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Rove Celebrates "The Two Davids"
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Republican Architect explains what Obama's Plouffe and Axelrod built -- and trashes "wiggly" exit polls. ...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... Karl Rove, fresh from his whirlwind tour of every Fox News show known to man, found time to tell us how Barack Obama won in a "center-right" nation. Center-right nation...you know, it's like "the" math. A fantasy. ...
Rove Says New Voters Key to Obama Victory
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Karl Rove: "Messrs. Plouffe and Axelrod understood that over the last 28 years only
11 of 20 eligible Americans on average cast a presidential ballot. They
focused on registering and motivating the other nine who don't usually
vote. This decision, perhaps more than any other, allowed Mr. Obama to
win such previously red states as Virginia, Indiana, Colorado and
Nevada. It forced Mr. McCain to spend most of the fall on defense,
unable to take once-reliably Republican states for granted." ...
The Early Word: McCain-Palin Post-Mortem
The Caucus —
... “As the first African-Americans in the role, they will be a living tableau of racial progress, and friends say they are acutely aware that everything they say and do — the way they dress, where Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7 , go to school, even what kind of puppy they adopt — will brim with symbolic value.” Rovian Review Karl Rove dissects the election night breakdown that catapulted Mr. Obama into the White House. Downballot Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that with a larger majority the Democrats ...
Karl Rove: Obama’s New Voters Changed Presidential Political Game
The Moderate Voice —
... What’s notable about Rove’s serious piece in the Wall Street Journal is that he analyzes it as one political professional admiringly looking at another political professional. His reaction isn’t filed with the demonizing call-to-political-arms rhetoric that now characterizes talk radio’s reaction to Obama’s win — or the attitude epitmozied by those now ...
Rove: Obama Hoodwinked America Into Electing A Progressive President
Think Progress —
... In today’s Wall Street Journal, Rove argued similarly that Obama ran a center-right campaign that fooled a center-right electorate into supporting him: ...
Remainders: The outside world
Ben Smith's Blog —
Another bad day on Wall Street.
Russia, as Biden predicted, rattles its nuclear sword.
Bob Dylan pauses mid-concert to say "things are going to change now."
Karl Rove says new voters won the election for Obama.
McCain and Palin advisers divulge the nature of the civil war between the candidates.
A Muslim teenager on Staten Island says white men beat him after the news of Obama's win.
Italy's Prime Minister says Obama is handsome, young and suntanned.
Michael Walzer: ...
Karl Rove Praises Obama’s Campaign Team
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... Plouffe and Axelrod understood that over the last 28 years only 11 of 20 eligible Americans on average cast a presidential ballot. They focused on registering and motivating the other nine who don’t usually vote. This decision, perhaps more than any other, allowed Mr. Obama to win such previously red states as Virginia, Indiana, Colorado and Nevada. It forced Mr. McCain to spend most of the fall on defense, unable to take once-reliably Republican states for granted.
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Dissecting Leftism — ... The article below is written by the Chief Reporter for Britain's leading conservative newspaper. It addresses matters that U.S. commentators tend to slide over (out of political correctness) but which need mentioning, in my view. There have been many knowledgeable analyses of the demographics behind Obama's victory (e.g. by Karl Rove) but to me they seem unable to see the forest for the trees. The plain fact is that there is large population growth in segments of the population who are systematically hostile to the GOP and it is difficult to see a way around that. Will Obama ...
The big picture: America is no longer ruled by whites
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
The article below is written by the Chief Reporter for Britain's leading conservative newspaper. It addresses matters that U.S. commentators tend to slide over (out of political correctness) but which need mentioning, in my view. There have been many knowledgeable analyses of the demographics behind Obama's victory (e.g. by Karl Rove) but to me they seem unable to see the forest for the trees. The plain fact is that there is large population growth in segments of the population who are systematically hostile to the GOP and it is difficult to see a way around that. Will ...
The big picture: America is no longer ruled by whites
Stop The ACLU —
The article below is written by the Chief Reporter for Britain’s leading conservative newspaper. It addresses matters that U.S. commentators tend to slide over (out of political correctness) but which need mentioning, in my view. There have been many knowledgeable analyses of the demographics behind Obama’s victory (e.g. by Karl Rove ) but to me they seem unable to see the forest for the trees. The plain fact is that there is large population growth in segments of the population who are systematically hostile to the GOP and it is difficult to see a way around that. Will Obama ...
