And for those who say “Well sure, but the popular vote was close”: the Obama team turned their efforts to getting the electoral votes, because that’s the system we have. If they’d spent all their energy on popular vote, then they probably could have gotten higher numbers there, too.

Oh, and Obama won Asians.

I remember back when I thought the GOP was going to pick up Muslims and Asians. That was back when then GOP wasn’t anti-government, and was proposing sensible things like, oh, a health insurance mandate.

The extremism of the GOP won them short term gains. We saw it time and time again, as they committed further and further to fanaticism and insanity, and were rewarded for it by an increasingly extreme GOP base. But the GOP base isn’t big enough anymore, and it’s eroding, and the insanity is impossible to simply back away from. I think in this case, the GOP focus on being anti-science lunatics is probably the biggest factor in estranging Asians, but the sad thing is there are so many possibilities of extremism that may have caused this.