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thesmithian: There is…reason for optimism rooted in the…differences between the 2010 and 2012 elections. The Class of 2010 was elected by a narrow but intense slice of the electorate—the anti-Obama, recession-fueled rage of the 2010 midterm election landslide. The Class of 2012 was elected in a presidential year, with a broader and more representative segment of the electorate..many of the 2013 freshmen attended an orientation session at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government after the election…“The common attitude among those who attended our conference was that they wanted to be solution-oriented,” said [the director of the Institute of Politics, Trey] Grayson. “They heard loud and clear from voters during the campaign that voters wanted solutions, not rhetoric.” more. and more. and more. Now if we can get the same voters to come out and vote in 2014, so we don’t get  another 112th Congress! 
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thesmithian:

There is…reason for optimism rooted in the…differences between the 2010 and 2012 elections. The Class of 2010 was elected by a narrow but intense slice of the electorate—the anti-Obama, recession-fueled rage of the 2010 midterm election landslide. The Class of 2012 was elected in a presidential year, with a broader and more representative segment of the electorate..many of the 2013 freshmen attended an orientation session at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government after the election…“The common attitude among those who attended our conference was that they wanted to be solution-oriented,” said [the director of the Institute of Politics, Trey] Grayson. “They heard loud and clear from voters during the campaign that voters wanted solutions, not rhetoric.”

more. and more. and more.

Now if we can get the same voters to come out and vote in 2014, so we don’t get  another 112th Congress! 

I don’t know why any woman or gay would ever vote for Romney. All you have to do is look at the Republican platform. I’ve never seen such hate this year in the Republican Party, national or state.
Wayne Butterfass, 70, a retired store owner from Cinncinati who has voted Republican for most of his life. A poll done by The Columbus Dispatch shows Republican Mitt Romney trailing President Obama by 9 points in Ohio. (via kileyrae)

Out of context: it’s all Mitt Romney’s got

See this link for a Romney “rapid response” ad to the REDISTRIBUTION theme he was trying to run with late last week, desperate to distract from his own buffoonery. As you know by the previous post, the audio used is clipped and wildly out of context.

But here’s a funny response from the Obama campaign, mocking Romney by taking him out of context — which is nothing less than he deserves.

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