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I think you're oversimplifying things a bit here. I mean, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that 48% of US voters are Democrats and 39% are Republicans, right? Maybe if the Republican Party would quit pandering to the far religious right and put a stop to that silly little tea party of theirs, alienated Republicans and centrists would start voting for the R again.

 

 

 

I think that you are oversimplifying things.  Republicans hold the majority of gubernatorial seats.  We hold the majority of state legislatures.  We hold the majority in the House of representatives.  We hold the majority in the Senate.  What's the one outlier to the past 6 years of electoral results?  The most unique presidential candidate in history (which of these things is not like the other.)  

 

This is why on the republican side you have such a diversity of people running for president (governors from Blue states and Tea Party Senators)

 

Obama's status as a historical figure coupled with 47%, the worst tax plan ever asserted by a Republican candidate, the walk on the beach, and his natural charisma when reading form a TelePrompter allowed him to survive as president when every metric on the economy predicted a republican victory.  If you take his win in 2012 to mean that you are going to get the same mix of traditional non voters to turn out for this slate of geriatric park then i think there is a chance for a huge let down next november.  

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