2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDick Morris - My predictions were wrong - I Didn't see the NEW USA
I guess he forgot that in America, Angry old White dudes aren't the only members of the electorate.
"Fox News contributor Dick Morris said on Wednesday that his prediction that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney would beat President Barack Obama was wrong because his election models were not reflective of the new America.
I think that the reason the prediction I made was wrong is that I was criticizing the polling because I said it reflected the same turnout model as there was in 2008. And I said that I thought that was a one-off affair and that it would not continue and it would not be the permanent turnout model for the United States, Morris said on Fox News.
"He added: What this is saying is this is the new America. This isnt your fathers America. Morris, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, had predicted a Romney landslide.
Morris said that unless the GOP-ers can appeal to some of the key Democratic constituencies, they wont be able to win again.
The percentage of single women, minorities and voters under 30 is so large at this point that unless the Republican Party fundamentally changes its appeal to those voters, it can never win an election, Morris said.
He continued: If this candidate in this economy against this opponent cant win an election with this electorate nobody ever can. And what the Republican Party needs to do is to stop running in the face of those demographics, and start appealing to them and start revising some of its priorities and its positions in order to reach that vote because that vote is here to stay.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83490.html#ixzz2BY26hSW0
BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)...and CRY in it!
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)How can the man even show his face?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)What an idiot. How is it that he's even allowed to bloviate in public? Dumbass has never been right about anything.
smorkingapple
(827 posts)The clue bird...
C_U_L8R
(45,019 posts)They are so twisted up in their own bullshit
that they cannot even think straight.
Everyone knows their game..
and they don't like it.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)We in the reality based community have been saying it all along. I suspect he knew this. There is something wrong with him upstairs. He's missing it. I can't put my finger on where.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Additional lies.
Additional divisive tactics.
I know its just me, but I wish Morris would suddenly start speaking like William Shatner.
In fact, I would watch Fox news a LOT if they all started speaking like Shatner.
There's an app for that.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)How much more water can you squeeze out of a stone?
djean111
(14,255 posts)Morris is just now realizing the GOP can't just marginalize, suppress, and obstruct the non-white voters.
The message about race and immigration will be very different next time, maybe the existing GOP base will be thrown under the bus.
When you have a candidate who says his plan is to make life so difficult for immigrants that they self-deport - you have to understand the consequences of that. And Romney clearly didn't count on not being able to walk back his lies and spews - perhaps he will try and buy YouTube next.
Romney looks to me like a guy who is used to having complete control, without doing any heavy lifting himself.
I think the GOP figured they had successfully suppressed voters in PA and OH and FL enough to win, and they seemed shocked.
I kept waiting for Rove to crack and say hey I know there are 50 bags of GOP ballots in a storeroom somewhere in Ohio - drag those out and count them. Now!
democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)You can't do that and be a Republican.
bmbmd
(3,088 posts)keep on living the charade-even when everyone see through it-because it is your livelihood.
Daniel537
(1,560 posts)Z_California
(650 posts)...but correct analysis doesn't pay the bills if you're a Fox News contributor.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)It'll only burn for a little while.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Maybe years. Their demos have doomed them. Dick, take a look at the Census sometime. It's eye opening.
Paladin
(28,271 posts)Demsrule86
(68,643 posts)When he said Romney would win...I was like Oh thank God ...now I now Pres. Obama will win.
JiminyJominy
(340 posts)Says, "it was a squeaker".
NO you idiot...it wasn't.
It was a freakin landslide.
sammytko
(2,480 posts)Its what is wrong with him and the likes of the rombots. They are blind.
Firebirds01
(576 posts)So.......they need to stop being the Republican Party?
carjackistan
(4 posts)I am shocked, SHOCKED that Dick Morris was out of touch with the youth and minorities of this country.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Thank you all who make up the grand coalition!
CoffinEd
(264 posts)before all that hooker toe sucking started messing with his mind. I mentioned Dick's prediction about a Romney landslide to a friend the first time he said it and we've been laughing ever since. Wanna win some easy money, always bet against Dick.
LynnTheDem
(21,368 posts)Democrats.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)he is now a mere footnote to history.