{"id":16262,"date":"2012-11-10T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16262"},"modified":"2012-11-10T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T10:25:00","slug":"one-final-analysis-of-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16262","title":{"rendered":"One Final Analysis Of The Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best analyses of this year’s Presidential election<\/a> can be found on the Brody File at CBN.com<\/a>. David Brody<\/a> is the political correspondent for CBN and does a very concise job of breaking down the reasons for President Obama’s<\/a> victory. The Brody File is a video about 30 minutes long and is well worth watching.<\/p>\n

David Brody cites three main reasons for Mitt Romney<\/a>‘s loss of the election:<\/p>\n

1. Mitt Romney was the wrong candidate. He was the candidate put forward by the Republican establishment. As a candidate, Mitt Romney was not what the Republican base wanted–he was part of the GOP<\/a> establishment–not the party base. Right now there are some serious gaps between the GOP establishment and the base of the party.<\/p>\n

2. Mitt Romney was defined early by the Obama campaign<\/a>–not by the Romney campaign<\/a>. In April, May and June<\/a>, the Obama campaign ran personal attack ads directed at Mitt Romney defining him as a rich businessman from Bain Capital<\/a> who was going to ship everyone’s job overseas. He was accused of everything from causing a man’s wife to die of cancer to animal abuse. The Romney camp did not respond to the charges at the time, and that image of Mitt Romney was established.<\/p>\n

3. The American<\/a> electorate is changing. The GOP never reached out to the Hispanics, other minorities, or the youth vote. In 1996, 10 percent of American voters were non-whites. In 2012, 21 percent of American voters were non-whites. The Republican campaigns did not take into consideration the fact that the demographics of American voters have changed.<\/p>\n

For me, the bottom line in this election is the split between the Republican establishment and the Tea Party. I voted for Mitt Romney. He is a good man who would have done a good job. However, I would have preferred a candidate who was more clearly a conservative. I believe a true conservative would have beaten Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

I seriously doubt that the Republican establishment has learned from this experience. I suspect that when the new Congress convenes in January, it will have the same Republican leadership. Until we get the establishment out of Washington–both Republican and Democrat establishment–we will continue down the path we are currently on. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Right now that is a pretty good description of the American voter.<\/p>\n

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