Norm Coleman is likely to be recounted out of office. Who should we thank or blame?
Why waste any time blaming Democrats? They are doing what Democrats do and what we Republicans have known for two decades that they do.
Republicans don’t just have to win, they have to win any election by a sufficiently wide margin that they avoid recounts. Anything that damps down a margin hands the seat to Democrats.
It has been reported that 4.1 million social conservatives who had voted in 2004 didn’t vote in 2008. If the missing votes were allocated among the states equally, that works out to 80,000 votes per state.
Of course, while states like Minnesota aren’t likely to have 80,000 social conservatives who didn’t go to the polls, it isn’t unreasonable to suppose that they had 8,000 who didn’t go. If Norm Coleman had received 6,000 of those 8,000 votes, the Democrats couldn’t use their usual tricks.
James Dobson is an expensive luxury to the Republican Party, and that is all that he is. He can’t claim to be anything more.
For three election cycles, he and his followers have been boycotting anyone of note who is not a social conservative. What he can’t seem to understand is that those voters don’t vote for anyone down ticket.
It has cost the Republican Party dearly and we aren’t through paying the price.
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