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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2012 / The Tent Just Keeps Getting Bigger

The Tent Just Keeps Getting Bigger

by $8 blue check mistermix|  November 15, 20117:50 am| 27 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012

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From Univision (via):

“I don’t think it requires us to go negative in the sense of us running a bunch of ads that are false, or character assassinations,” Obama told Univision News. “It will be based on facts … We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim. We won’t even comment on them, we’ll just run those in a loop on Univision and Telemundo, and people can make up their own minds.”

This reminds me of a North Vietnamese general who said “LBJ will be my supply sergeant” because his troops would use what US left behind. In that spirit, Herman Cain will be Obama’s media director.

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  1. 1.

    Shlemizel

    November 15, 2011 at 7:54 am

    Given the success the Republicans have had at keeping the economy in the dumpster this may be our best hope.

  2. 2.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    November 15, 2011 at 7:59 am

    Obi Wan Obama, you’re our only hope. May the farce be with them!

    I have enjoyed the Repubtilian Clown Car primary season at RedState. If you really enjoy watching wingers whine, check out anything where the candidates are mentioned…lol! Two people there even ripped Ann Coulter, one saying that she only exists to suck money from the right, and nobody BLAMMED! them. Not a word.

    They’re too busy ripping on each other about GinGrinch, Black Walnut, Tutti Frutti, Rocky Road and Vanilla to notice the small stuff.

    Good times. :)

  3. 3.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 15, 2011 at 8:01 am

    The important thing about the quote is that it was a North Vietnamese General.

  4. 4.

    gnomedad

    November 15, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Haha, the prez Went There! Awesome!

  5. 5.

    debit

    November 15, 2011 at 8:23 am

    How dare he threaten to use their own words against them? /wingnut

  6. 6.

    Cacti

    November 15, 2011 at 8:28 am

    Just put on a series of Romney vs. Romney debates.

  7. 7.

    jrg

    November 15, 2011 at 8:30 am

    @debit: Airing the GOP debates proves librul mediuh bias!

  8. 8.

    mistermix

    November 15, 2011 at 8:30 am

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yes, I added that. Thanks.

  9. 9.

    superdestroyer

    November 15, 2011 at 8:43 am

    Considering that the Democrats get about 80% of the Hispanic vote and more than 85% of the non-Cuban Hispanic vote, why would the Obama Administration even bother to have a media plan for Univision and Telemundo. Aren’t the heavily Democratic Party leaning networks already doing everything they can to make the U.S. a one-party-state just like Mexcio and most of Central and South America?

  10. 10.

    Chyron HR

    November 15, 2011 at 8:51 am

    @superdestroyer:

    Waaaah mommy one-party-state

    Is that something like a “Permanent Repulican Majority”?

  11. 11.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    November 15, 2011 at 8:53 am

    @superdestroyer: You mean all of those people who would otherwise vote Republican if the party of Evil weren’t talking about setting up electric fences? The only reason they lean Democratic at all is because of the threats from Republicans.

  12. 12.

    Paul in KY

    November 15, 2011 at 8:55 am

    @Cacti: That’s alot of ‘debates’ to inflict on the American people.

    Have you no heart?

  13. 13.

    jrg

    November 15, 2011 at 9:02 am

    @superdestroyer: GOP candidates have been suggesting things like killing Mexicans with an electric fence, and it’s the media’s fault that Hispanics are overwhelmingly Democratic?

    Are you high, or just an idiot?

  14. 14.

    Walker

    November 15, 2011 at 9:03 am

    @superdrstroyer:

    Because the remaining 20% are still enough to sway the election.

  15. 15.

    cleek

    November 15, 2011 at 9:15 am

    if it’s “one party state”, it’s gotta be superdestroyer! yay.

  16. 16.

    dmsilev

    November 15, 2011 at 9:20 am

    See, folks, this is what happens when we complain about troll quality. We could have had Reality Check and *VICTORY!*, but now we’re stuck with re-re-re-recycled nonsense about the Liberal Media Conspiracy.

    Happy now?

  17. 17.

    Ben Cisco

    November 15, 2011 at 9:33 am

    @jrg: Now now – they need not be mutually exclusive.
    __
    My joy at all this is somewhat tempered by the fact that the NeoConfederates will blame their impending loss on not being hardore ENOUGH.
    __
    And the media will go right along for the ride.

  18. 18.

    Humanities Grad

    November 15, 2011 at 9:34 am

    @ superdestroyer

    Your estimates for the Hispanic vote are off by quite a bit. According to the Pew Research Center, John McCain received approximately 31% of the Hispanic vote in 2008 (Obama received 67%). See link:

    http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1024/exit-poll-analysis-hispanics

    That was actually a substantial dropoff from George W. Bush’s performance in 2004, when he appears to have received about 40% of the Hispanic vote. That’s not terribly surprising because the one issue on which Bush was clearly to the left of the GOP mainstream was immigration policy. This was also true of McCain in 2008, although to a lesser extent.

    By the 2012 election, Latino voters will comprise roughly one-tenth of the total U.S. voting public. While it’s probably still possible for a GOP candidate to win the presidency with minimal support from minority voters, it is becoming more difficult with every subsequent election. Having aspiring presidential nominees making statements that are openly hostile to members of a rapidly-growing minority community does not seem to be smart politics in the long run.

  19. 19.

    The Moar You Know

    November 15, 2011 at 9:49 am

    “I’ve got all this stuff twirlin’ around in my head.”

    Blaming minorities for the certain coming Republican disaster – and they already know it’s going to be a disaster – is the only way they can save face.

    But yeah, keep fucking that chicken, GOP. “More of the same” is working out really well for you.

  20. 20.

    Cacti

    November 15, 2011 at 9:56 am

    @The Moar You Know:

    Blaming minorities for the certain coming Republican disaster – and they already know it’s going to be a disaster – is the only way they can save face.

    That’s why in the next 10-20 years, you’ll see the GOP try to reinvent its electoral coalition.

    The rising demographic tide and the Southern Strategy have painted them into such a corner that they’ll need over 60% of the white vote in every future election.

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    November 15, 2011 at 10:33 am

    @superdestroyer:

    So, a “one-party state” is bad, but a “permanent Republican majority” is good because arglebargle librul commies.

  22. 22.

    Mad Monk

    November 15, 2011 at 10:39 am

    @Humanities Grad:
    Which is precisely why Karl Rove worked so hard at getting the GOP to tone down the wetbacky rhetoric.

    Didn’t work obviously, but give him points for trying…

  23. 23.

    Judas Escargot

    November 15, 2011 at 11:02 am

    @Cacti:

    That’s why in the next 10-20 years, you’ll see the GOP try to reinvent its electoral coalition.

    If there’s still a GOP in 40 years, I half expect them to be demonizing Old White People as drains on the Treasury, to court the votes of young Hispanics and Asians who haven’t even been born yet.

    The GOP was the Progressive party only a century ago. Weirder things have happened.

  24. 24.

    Martin

    November 15, 2011 at 11:05 am

    @superdestroyer:

    Considering that the Democrats get about 80% of the Hispanic vote and more than 85% of the non-Cuban Hispanic vote, why would the Obama Administration even bother to have a media plan for Univision and Telemundo.

    [sigh]

    The % of the vote isn’t what matters. It’s the % of voters that vote that matters.

    Turnout is everything. Seriously. Just say that over and over in your head.

  25. 25.

    Sentient Puddle

    November 15, 2011 at 11:21 am

    I’d just like to point out that nobody is paying attention to how crazy big Univision’s audience has gotten:

    Between the 1999-2000 TV season and the 2009-10 TV season, Univision’s audience grew by a remarkable 316 percent in the all-important 18-49-year-old demographic. The only other network of any size to come at all close to that mark was ESPN, which grew 297 percent.

    One other thing that makes Univision so attractive to advertisers: The audience is uniquely “sticky.” … In this case, 69 percent of all Univision viewers are unique to that network, as opposed to nine percent for Fox, the highest-rated one of the Big Four in this regard.

    There’s a pretty clear Hispanic outreach strategy going on here.

  26. 26.

    shpx.ohfu

    November 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    Along the lines of TV being an indicator, the Bellagio offers not one, not two, not three but six channels of Chinese language programming. Guess we know who has cash to burn in Vegas.

  27. 27.

    Ian

    November 15, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    As I have said in an earlier thread,

    The gop debates are so numerous because it is a deliberate strategy to kill Dem volunteers who engage in drinking games.

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