"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
Thursday, November 07, 2024
Bye bye, Barack
Bye bye, Barack - American Thinker https://t.co/AHRr0k3fhX
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 7, 2024
Maybe former President Obama got the message when he spoke to African Americans in Philadelphia. The thrill is gone. The racialist policies just don't work anymore. People are tired of hearing sermons from former presidents with mansions and First Ladies who sent their kids to expensive private schools.
We saw on Election Day the end of Obama as a candidate. His "emerging majority" did not emerge, as David Weigel pointed out:
Republicans ended election night confident that they would win the presidency, flip the Senate, and perhaps narrowly hold the House of Representatives. In Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s most famous supporters were talking about winning the popular vote, a mandate that MAGA couldn’t grab in two prior presidential campaigns.
The apparent result means the defeat of a strategy that nearly all Democrats embraced after the 2016 election: Delivering populist labor, tax, and healthcare policies that they thought could win back Obama-Trump voters and stop any more losses with non-white voters.
That was not enough for swing voters, who never stopped crediting Trump with pre-COVID economic growth while absolving him for his handling of the pandemic. And that angst cut across racial lines -- along with anger at progressive crime and immigration policies that Vice President Kamala Harris abandoned before running.
To be fair, maybe no one could have saved the Democrats from the failure of the Biden presidency. Maybe it was too much to expect that a former president would save a candidate trying to defend a candidate who couldn't answer a complex situation.
Nevertheless, the Democrats need to look for new faces and different speakers at their next convention. The Obama coalition based on identity politics, green energy and taxing the rich is history. I have a feeling that Governor Josh Shapiro is not going to ask the Obamas or Clintons to speak on his behalf the next time around.
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1972: Nixon reelected in landslide!
The campaign was dominated by the war in Vietnam. However, President Nixon withdrew most of the troops and the war not the issue that the Democrats expected. Also, Senator McGovern was branded as a liberal and flopped in most of the country.
Happy # 82 Johnny Rivers
Rivers recorded a very popular live album with covers of "Memphis" (Chuck Berry), "Mountain of Love" & "The Seventh Son". It was great dancing music.
After that, he had a string of great songs like "Secret agent man", "Poor side of town" and "Summer rain".
In the 1970's he came back to the charts with "Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu".
His songs always bring a memory of this or that.
FDR re-elected in 1940 & 1944
President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented 3rd and 4th terms on this day in history.
By 1940, the big issue was the growing crisis in Europe rather than the economic depression that elected him in 1932. By 1944, he was the commander in chief of a nation at war.
FDR died a month after he was inaugurated for a fourth term in 1945.
What a weekend to remember Reagan!
Finally, in late October, Reagan capitulated to Carter’s preconditions and met him one time, face to face, without Anderson present.In other words, until the very last week of the campaign, Reagan had an uphill fight. True, he eventually won a landslide victory in the Electoral College (489 to 49) and beat Carter handily in the popular vote. Yet Reagan only received a 51-percent majority.What had saved Reagan from a perfect storm of negative factors – gaffes, additional conservative candidates on the ballot, a single debate, and a biased media – was not just the debate. Voter turnout was relatively low at only 53 percent. If Reagan’s conservative base was united and energized, Carter’s proved divided and indifferent.
Election night 2012 and we are still a very divided country
Am I disappointed? Yes! Am I disappointed that we did so poorly with the US Senate? Yes! Yes!
So what happened?
Let's give Pres BO credit for getting his voters out. At the same time, he also ran a very negative campaign that divided the country with class warfare rhetoric.
Also, the election is basically a tie on the popular vote! Pres BO is the first president reelected with lower numbers, i.e. 49 vs 53% in 2008 & less EV's too.
The question is where do we go from here?
We have a very divided country and a president who has shown no desire to work with those he disagrees with.
Am I pessimistic tonight? No but we are in for a very tough time.