crooksandliars.com - 11/6/2008
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We knew beforehand that the Latino vote was going to be a major player in the 2008 election. And they were: About two-thirds of Hispanics voted for Obama, decisively surpassing the 53 percent who voted for Democrat John Kerry in 2004, exit polls showed. That year Bush enjoyed a high-water mark ...
americanthinker.com - 11/5/2008
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americanthinker.com —
John McCain's incoherent, C- campaign did not deserve
to win the Presidency this year. On the other...
hand, America doesn't deserve the punishment an Obama presidency is about to inflict upon us.
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Why McCain Lost
the-reaction.blogspot.com - 11/12/2008
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the-reaction.blogspot.com —
By Michael J.W. Stickings Believe it or not,
yes (like Maine, Nebraska apportions its electoral votes by...
congressional district): [Obama's] odds of bagging an electoral vote in Nebraska grew stronger this morning, with word that 10,000 to ...
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Could Obama actually win an electoral vote in Nebraska?
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The electoral muscle behind the big win: Latinos
Orcinus —
... Mark Warner in VA, Jeanne Shaheen in NH, Mark Udall in CO, Kay Hagan in NC, and Tom Udall in NM. This all happened, as a few news stories noted, because of the Republican brand -- not just the conservative malfeasance in handling of the economy, but most of all the flaming bigotry that the GOP provided a cozy political home for these past several years. Also, McCain's two-faced strategy was a loser from the outset. [Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars.]
The Latino Vote: Can Democrats lock it up for a generation?
Crooks and Liars —
One aspect of the 2008 election outcome that will likely have real long-term consequences for the nation's political alignment is the emergence of the power of the Latino vote . It's looking increasingly as though Latinos have moved semi-permanently into the Democrats' column, in large part because the Republican brand has been semi-permanently tainted with the ugly nativist bigotry that has immersed movement conservatism. It certainly played a significant role in ...
Latino Vote: Can Democrats lock it up for a generation?
Orcinus —
... One aspect of the 2008 election outcome that will likely have real long-term consequences for the nation's political alignment is the emergence of the power of the Latino vote. ...
Huckabee puts Coulter on the spot, but still kisses her spiked heel
Crooks and Liars —
... stance on illegal immigration.
Indeed, I think we can count on a hard nativist-style stance on immigration to be one of the signature positions of the brand of conservatism that will emerge from the ashes of 2008. We keep hearing conservatives tell themselves that the reason they lost last year was that they weren't "true to conservative values," and this will be one of the issues that they will use to define "true conservatives" (as Coulter does here).
We can only say: Please. Make our day. Far be it from us to stop you, O denizens of wingnuttia. ...
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