Tag: John McCain

President Barack Obama won reelection because he energized liberals and expanded the electorate by finding and turning out his base, especially black voters.  Nowhere was this more evident than in Ohio, where black turnout increased by four percentage points from

Republicans did terribly across the board among all minority groups in the 2012 election, but there was a very small silver lining among young black voters. Republicans still lost African American voters aged 18-29 by 83 points, but this represented

President Barack Obama won Hispanics in 2012 by 44 points (71%-27%) over Mitt Romney, as Latino voters continued the trend of voting for Democrats in greater numbers over the past decade.  In 2004, 44% of Hispanics voted for the Republican

Even after President Barack Obama and his allies spent over $1 billion to get him re-elected, Obama’s top strategist David Axelrod said to reporters on Thursday that one of the key lessons from the 2012 campaign was that candidates could

As Republicans try to explain their Election Day losses in terms of policy, tactics, and strategy, one factor is emerging as the essential difference between the Obama and Romney campaigns on November 6: the absolute failure of Romney’s get-out-the-vote effort,

Despite all the talk about voter intensity surrounding the presidential election, 13 million fewer people voted in 2012 than in 2008.  131 million voters cast their ballots in the 2008 election in which Barack Obama defeated John McCain by a

Andrew always pointed out that politics was far downstream from media and pop culture. By ceding the media and pop culture space, conservatives were always at an extreme disadvantage whenever a specific political debate arose. They could occasionally win certain

An American Research Group (ARG) poll before Election Day shows Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama by one point in Iowa. The partisan breakdown of the poll is D+1 (36% Democrats, 35% Republican, 29% Independent), and Romney leads Obama by one

Republicans are counting on turnout and enthusiasm to win Tuesday’s elections–and if the overflow crowd at a Los Angeles call center today is any indication, they have plenty of both. The Get-Out-the-Vote (GOTV) call center, set up by the Republican

Artur Davis commented Wednesday that Democrats are “panicked” over early voting numbers for next week’s election. The former Alabama Congressman and Democrat-turned-Republican explained that the depressed early voting numbers for Democrats are very important because Democrats typically “put a lot of stock

A huge crowd greeted Mitt Romney at a Thursday morning campaign event inside a window manufacturing plant in Roanoke, Virginia. The local Roanoke Times reported the story: A fired-up Mitt Romney rallied a crowd of just under 3,000 in Roanoke County

Mitt Romney will return to Virginia on Thursday with three campaign stops, hoping to close the deal with the state’s voters and move them solidly into his column.   Romney will make campaign stops in Roanoke, Richmond and Virginia Beach. 

As the CorruptMedia hyperventilates over the juicery released by Quinnipiac today showing Obama winning all of America’s 12,458  electoral votes and Queen for a Day, the one poll they’ve intentionally ignored is a bombshell from Gallup showing Romney winning early

In key swing states, the vaunted Obama ground game is being out-worked and out-organized by a loosely knit coalition of volunteer grassroots activists (both local and out-of-state), traditional conservative organizations like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and the local and

Based on absolutely no reliable science, snide leftists are now emerging from the woodwork to claim that Hurricane Sandy is George W. Bush’s fault. Or, at least, the fault of Republicans who suggest that global warming is a hoax. Global