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Tomorrow’s headline: Romney Wins! Republicans take control of Congress!
Mitt Romney shocked Democrats across America with an overwhelming
Electoral College victory, taking Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania to go
with a reconsolidated South by restoring North Carolina, Virginia and
Florida into the Republican electoral ranks.
Harry Reid’s hopes
of continuing as majority leader are quashed as George Allen, Denny
Rehberg, Josh Mandel, Connie Mack, Tommy Thompson, Tom Smith and, yes,
Todd Akin all ended up sweeping their Democratic opponents out of
office.
And Nancy Pelosi is expected to retire after a bruising loss in her attempt to retake the House, as House Democrats scramble to find new leadership in what is likely to become a long stay in the minority.
Savvy Democrat politicians like Bill Clinton can win because, having grown up in Southern politics, they speak the language of a center-right country even if they don’t govern from that position.
Obama’s real revolution was that for the first time in 50 years, he was able to win election by running as a liberal candidate. However, Obama’s reelection was doomed when he chose to double down on the language of the left, running a divisive campaign based upon class warfare.
When Obama took this hard-left tack, he dragged his down-ticket team, and they couldn’t escape from it. A senator like Jon Tester could not pretend to be a conservative to voters in Montana, because Obama’s rhetoric would not let him. Instead, he became a proxy for Obama, and paid the price at the polls.
And that was the case in state after state.
Some might call the above article wishful thinking, but if you are going to be a political pundit, you need to have the guts to write a post-election column before a single ballot is counted.
Rick Manning (@rmanning957) is the communications director of Americans for Limited Government.
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