority of Americans aren’t interested in ideological batshit. I do think Romney was hurt in part by the company he keeps, and if the GOP leadership has any sense at all, they will spend the next four years prying the Tea Party, the Christian Coalition and Rush Limbaugh off its leg, and rebuilding its brand as a party that knows how to haggle and isn't all that hung up over things like who you want to marry.
(And John Scalzi has saved me a lot of typing on that score too.)
Or, failing that, at least they could rebrand themselves as the party that shares the same general perception of reality as the rest of us. Or can at least admit that math does not have a liberal bias.
On the other hand, Michele Bachmann is still a House Rep. And as long as Fox News continues to do what it does, there will always be a constituency for her and people like her. Between that and the fact that Romney and the fringe wingnuts lost by very slim margins, I reckon they’ll chalk it up to faulty strategies or not enough money or some grand conspiracy by non-white atheists to steal the election or whatever, and look to the mid-terms and 2016 with grand plans to pull the country back their ideological reality bubble where they think everyone else thinks it belongs.
Assuming Obama doesn’t destroy America first. You know, like he did his first term.
Change you can’t believe in,
This is dF
How the Republicans feel right now.
How Obama feels right now.
How dEFROG feels right now.
Ha ha. Just kidding.
Anyway, I don’t have much to say about Obama’s victory, and most of what I could say, John Scalzi has kindly typed out for me.
I’m more interested in some of the other results:
ITEM: The Democrats not only held the Senate but actually gained two seats.
ITEM: The GOP still rules the house, but by a slightly slimmer majority.
ITEM: America gets to laugh at Florida again.
ITEM: Pretty much all of the Republican candidates who went around saying incredibly stupid and ignorant things about rape lost their races.
ITEM: It’s legal to be gay and married in Maryland and Maine.
ITEM: It’s legal to smoke grass for fun in Colorado and Washington state.
ITEM: A record number of women are now serving in Congress.
ITEM: And one of them is a lesbian.
ITEM: And of the two women from Hawaii, one is a Buddhist and the first Asian-American woman to serve in the Senate, and the other is a Hindu who will be sworn in on a copy of the Bhagavad Gita.
ITEM: Fox News went apeshit on Election Night.
ITEM: To say nothing of Donald Trump.
ITEM: And Victoria Jackson.
ITEM: And pretty much the entire wingnut faction that arguably cost the Republicans dearly this year (oh, just Google it).
All of which is likely to be mistaken by liberals as a huge shift to the Left for America. That’s probably overstating things. For a start, Obama won by 70 less electoral votes than he did in 2008, and gained less of the pop vote (50.4%, compared to 53% four years ago) for a much narrower spread (Romney got 48% of the vote, compared to McCain’s 45.7% in 2008).
[NOTE: Numbers subject to change once Florida gets its crap together.]
If the results suggest anything, it’s that a slim majority of Americans aren’t interested in ideological batshit. I do think Romney was hurt in part by the company he keeps, and if the GOP leadership has any sense at all, they will spend the next four years prying the Tea Party, the Christian Coalition and Rush Limbaugh off its leg, and rebuilding its brand as a party that knows how to haggle and isn't all that hung up over things like who you want to marry.
(And John Scalzi has saved me a lot of typing on that score too.)
Or, failing that, at least they could rebrand themselves as the party that shares the same general perception of reality as the rest of us. Or can at least admit that math does not have a liberal bias.
On the other hand, Michele Bachmann is still a House Rep. And as long as Fox News continues to do what it does, there will always be a constituency for her and people like her. Between that and the fact that Romney and the fringe wingnuts lost by very slim margins, I reckon they’ll chalk it up to faulty strategies or not enough money or some grand conspiracy by non-white atheists to steal the election or whatever, and look to the mid-terms and 2016 with grand plans to pull the country back their ideological reality bubble where they think everyone else thinks it belongs.
Assuming Obama doesn’t destroy America first. You know, like he did his first term.
Change you can’t believe in,
This is dF
