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 Michael Medved

Good News for GOP: The Party of Grownups

November 14, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

Buried within dismal election night tallies, conservatives can find some encouraging numbers. Sixty percent of all American voters were married, and married people chose Romney overwhelmingly, 56 to 42 percent.

Meanwhile, voters in households making more than $50,000 a year - a full 59 percent of the electorate - also went Republican by a big margin of 8 percent. And a full 78 percent of voters identify themselves as Christian-Protestant or Catholic - preferring Mitt Romney by more than 10 percent.

So how did Obama win? By piling up big majorities of the single, the poor, and the twelve percent who say they have no religion - all characteristics primarily of the young. But most people don't want to stay single, poor and irreligious as they get older, so the GOP remains the party of grownups and the American dream - a dream that's still overwhelmingly popular.

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  • maplefish wrote...
    True That!
    November 14, 2012 11:48 am
    The Majority of Liberals/ Democrats are either taken care of by the Unions or Government entitlements. The majority of the Left is either too stupid or too lazy or too immature to think for or take care of themselves.
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  • fedral way, rick wrote...
    True That
    November 14, 2012 5:59 pm
    what a croc 62 mllion people voted for our president in your words or stupid and lazy hahahahahaha thats why your arty is in trouble you think so little of your fellow americans and neighbors.You talk soooo ugly so low down.Your party is truly the party of hate,ugliness,gloom and doom.The state of washington went blue with a big majority of white people voting democrat.Your party to stupid and dumb to reach out to others and want to under stand them no you just want to hate and talk ugly.Sad but thats your choice.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    Wow... You went a long, long ways there Medved.
    November 14, 2012 11:49 am
    You found a way to justify your apparently unmitigated hatred for Obama by coming up with 'the only way he won'. Another artificial reality way of looking at the data to justify your pre-determined position on Obama and democrats. The thing is - anyone can dig deep in any set of data to come up with -something- to make themselves happy. it doesn't make the conclusions correct that are made on the deep dive to find self-justification in the data - it just makes them, well, desperate.
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  • halfshaft wrote...
    Hmmm.......
    November 14, 2012 1:07 pm
    I voted for Obama. Twice. I make over $100,000 per year. (Not rich, but certainly not poor) I believe in God. I was married for over 16 years to the same woman, who I am still friends with. But alas, we did divorce, so I guess Michael has me on that one. Anyway, Michael, good to see your back. I was getting a bit worried. If it makes you feel better, I just saw that there are at least two petitions out there for Washington to secede from the Union!
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  • halfshaft wrote...
    Oh, I forgot...
    November 14, 2012 1:30 pm
    ...and I am 50 years old. While I wish I could say otherwise, I believe that makes me a "grownup". And speaking of being grownup Michael; part of being a grownup is showing grace even if the results of the contest were not what you wanted.
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  • fedral way, rick wrote...
    Oh,I forgot
    November 14, 2012 6:01 pm
    very well said ,spot on good luck to you and yours .
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    somehow, halfshell, I DO believe you voted for Obama twice.
    November 14, 2012 11:08 pm
    But TWO petitions for secession?

    Let's see. One from east of the Cascades - but only is King County can stay in the Union. ... and one from conservatives nation-wide who just want the Soviet of Washington gone.

    Yet to be filed. The petition from Seattle liberals who find even Obama too 'right wing' for theit tastes.

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  • logical open mind wrote...
    knuckle halfshaft head- Michael DID NOT STATE THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE DEMOGRAPHICS PROVIDED VOTED FOR rOMNEY.
    November 15, 2012 2:34 pm
    Can't you bloody read?
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  • logical open mind wrote...
    knuckle halfshaft head- Michael DID NOT STATE THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE DEMOGRAPHICS PROVIDED VOTED FOR rOMNEY.
    November 15, 2012 2:35 pm
    Can't you bloody read?
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    Yup. The whiney minority playing thier spoiled child game again....
    November 18, 2012 9:02 am
    "I just saw that there are at least two petitions out there for Washington to secede from the Union!" - yup. A whiney minority in this state wanting to decide for the majority that we seceed from the Union. They didn't get thier way and now, in typical fashion, they decide that they'll do the spoiled child act... It's unbelievably pathetic that they are so wrapped up in believing thier own extremism that they cannot seem to be able to handle the real world around them any longer. While the extremist liberals did go pretty substantially over the top with thier antics during the Bush era, at least they didn't stoop to demanding to seceed from the Union.... They got a leg up on these right wing extremists on that one.
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  • pandoraspocks wrote...
    Time to learn something new
    November 14, 2012 1:44 pm
    It's easy when facing great disappointment to search for solace by spinning data to reflect your hopes and dreams. Now is not the time to do that! (He lost, Mike, he lost!) Better to regroup and figure out the REAL reason why he lost. If the GOP wants to be relevant in the next election they have to appeal to all demographics, or as many as possible. There's a HUGE difference in households over $50,000 and those over $200,000 but you lump them all together... sorry, not a good way to start.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @pandoraspocks...
    November 18, 2012 9:10 am
    You got that right ("If the GOP wants to be relevant in the next election they have to appeal to all demographics, or as many as possible") - and to do that, they have to turn these often hateful speaking, always 'rightwing extremism or else' folks into a meaningful group of people who are willing to accept that there is more than just 'thier way' to fix America's problems. There is nearly NEVER just one way to fix any problem - the more complex a problem, the more potential ways there are to solve it (and the things that need fixing in America aren't simplistic - no matter what the rhetoric and the extremists want you to think, nor are they the providence of just one party). The Republicans need limit the power of extremists so that they can bring others into thier fold. They need to stop demonizing everything that isn't far right wing 'enough'. Unless they do that, they will continue on thier current path of being -the- party of right wing extremist ideology and will fall even farther - likely all the way to third party status. If they don't accept that a vast majority of voters (results of exit polls of voters) who WILL blame the republicans if we fall of the fiscal cliff, who are demanding that both parties work together and stop this ultra partisan crap, who do want the ultra-rich to pay thier share (i.e.: raise thier taxes back to Clinton era levels). If they ignore these folks, they will lose thier majority in the House come 2014. The Republican party needs to admit the truth - that the far right cost them this election.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Michael, this is the same delusion by which you thought the retired Jewish vote was going to produce victior.
    November 14, 2012 1:58 pm
    True. It's not delusional to think people will want to stay unchurched, single and poor as they get older. But the WILL still be blaxk and Hispanic and female. ... And it IS delusional to think that most children today will not be poor and single also then THEY start to vote.

    The American Dream is good. But we've got to make that dream accessible to EVERYONE - without some knee jerk bias.

    The Dream must be accessible TO the poor, the single and to women. ... Otherwise it becomes a revery

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  • NoiseMan wrote...
    Not one of your better pieces Michael
    November 14, 2012 2:42 pm
    This one really is a stretch. I look forward to some of your better stuff after the election wears off a little.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @noiseman
    November 15, 2012 7:30 am
    It really is a stretch. His constant drum beating of hate, disrespect and intolerance towards Obama is pathetic - and this column is just an extention of that drum beating... Trying to come up with a way to show how Obama really didn't wing the overall majority because 'he really only won this tiny segment of the population'... The reality is that the MAJORITY of voters repudiated this type of hate, disrespect and intolerance that these right wing fanatics have been shoving down America's throat. And Medved as well as a specific group of commentors on here can't seem to be able to tolerate thier bubble of false reality being so soundly burst. They are having a severe problem accepting that the MAJORITY of voters turned thier backs on these extremes.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Parrots
    November 14, 2012 3:10 pm
    what part of what Medved said was incorrect?
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  • Drool wrote...
    So how did Obama win?
    November 14, 2012 4:24 pm
    By piling up more electoral votes and the majority of voters. That includes this 6 figure making, unmarried, irreligious over 50 male.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Oh Jesus Michael, don't go away mad.
    November 14, 2012 4:42 pm
    Just go away. Even by your numbers if 100 married people voted Romney got 56 votes to Obama's 42 and it's even less for the rest of your examples. You want to disregard the 42 like they're nothing. Then you go further and dismiss minorities, single people and the young. But you're not bitter. Grown up party indeed. All I heard this week, was Waaah, I wanna secede. Waaah, it's not fair. Waaah, they rigged the election. What a bunch of sore losers.
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  • Golfer66 wrote...
    Oh Jesus Michael, don't go away mad. Just Go away...
    November 15, 2012 8:51 pm
    He isn't going away. And your intolerance and immature rants are as long as you mynorthwest.com screen name. What you post does not even make sense.....nobody is "disregarding" the 42% of anything. Unlike Obama, some of us are concerned about the fairness and liberty of all Americans.
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  • Drool wrote...
    RIght on Cue...
    November 14, 2012 4:50 pm
    All the right wing media mysteriously came out with the exact same story line today. New talking points must have just been sent out and Michael faithfully regurgitates.
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