Political Winners and Losers

To me the biggest loser of the election is the divisive politics which were brought to America by Karl Rove through Bush. Obama’s win shows that a 50 state ground game is successful long term strategy that doesn’t get derailed by appealing to only a certain base of voters. It was a strong statement by voters that they want to be united in hope, and not picked apart into constituencies.

The Republican party needs to seriously regroup and figure out how they are going to appeal to a bigger percentage of today’s voters. I feel sorry for McCain because he followed a campaign path similar to what was successful for Bush and in doing so really dampened his appeal to independents. I don’t blame him for believing it would work because it had worked so well for Bush. But there were just too many factors leading voters to demand change.