Wednesday, November 7, 2012

so they did


if they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy
mitt romney
july 11, 2012
Posted by mkf at 1:01 PM
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4 comments:

Will said...

New England is especially celebrating Romney's defeat. His governorship of Massachusetts left a very sour taste in many mouths.

November 8, 2012 at 6:28 AM
mkf said...

will: i can understand reveling in a despised politician's defeat; what is puzzling to me is the number of people who seem truly enthusiastic about this particular incumbent's victory.

November 8, 2012 at 2:08 PM
noblesavage said...

Well, guttermorality politics has always been a interesting blend of both strands of the Republican party coalition: libertarianism and moralism.

But if you look at the data, people did not vote for Obama because he thought they would get something (that would be Hugo Chavez in Venezuela or other elections left unsaid where new kitchen appliances appear before election day).

People voted for Obama because they appeared to actually be concerned about average people. Romney did not. If that's voting self-interest, then that's the way voters have acted for centuries.

November 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Babe said...

David Brooks (not a liberal) wrote an interesting article about the GOP not understanding that a large number of hard-working Asian and Hispanic voters do not see the government as an evil bureaucracy trying to clog the system, but as a helpful system that can actually "incite hard work". Oddly enough, a few white liberals feel the same way... despite the fact that I know so many people who feel government is just one giant hairball in the bathtub drain of life.

November 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM

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