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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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  • roomtemp wrote...
    All these arguments about the supposed differences between dems and gop are laughable.
    November 16, 2012 8:41 pm
    The results of their policies are effectively identical. They have both been purchased. Presidents come and go, the thing that never changes are the financial elite behind the scenes that create the policy.

    You voted for Obama? Guess what... You voted for corporate bailouts, concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, loss of liberty, and endless war. But hey, you won! Those other guys with the red hats voting for the same thing lost. Yea team!

    http://www.salon.com/2009/04/04/summers/

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  • Golfer66 wrote...
    ignorance...
    November 16, 2012 9:54 pm
    The two major political philosophies could not be farther apart. I think what you mean, and what other's obviously miss, is that party politics get in the way and cloud the obvious differences. Perhaps we can all agree that party politics (self-serving agendas and the natural growth of power and government that historically and naturally result from it) is the obstruction between the individual and liberty. BTW, it annoys me that Obama now says he has a mandate....what a crock...congress had landslide victories at all levels of government in 2010, which is more reflective of the people's mandate. Obama won because of distortions, a good ground-game, the MSM, emotions, cult of personality, and race....and NOT on his record or agenda. We will rue the day, folks...
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Reliving the glory days huh?
    November 17, 2012 7:17 am
    In 2010 Republicans won their majority after redrawing House district lines to their advantage. Claiming a mandate is lunacy (but then I expect no less from you). Republicans lost seats overall and lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. That's no mandate, that's legitimate rape.
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  • fedral way, rick wrote...
    Reliving the glory days huh?
    November 17, 2012 12:28 pm
    hahahaha very good spot on and clever and funny.good for you, Hey michael where was your voice when your party tried to suppress the vote in florida and ohio? where was your adult voice to say hey that's not right or american? you mega HYPOCRITE.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @Golfer66
    November 17, 2012 10:57 am
    Still playing the Coke/Pepsi game eh?
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  • fedral way, rick wrote...
    ignorance
    November 18, 2012 12:01 pm
    What a croc on you, you talk trash on the president what do you offer same old gloom and doom ,our state of washington voted 56% for the president ,why don't you give him a chance if not come up with something positive to say. You just ad same old tired republican=teabagger crap.Always negative.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @roomtemp
    November 17, 2012 10:56 am
    Good point, (which is why I voted for Jill Stein). Protest votes are just that. As long as the Democrats and Republicans conspire together to keep out presidential candidates of third parties, I will not vote for their Presidential candidates.
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  • fedral way, rick wrote...
    roomtemp
    November 18, 2012 2:16 pm
    We really need a thrid party 2 is not enough republican-teabaggers really is 2 the moderates and the right wing nutts.Cigarfan good luck to you and yours.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    The Doom and Gloom coming from the Left wing Parrots here
    November 20, 2012 10:07 am
    you would think their Dear Leader lost re immaculation. Does anything ever make you Parrots happy?
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @Lord Ha ha!
    November 20, 2012 5:54 pm
    "Does anything ever make you Parrots happy?" Washington state does!
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