[FairfieldLife] Re: Conservative Big-Wigs are Clueless

2016-01-23 Thread emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interesting and good points on the power of "narratives" and how they are crafted. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Why We Lose: National Review Launches Victorian-Era Attack On Donald Trump by John Nolte, 22 Jan 2016 Whatever you might think of National

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Conservative Big-Wigs are Clueless

2016-01-23 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
airfieldLife] Re: Conservative Big-Wigs are Clueless   When Obama ran for his second term it seems to have been taken for granted, even by Republicans, that he would win. In that case, thought I at the time, wouldn't it have been a smart move to have Sarah Palin as the rival candida

[FairfieldLife] Re: Conservative Big-Wigs are Clueless

2016-01-23 Thread feste37
Your cunning plan does not pass muster, I'm afraid. Republicans did not assume Obama was going to win in 2012. On the contrary, they thought right up to the last minute that their candidate Romney would win. They saw Obama as a failed, unpopular Jimmy Carter-type one-term president. Boy, did

[FairfieldLife] Re: Conservative Big-Wigs are Clueless

2016-01-23 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
When Obama ran for his second term it seems to have been taken for granted, even by Republicans, that he would win. In that case, thought I at the time, wouldn't it have been a smart move to have Sarah Palin as the rival candidate. Why so? Well, if the candidate is going to lose

[FairfieldLife] Re: Conservative Big-Wigs are Clueless

2016-01-23 Thread emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From Huffington Post re: the 2008 election: "Clinton got 83 percent of the black vote in 1992 and 84 percent in 1996; the third-party candidate Ross Perot probably sliced away some of Clinton's black support. Al Gore got 90 percent in 2000; John Kerry got 88 percent in 2004. Obama captured