I think there's a decisive number of conservative men who are more sexist than racist. Given McCain's age and health, they were terrified that Palin might become President, so they voted for Obama.

I think it would also help explain why Missouri was never close this time but was very close in 2008.

I think there are two unreported stories.

1. The larger than expected turnout of black voters. This was not just about reelecting a black president as republicans try to portray it. I heard real anger amongst black voters about trying to suppress voting rights. There was also offense that they were trying to do a wedge by pretending they were only after people here illegally and voting. Black voters saw it for what it was and the fact that the Supreme Court is trying to overturn parts of the Voting Rights Act proves them right. Little is being reported on the backlash from black voters.

2. Young voters did turn out. They want a different America. I wish there were more and I am still surprised how some young people can vote for Romney. Many young voters are more in touch with the world due to technology. They are not buying the line that we have the best health care system in the world or that 47% of the country should be told to go to hell. This is a group that often gets labeled in negative ways. They made me proud on election day.

out pretty big in Maine.

MSNBC has talked about it.

I hope you are right.

In Arizona independents are something like 40% of the electorate - and EVERY one I've met is a Ron Paul supporter or a former Republican who now hates Bush. They tend to be in the Constitution Party area of the Conservative spectrum.

Moderate is the term that the mainstream media is looking for and they don't use it.

Do but nobody really spoke with black voters. We saw the blatant racism and disrespect. We heard the desperate. Call from the evangelicals about issues on one hand and disrespect of the president on the other. Since we are not represented in the msm nobody heard us until election day. We did expect a large turnout of black voters!

Angry that they were trying to turn back the clock.

Black voters came out and were heard loud and clear on election day.

As the post-election autopsy gathers pace, this reality will become more and more stark.

The ranks of "independent voters" have been swelled mostly by Repukes fleeing their increasingly insane and irrelevant party.

for the likes of Romney. He was way too fringe, even if it was only on every other day. They are just republican fence sitters. A true Indie would have looked at the issues at hand and never gone red this time, especially with everything at stake.

We see this is Maine where the plurality are registered Indies. Some are R leaning, others D leaning, many are true split ticketers whose loyalties split every election with split ticket voting and sometimes they sway to the D or R depending on the particular election year. In this election in Maine we won back the moderate Indies who voted R in 2010 out of frustration with the economy. They came back to us because they rejected the TeaBaggery that got in two years ago.

THe O team did not work at all to drive up margins in the clearly blue states. They spent nearly all their money, time, and policy initiatives on securing margins of victory in the battlegrounds. Had they worked driving up margins in blue states, this would have looked vastly more like 2008. Romney on the other hand drove up margins in the red states, which actually did not help him at all.

We have been solidly blue since 1993 presidentially. Still, OFA worked VERY HARD up here to nail us down. I know because I worked with them. Not AS MUCH resource as the battleground states, but definitely some resource and a lot of hard work.

in CA, OR, WA, NY. Remember the huge rallies in 2008? Some of the biggest were in deep blue states that were hardly contested this time. I live in FL and what I was impressed about was the precision of this campaign. They spent nearly nothing in time and resources organizing me. There was no need, I always vote, never miss an election, and I contribute dem, but they seemed to know it and did not spend resources in my direction. The rallies in town were held not in big venues, but in the precincts where they knew they needed the voters to turn out and where turnout was often less dependable. There was no wasted motion. They went to the target audience directly and got them to the polls.

They worked to assure a win, not to run up the score in popular vote where it was not needed.

"Where were the huge rallies?", said the pundits. Huge rallies were never part of the plan, for the most part they did not rent the venues for them, plan them or set them up, because they were not needed to win.

They were false independents to put it straight Obama won the true independents in swing states.

She says there ARE Independents who are not closet Republicans and they are a factor in elections, yet MA is a very blue state...

by a large margin….I still want to get rid of electoral college.