Any Other Dems Slightly Scared Now?

[LastVoter]

...the thing I'm most afraid of, is that Romney tricked voters into thinking he's a viable "Moderate" alternative.

That isn't what he did, and I was already afraid Obama would lose for weeks now, but I agree there is reason to be afraid.  Romney is going to be the next president, and he'll be up there crowing about Obama's achievements, claiming them as his own (for example next year's strong recovery).  It'll be more repulsive than even the Bush years - a man winning purely on racism.

There is a positive though - we are due for a deep recession in the 1-3 period, maybe the white working class can finally see the painfully obvious downsides of capitalism, no matter who is in office.

[LastVoter]

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Sig material.

Only majority and/or people with power can be racist. (South Africa and a couple other countries in it's vicinity are examples of minority racists).

[LastVoter]

As Oakie has often said... the natural state for liberals is 'loserism' ... we see adversities and flee thinking "oh, they've won again... gah" and walk away, well before the battle has actually been lost.

But isn't this kind of attitude at least partly a result of our past experiences? I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that left-wing candidates win less often than right-wing ones in most countries in the world. And in order to win, they have to move to the centre more sharply than right-wing candidates. A major gaffe/scandal, and they're out, while right-wingers are forgiven much more easily. When left-wing prospects seem good in polling numbers, there's always some "shy conservative effect" or some lat minute swing (see Demnark 2011, France 2012, Québec 2012). I know I'm exaggerating but, overall, I have the feeling that, everything else being equal, voters instinctively tend to favor the right.

I think this has only happened in last three or four decades, that's why right wingers have run off into loony land.

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Bullsh**t - racism is racism. You don't believe that hispanics and blacks can be racist to each other?

And yes, the evidence is pretty solidly in favour of whites being the least racist. They are the most likely race to vote for someone not of their race when given a choice between a white person and someone who isn't white.

As expected, you have totally missed the point. It doesn't matter what the peasant thinks of the lord.

[LastVoter]

Yes, there is possibility of Mitt Romney winning by changing his campaign on veiled racism, considering he can win 4 swing states +CO through other means.