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[Eagle_eye]

I got Jill Stein, but only because they didn't have sufficiently left wing options.

[Bohandas]

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They don't have a listing for Vermin Supreme...

[Mego]

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They don't have a listing for Vermin Supreme...

I'm personally in support of Stephen Colbert for president. I'm only partially joking. He is incredibly knowledgeable about politics, which allows him to make fun of politics so much. It'd be an interesting ride, at least.

[mainiac]

Well this is sort of related to the OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XFNE6lbD_b4

[Frumple]

Romneynomics or Romnomics - not even in wikipedia

...all sound crap, and none had a wiki page.

Romnomics sounds alright, honestly, though it'd sound better with an extra nom. Romnomnomics. Reminds me of the Hamburgler for some ungodly reason, though.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Romonomnomics, for when eating the poor is no longer a metaphor.

[Nilik]

I got Jill Stein, but only because they didn't have sufficiently left wing options.

Me too, with Obama a close second. Hi5.

[Bohandas]

Anyway, The far-right continues to blame Romney for their loss. They are saying alot of things the democrats were saying. My favorite is someone who quoted Groucho. "These, are my principles! And if you don't like'em, well I have other ones..." Alot of people saying the problem was too much compromise. Others are following the path of moderacy. Either way things are getting splintered.
 
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Predictably I side with Romney the least and Obama second from least.

[Darvi]

I get 94% for Jailbird. Interestingly enough, Obama's second-to-last with 71%. and 42% of 'murrica disagrees with me.



I went ahead and actually did the economy part because I don't really have much of a clue about it. Now I have 95% and Mittens went down from 20 to 12% Apparently people with no clue about the economy agree the most with him because that's what I got on my first run.

[Owlbread]

I did it for the second time in a few months and I've gotten 84% Gary Johnson, 75% Jill Stein, 44% Rocky Anderson, 34% Obama, 12% Virgil Goode and 9% Romney. I agree with 55% of American voters.

Party-wise I side with the greens at 69%, 60% libertarian, 55% democrat and 11% republican.

I am disappointed because last time I did this I had a decent percentage for the socialist party.

[kaijyuu]

Super duper liberal here.

96% Jailbird
83% Previous Mayor of Salt Lake City
81% Mr. Johnson
74% Bronco Bama
9% for Dante's nemesis, Virgil
1% for Mittens


Honestly I'd probably side closer toward the conservative side (slightly) if the questionnaire had an option for my opinion on abortion (absolute neutrality). I had to do the write in option and set the importance of that question to minimum.

[RedKing]

For the last week since the election, the overarching message to the Republican Party has been: "ADAPT OR DIE". There have been numerous articles and essays showing how demographic trends are going to make it more and more difficult for the party of old, white, Christian men to be relevant in 21st-century America. Already, you're seeing a partial understanding of this as the Establishment faction of the party pivots on immigration reform. But you're also seeing a retrenchment among the most hardcore social conservatives, invoking the tried-and-true(-and-failed) refrain of "We lost because we weren't conservative enough!"

So...grab some popcorn and stay tuned in for the next couple of years because you're in for some fireworks as the GOP gears up for a civil war in its ranks between the small but still extant Moderate Wing, the Establishment Wing and the God Wing.

If the Moderates win, the GOP could be back as a relevant challenger and peel off support among conservative and pragmatic Dems, even as the centerpoint of the mainstream skews left.

If the Establishment wins, the GOP will still be a rump party for a while but I think will try to become broadly pro-Hispanic and rely on the strong correlation between Hispanics and Catholicism to bolster support for some social conservative issues like abortion and gay marriage. They'll lose a lot of the nativists, old-school racists and rabid Protestant Bible-beaters, but then there's not much of a place for those folks to go--might jump to a further-right party like the Constitution Party.

If the God wing wins....the GOP could be headed to the political dustbin within a couple of decades, to join the Whigs, Prohibitionists and Free Soilers.

My personal hope is either for the 1st or 3rd outcome. The former because a balanced, rational party of fiscal conservatism and socially laissez-faire would be a welcome thing in the US political system and a good counterbalance to the inevitable excesses of a long period of Democratic dominance. The latter because nature abhors a vacuum -- if the GOP closed up shop (or withered to the point of irrelevance), the Dems would eventually splinter (hopefully into more than a two-party paradigm).

[misko27]

For the last week since the election, the overarching message to the Republican Party has been: "ADAPT OR DIE". There have been numerous articles and essays showing how demographic trends are going to make it more and more difficult for the party of old, white, Christian men to be relevant in 21st-century America. Already, you're seeing a partial understanding of this as the Establishment faction of the party pivots on immigration reform. But you're also seeing a retrenchment among the most hardcore social conservatives, invoking the tried-and-true(-and-failed) refrain of "We lost because we weren't conservative enough!"

To be more specific, they said that Mitt Romney sucks, and if they had nominated, say, Santorum, they would have won, which of course is absolutely insane, but there's no reality-check saying otherwise. They've proved they don't have to care about polls, so it's almost as if all they know from this is that Obama won.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've said it once and I'll say it again: Here's hoping for Santorum 2016. It will be a political bloodbath. Come on you crazy theocrats, I know you have it in you to screw yourselves over!

[Owlbread]

I've said it once and I'll say it again: Here's hoping for Santorum 2016. It will be a political bloodbath. Come on you crazy theocrats, I know you have it in you to screw yourselves over!

It would be good to see the nail go in that coffin. People like Santorum are actually very useful because sometimes you need a crazy theocrat or real right-winger just to provide an independent view. Similarly, we need extreme lefties too like the communists.