Day: November 8, 2012

Ignoring the ground game in favor of burning $390 million on TV ads may not have exhausted the resources of wingnut fat cats, but it has ruined the reputation of alleged genius, Karl Rove.

"The billionaire donors I hear are livid," one Republican operative told The Huffington Post. "There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do … I don't know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got nothing."

Before heading back to the White House on Wednesday, President Obama made a stop at campaign headquarters in Chicago to address his campaign staff after Tuesday night's big victory. The president teared up as he expressed his gratitude for their support and dedication to the reelection effort. This is a powerful video. Made me tear up.

At around 6:30 p.m., as I was driving down to the Queen in Wilmington to meet my fellow DL and Democratic compatriots to watch the results and hopefully celebrate our victory, I was listening to MSNBC on XM, and one of their reporters embedded with the Romney campaign said that Mr. Romney had only prepared one speech for the night, a victory speech, while President Obama had prepared both a victory and a concession speech. Now, when I heard that, I thought it was pure puffery on the part of the Romney campaign, yet another attempt to project strength and momentum in line with what they had done the entire campaign. Of course Mitt Romney, a prudent businessman, would prepare for any eventuality, and that meant that he and his family and his running mate and his running mate's family, and of course his campaign... all of them... would be prepared for any eventuality. And that means preparing two speeches and being emotionally prepared for a result one way or the other. But, as we learn from this stunning CBSNews article, that was not the case. They really believed their own bullshit.

.... or, an alternative title would be, Romney concedes Florda. "Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured a victory in Florida because the lion's share of the outstanding ballots come from Democratic-heavy counties," the Miami Herald reports.

"Conservative leaders are steaming that Republicans failed to make President Obama a one-term president and are criticizing Mitt Romney for not pursuing a conservative enough agenda in the presidential race." ...also, Romney didn't talk about outlawing abortion enough, or scoff at climate change with enough Romanesque brio.

1) Allow all the Bush tax cuts to expire. 2) Reinstate the middle class tax cuts separately as the "Obama tax cuts" 3) If blocked by GOP house, vote them out in 2014. 4) If not blocked by GOP house members, vote them out in 2014 anyway.