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Meghan McCain is on Anderson Live today (daytime TV with Anderson Cooper), talking about the election and such. Holy god damn I'd vote for her so hard.

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Part of me kinda wonders why the Republicans didn't use the slogan "OBAMANATION" (Abomination) against him, like Obama used Romnesia (Amnesia).

I guess it would have been too creative for them.

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Compared with the Republicans he IS centre. Or, arguably, they're both right wing.

Obama is, relative to the rest of the planet, center-right, and the Republicans are leaning far-right. What they're wanting is for Obama to move toward their far right position, essentially becoming Republican in all but name, as opposed to moving closer to an actual centrist standpoint. Obviously Obama won't go for it, and they know that, which they might use as a pretext for further assholery

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http://www.cincinnatiteaparty.org/

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Oklahoma is the reddest state in the nation now, but I haven't seen any harsh reactions today - may be due to living in one of the more liberal areas of the state. Friends in other parts of the state have witnessed riots though, so it may be a while before this subsides.

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Part of me kinda wonders why the Republicans didn't use the slogan "OBAMANATION" (Abomination) against him, like Obama used Romnesia (Amnesia).

My guess is that it would have been too confusing, possibly giving the impression that they were supporting an Obama Nation.

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How long before some gun-toting redneck from out in the sticks heads to a Democratic county and shoots up the place?

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How long before some gun-toting redneck from out in the sticks heads to a Democratic county and shoots up the place?

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A selection of Nugent tweets from Election Night:

Vote for Obama & vote for US Constitution hating SCOTUS crazies

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 6, 2012

So Obama still demands the hardest workers provide for the nonworkers. Shared opportunities my ass

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012

What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birth control abortions & lives

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012

Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012

So 4 SCOTUS idiots dont believe in self defense. Pure evil

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012

I cry tears of blood for The Last Best Place & the warriors who died for this tragedy

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012

Strange man.

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http://www.cincinnatiteaparty.org/

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Oklahoma is the reddest state in the nation now, but I haven't seen any harsh reactions today - may be due to living in one of the more liberal areas of the state. Friends in other parts of the state have witnessed riots though, so it may be a while before this subsides.

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Watching C-Span right now, and the head of Conservative HQ has proclaimed that this elections signifies the end of "Big-government Republicanism," and that they will no longer vote for someone who embraces such an ideology.

Sounds like a precursor for the 2016 election environment.

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Watching C-Span right now, and the head of Conservative HQ has proclaimed that this elections signifies the end of "Big-government Republicanism," and that they will no longer vote for someone who embraces such an ideology.

Sounds like a precursor for the 2016 election environment.

Looks like America truly is moving forward.

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Obamanation sounds like the name of a publicity stunt for a video game.

Could be the name of a political MMORPG. A really, really boring one.

Interesting possibilities surround the 2016 election (other than candidates): Arizona, Texas and Georgia, previously safe red states, may be in play, due to huge demographic changes that have been happening; namely, the explosion in their Latino populations. Unless the GOP really turns itself into a champion of immigration reform, minorities, the poor etc, those states stand a much greater chance than in recent elections of going blue. Also, again due to their changing demographies, some previous battleground states may now be becoming firmly blue states.

Marco Rubio therefore makes sense as a Presidential or Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2016 - he's Latino and from Florida, which would give him a lot of weight among those states with increasing Latino populations, particularly in the south and west. Jeb Bush also makes sense for them - his wife is Mexican, he has been an outspoken advocate of immigration reform, and held back from endorsing Romney for a long time because of his views on immigration.

Similarly for the Democrats, Joaquin Castro makes good sense for a candidate if they are serious about keeping hold of the Latino vote and taking more southern states.

If the Republicans don't severely modernize their election ground game and change their policies regarding immigration, minorities etc, we should look forward to 8 more years of Democrat presidencies while the Republicans sort their shit out among themselves.

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Alternatively, the Republicans could remain a major contender because some people will defect.

Steve Schmidt, a top Republican strategist who ran John McCain’s 2008 campaign, invoked the term on MSNBC this morning. “When I talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, what I mean is, it’s time for Republican elected leaders to stand up and to repudiate this nonsense [of the extreme right wing], and to repudiate it directly,” he said.

But on the other side of the fight, Herman Cain, the former presidential candidate who still has a robust following via his popular talk radio program and speaking tours, today suggested the most clear step to open civil war: secession. Appearing on Bryan Fischer’s radio program this afternoon, Cain called for a large faction of Republican Party leaders to desert the party and form a third, more conservative party.

“I never thought that I would say this, and this is the first time publicly that I’ve said it: We need a third party to save this country. Not Ron Paul and the Ron Paulites. No. We need a legitimate third party to challenge the current system that we have, because I don’t believe that the Republican Party … has the ability to rebrand itself,” Cain said.

Fischer, a social conservative leader, noted that he predicted this summer that if Mitt Romney loses, evangelical conservatives would start a third party. “If Barack Obama wins this election the Republican Party as we know it is finished, it is dead, it is toast,” Fischer said in September at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.

Rush Limabugh, two months ago, echoed the sentiment. ”If Obama wins, let me tell you what it’s the end of: the Republican Party. There’s gonna be a third party that’s gonna be oriented toward conservatism,” he said.

“It is more viable today than it has ever been,” Cain told Fischer today of a third party.

After the GOP’s crushing 2008 loss, there was lots of talk about a new third party. When the Tea Party emerged, this talk almost became a reality. Instead, the conservative activists opted for a hostile takeover of the GOP. It’s still very unlikely that Cain or anyone else could start a viable third party, but his comments underscore the cleavage within the conservative movement in the wake of the defeat last night.

http://www.salon.com..._for_3rd_party/

A Democratic Party v. Republican Party v. "Tea" Party could be a possibility in 2016.

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It's certain that the outcome of this election will mark the beginning of the biggest metamorphosis of America's right wing since the Reagan years. The biggest thing the GOP should have realized after this election cycle is that American social conservatism is dying and they need to distance themselves from it. Whatever happens between now and 2016, same-sex marriage, immigration reform and abortion rights will have no less support than they do today.

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A Democratic Party v. Republican Party v. "Tea" Party could be a possibility in 2016.

The Republican party splintering off something fierce would make presidential elections even more untenable for them because it would lessen the main party's consolidated power, which is why I'm not expecting that to happen much less work out well, although it would be an absolutely glorious thing to see. Talk about just handing elections to the Dems. What they ultimately need to do is just drop the socially conservative craziness and stop betraying their supposed fiscal conservatism principles with the Reagonomics nonsense Ryan and his ilk keep trying to push.

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How long before some gun-toting redneck from out in the sticks heads to a Democratic county and shoots up the place?

Let's not tempt fate.

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Marco Rubio therefore makes sense as a Presidential or Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2016 - he's Latino and from Florida

Similarly for the Democrats, Joaquin Castro makes good sense for a candidate if they are serious about keeping hold of the Latino vote and taking more southern states.

Rubio vs. Castro would be AMAZING. I like both and I don't even speak Spanish!

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How long before some gun-toting redneck from out in the sticks heads to a Democratic county and shoots up the place?

I'm from Kansas and find this highly offensive brb killing myself

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Romney Death Rally? Not quite sure I'm familiar with that. Is it related to Romney supporters claiming America is dead since Obama (OBUMMER/NOBAMA) was re-elected?

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Speaking of milestones, I didn't even know it but, Massachusetts elected their first woman senator ever last night. I was surprised by this but, I suppose I should not have really been, considering we had Ted Kennedy representing us for I can't even remember how long.

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Speaking of milestones, I didn't even know it but, Massachusetts elected their first woman senator ever last night. I was surprised by this but, I suppose I should not have really been, considering we had Ted Kennedy representing us for I can't even remember how long.

It makes sense really. It wasn't an anti-woman bias by voters but people in general there being Ted supporters. Apart from his first senate campaign and the time he ran against Mitt Romney, he got over 60% of the vote. Many times getting over 70%. That was one popular politician.

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