The Republicans need someone to drag them, kicking and screaming, into the future. Someone who isn’t fraid to tell Rush Limbaugh, the de facto leader of the party, to shut his crazy extremist piehole. You know who I really liked? McCain in 1999, way before he sold his soul in 2008, when he really was a maverick. When he called the Christian Coalition a bunch of hypocrites back in ’99, I gave money to a political campaign for the first time ever. He had cojones. Then he snipped them off.

Regardless, a sizable number of Cuban-Americans, especially those under 30, are rejecting the Jurassic Park politics of their parents and especially their grandparents. Obama took 40% of the Cuban vote in 2008. I’m going to be interested to see how that went last night.

Disagree completely on Chuck Todd. He understands the numbers and what they mean, can explain them in plain English, and clearly enjoys the inside game of politics. And, in his spare time, he reports from The White House.

It’s funny that you said the reproducing thing b/c one of our state legislators got in trouble a few years back for bad-mouthing the Catholic church by claiming that all their new members were “illegals” (code: Hispanic) — and that his denomination (Baptist) was handling immigration properly. He’s now on trial for bribery and has left office.

He’s been eerily quiet on his Facebook page today.

Snicker, snicker.

This (above essentially everything else)…sums it up most succinctly. Well done Inda.

I will add with roughly 4,000,000 more registered Hispanic voters this election how could this NOT be a focal point? Marco Rubio could have helped a great deal. Not saying enough to swing it back the other way…but it would have certainly helped. Dude is squared away. Polished.
Perhaps to young right now. But the guy is impressive.

As for fixing problems, that’s not just a bi-coastal road block. Everyone is too involved in their pissing contests and proving themselves correct to work together towards the greater good.

“Rasmussen Reports is the best online polling website on the planet. I wouldn’t trust a blogger on NYTimes.com [Nate Silver] to be neutral any more than I would trust a blogger on FoxNews.com to be neutral.”

For the record, in picking the winners of the nine swing states:
Rasmussen: 3 correct (NH,NC,NV), 4 wrong (VA, IA,CO,FL), 2 Rasmussen called dead even (OH,WI) – in another words, about the same level of accuracy, maybe slightly worse, than someone who picked the winners out of a hat
Nate Silver: 9 out of 9 correct

The problem w/ the bi-coasts is that they want to be clever instead of fixing America…and I’m the one that has to live with the blow-back. It makes me bitter every time. Geez, I’m already going into Bill the Cat mode.

However, Chuck Todd is a media hack of epic proportions. Only Mark Halperin and David Gregory are bigger corporate ass-kissing tools.

One can only hope. The GOP tears taste so sweet.

BTW, Nate Silver and Chuck Todd Rock. And not because of who won; this is a non-partisan assessment.

The enemy is not comprised of the two coasts. It’s people who look like me, people whose last names have a tendency to end in the letter ‘z.’ We haven’t invaded the middle very much… yet.