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LMAO: Karl Rove Accuses the Obama Campaign of “Suppressing the Vote”

November 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
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LMAO:  Karl Rove Accuses the Obama Campaign of “Suppressing the Vote”  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

HUBRIS:  Karl Rove, who tried to influence the presidential election with his American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS super PACs, is crying foul, saying the Obama campaign “succeeded in suppressing the vote.” Um, funny he should use the word suppressing, since it’s evident from the deliberate actions by Republican leaders in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania to suppress voters. I also didn’t realize Karl Rove was the spokesman for the Republican Party, but then again, in an earlier post, I said the GOP had a Karl Rove problem.

Karl Rove defended Republicans’ work this election cycle, arguing that President Obama only won by making neither candidate look palatable and that Mitt Romney, not outside groups, should have fought back harder.

The president’s campaign “succeeded by suppressing the vote,” Rove told Fox News. “They effectively denigrated Mitt Romney’s character, business acumen, experience.” Source

LMAO: Karl Rove Accuses the Obama Campaign of Suppressing the Vote
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Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden-Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obama’s Reelection

November 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obamas Reelection

Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden-Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obama’s Reelection (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The right wing must be really proud because protests over President Obama’s reelection erupted at another institution of higher learning — Hampden-Sydney College. According to the Huffington Post, about 40 students shouted racial slurs, threw bottles and set off fireworks outside the Minority Student Union hours after President Obama won the presidential election.

Hampden-Sydney College President Chris Howard said in an email to parents Thursday that the disturbance early Wednesday also included threats of physical violence.

Howard is the college’s first African-American president. He said in the email that he was disappointed in the “harmful, senseless episode” and that bigotry has no place on the campus of 1,080. About 9 percent are black. Source

Well, the same thing erupted at the University of Mississippi, that has had an ugly past of overt racism, that led to the National Guard coming out to ensure the safety of its first black student James Meredith.

Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obamas Reelection
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Romney Campaign Concedes “We Lost Florida,” Brings Obama’s Electoral Votes to 332

November 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The Romney campaign conceded that “we lost Florida,” giving President Obama 29 more electoral votes. President Obama now wins reelection with 332 Electoral College votes. Um, Dick Morris predicted a landslide but in the wrong direction.

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Franklin Graham: Obama’s Reelection Sends America Further Down Path of Destruction

November 8, 2012 by 1 Comment

Another right wing evangelical, besides Dr. Charles Stanley, is giving his two cents about President Obama winning reelection: Franklin Graham says the “election will lead America further down a path of destruction, WCNC reports. Really? This is why people are turned off by organized religion. Franklin Graham, like Charles Stanley, should give up the tax exempt status they enjoy, since they are going to take a political position on the issues.  He accused President Obama of  ”waving his fist before God” by supporting abortion rights and same-sex marriage. He added: “I want to warn America: God is coming around. He will judge sin, and it won’t be pretty.”

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The Republican Party has a Big Problem Named Karl Rove

November 8, 2012 by 2 Comments

QUOTE OF THE DAY:  Rove spends more for Republican candidates than the NRSC and the NRCC. He’s running things. Rove is definitely a problem.”

– GOP strategist Rick Tyler, interviewed by BuzzFeed, on the power of Karl Rove in the Republican party.

My two cents:  From his questionable relationship with Fox News and his on-air confrontation with voting analysts at the network over calling Ohio for President Obama, as well as the super PACs he is connected with, it is evident that the Republican Party has a problem named Karl Rove. It’s hysterically funny that he spent millions to defeat President Obama and other Democratic candidates and they all won. His negative ads had virtually no effect on how people voted.

The reality the Republican Party faces is two-fold — the  dark money and Super PACs didn’t deter voters from supporting President Obama and his win leaves them with a demographic dilemma:

If Prince William looks like the future of the country, Democrats have so far developed a much more successful strategy of appealing to that future. On Tuesday, President Obama beat Mitt Romney by almost 15 percentage points in Prince William, nearly doubling George W. Bush’s margin over Al Gore in 2000, helping Mr. Obama to a surprisingly large victory in Virginia.

He did it not only by winning Hispanic voters, but also by winning strong majorities of the growing number of Asian-American voters and of voters under age 40. A version of his coalition in Virginia — a combination of minorities, women and younger adults — also helped Mr. Obama win Colorado, Nevada and perhaps Florida, which remained too close to call. He came close in North Carolina, a reliable state for Republican presidential nominees only a few years ago that he narrowly won in 2008.

The demographic changes in the American electorate have come with striking speed and have left many Republicans, who have not won as many electoral votes as Mr. Obama did on Tuesday in 24 years, concerned about their future. The Republicans’ Southern strategy, of appealing mostly to white voters, appears to have run into a demographic wall.

American Crossroads pro-GOP expenses:  http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cmte=C00487363&cycle=2012.

Crossroads GPS pro-GOP expenses:  http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cmte=C90011719&cycle=2012

 

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