Kusadikika wrote:Spend.thrift wrote:Tokyo wrote:Finally Meat Roaming concedes.
I think this 'tight race' was nothing but media creation. But somehow it helped to diffuse overconfidence (remeand ensure Democrats, especially the African Americans turned up in large numbers to vote.
I also suspect that there could be silent celebration in the Republican camp. Obama has helped them (Republicans) get rid of McCain and Romney (as far as I know they can not run again). The Democrats may want to ensure that Obama passes on the baton to another Democrat in 2016(Hillary Clinton is a very likely successor) but it is also likely that a serious Republican contender will emerge in the next two years.
I think 2016 will be the best chance for another Bush, JEB BUSH former governor of Florida. He is his dads favorite son and is said to be a lot smarter than his elder brother George W.
If Republicans remain who they are, they will still be beaten by a Democrat. America is becoming less and less while the republican party is becoming more and more white. Picture this in 2004, George W. Bush got 44% of Hispanics's vote. 2008 John McCain, (remember the immigration reform bill) got 31% of this vote. Today Romney managed a measly 27% hispanic vote. And for the 2nd consecutive presidential election, a Republican candidate lost among women and young voters in the states that decided the election. One senatorial candidate was close to win but the comment about women having natural defences against pregnancy from 'legitimate' rape earned him a gross flop in a Republican stronghold. If the likes of Romney and McCain are the strong candidates in GoP and assuming there's more of that type where they came from, any Democrat candidate contending for 2016 will have his or her way with voters.