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Here’s Victor Davis Hanson’s take on what conservatives need to learn from this election: What Went Wrong?
Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution fellow and Policy Review editor (and informal foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign), weighs in on the swirling socialcon controversy: The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left. Here’s the stark reality: It is now harder for the Republican presidential candidate to get to 50.1 percent ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, GOP, Republican, Social Conservatives, Christian Right
This is a thought-provoking essay by Paul Hsieh, a practicing physician in Denver and long-standing Republican voter: How the GOP lost my vote. After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, GOP, Republican, Social Conservatives, Christian Right
Bill Harris, superintendent of schools in Cumberland County, North Carolina, has put up a video statement on that teacher seen bullying students who supported John McCain; the incident will be “thoroughly investigated and appropriate action will be taken.” Good on him for doing the right thing. (And it was a ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Racism, Military, North Carolina
In a grade school in North Carolina, political child abuse that you’re not going to believe. [Video] (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
This is the dawning of the Age of Post-Racialism! We’re healed! Oh, wait. Maybe not: Obama win does not end racism, activists say.
Victor Davis Hanson’s election post-mortem: The Day After. It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did not during the last eight years. By that I mean I hope there are no conservative versions of the ...
I don’t know what to say about this, except ... ugh. [Video]
In an article about right-of-center blog reactions to the Obama victory (you knew this was coming), Hatington Post smear merchant Jason Linkins seems to approve of what I wrote about social conservatives earlier today, titling his link to LGF: “Hey! Let me make total sense for just a second!” Hey, ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Huffington Post
Some interesting comments from David Frum, as the GOP soul-searching and finger-pointing begins: Republicans face fraught choice between two roads to revival. A generation ago, Republicans dominated among college graduates. In 1984 and 1988, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush won states like California, Pennsylvania and Connecticut – states ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Creationism, Fundamentalism
The president elect is giving his victory speech, and here’s one more thread to discuss it.
Barack Hussein Obama is the next President of the United States, and we extend our sincere congratulations. Country first.
Hey, maybe California will go for McCain! Ya think?
Here’s what I wrote on February 5th: If John McCain is the nominee, we’re going to have at least four years of a Democrat in the White House—and with some estimating that Iran will have a bomb within two years, that means we’d have a Democrat facing a nuclear-armed ...
Pajamas TV has a special live election show, free to all...
Another thread for electoral wrangling and persiflage...
We’ve embedded a live electoral map on our page, courtesy of Google; it will remain at the top of every page. Hover your mouse over states to see the current percentages, or use the drop-down menus to check out individual states and see totals by county. You can zoom in ...
We’re in the final hours of polling on the east coast, and here’s another discussion thread... (We’re trying to ignore exit polls this year, because they’re basically worthless.)
Just back from the polling corral, where I cast my vote for the person I most trust to bring America the change we need, the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney. Just kidding! Had you going there, didn’t I?
Via Lone Star Times: Has anyone ever seen an Obama sign defaced like this?
Via Election Journal, video of Black Panthers in paramilitary dress menacing voters with a nightstick in Philadelphia, before the police arrived and put a stop to it. [Video]
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, Black Panthers, Philadelphia
World hopes for a ‘less arrogant America’. Among the more irreverent festivities planned in Paris: a “Goodbye George” party to bid farewell to Bush. “Like many French people, I would like Obama to win because it would really be a sign of change,” said Vanessa Doubine, shopping Tuesday on ...
Obama thanks ‘gracious’ press. “But you guys have been gracious and understanding,” he said, following conservative criticism of the press for its coverage of Obama, as his plane prepared to depart after a huge rally in Virginia for Chicago. “It’s been a good long ride with all of you,” ...
Fox News just reported on an incident at a polling station in Philadelphia, where Black Panthers were blocking the entrance (one of them holding a nightstick) and intimidating voters; police were called. According to a witness they were telling people, “A black man is going to win this election no ...
If you were having trouble with the “reply” and “quote” features, they’re fixed now. So here’s an open thread while we mainline some more Kona coffee...