Wislady is still trying to convince herself
that Romney didn't really lose.
Every time they count more votes,
Obama takes a bigger lead.
He won the general,
he won the electoral.
He won the damned election!

History also says that a house member hardly ever goes from the house to the presidency. I believe James Garfield was the last to do that, and he was shot dead a few months later, so it's a bad omen even if it is done!
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2016 really comes down to who the GOP machine selects and pushes off to the gullible GOP primary voter. The party bosses and big $$$ backers select the nominee, then just clear the way, and set up the public to vote him in. Hence how Romney won. The GOP made sure that serious contenders like Rubio, Huckabee, and Cristie did NOT run, and then set up a field of clowns for Romney to 'compete' against. They made Faux news, and company, become thee official headquarters for Romney. His nomination was PLANNED well in advance by the GOP establishment. Any 'threat' made to Romney, and the big establishment $$ came in and crushed them in ads and the press-faux news. All the while sealing a SURE Obama win in the process! 2016 really comes down to who the establishment selects. If they have the same morons they had in 2012 vetting and hand picking their man, then no doubt you will get another clown who has zero shot of winning.

You are forgetting about
President Obama's mandate.
;-)

juliew

Maybe they will get the military ballots counted also.

8 million less people voted for Obama this time around....turnout did not match the last election.

Nothing has changed, the balance of power remains the same.Democrats maintained the Senate majority, and Republicans maintained the majority in the House of Representatives.

Republican also now have 30 governors.

You can play with the numbers all you want, doesn't change the facts.

Knowledge in a Nutshell is great for those with a ten second attention span. Not much knowledge is obtained with that sort of news/info, but just enough to really screw with your limited brain power.

Wislady you might be interested to know that 31 states have yet to finalize their election results and therefore the results are likely to change. California, Washington state and Oregon which voted heavily for the President have mail in ballots that are just now being counted. Today Barack Obama has 62,611,250 and in 2004 Geroge W Bush received 62,211,250 I believe with even your math skills you would agree George W Bush received fewer votes. As for a mandate it should be noted more people voted for democratic candidates for the house and senate then they did for republicans but because of redistricting they did not pick up more seats. Those are verifiable facts!

You must be joking.
What part of "win" do you not understand?

analertcitizen

Look around, Obama isn't either.

Funny thing is, outside of Wisconsin, which Romney/Ryan lost, neither are very highly regarded. The entire GOP better start changing their tune or guarantee future losses. The Far-Right has lost their momentum and won't get it back. Their ideology isn't in sync with the changing country and the country isn't going to go back 40 years.

Have fun looking for the next Mitt Romney.

RAF

Typical.

It sure is going to be fun watching the liberals spin for the next 4 years, as they try to figure out who the 2016 candidates will be. Sad, though, that they never bothered to do any vetting on the current occupant of the WH.

Linking to krugman, how wonderful.

I enjoy reading the postings from the intolerant left.

wisconsinheat
I am not disputing that he has another term, another 4 years to try to "get it right".

Walker won also, and republicans won back the majority, and Ryan is Chairman of the Budget Committee. Wisconsin came out ahead of many states in this election, plus the fact that we now have 30 republican governors is also a positive.

I would trust Paul Ryans math over Obama's math anyday.

Retiredmilitary
"those huge ears" you describe on Ryan....have you not noticed the wing flaps on Obama's head?

Do you mind if I call you Sunshine?

The fact is Obama won...Romney lost.

What part of that do you not understand wislady?

janesvillean....

The country is almost evenly divided, Obama has NO mandate.

2004 George W. Bush Beats Barack Obama’s 2012 Numbers – “Mandate”?

"In an near record setting low turnout rate (which may in fact be a record setting low turnout rate) and with an estimated 18 million more eligible voters, Barack Obama garnered less actual votes than George W. Bush did in 2004 and secured a smaller percentage of the votes than “W” did.

In short, in their re-election bid campaigns, Barack Obama just lost to George W. Bush. Chew on that for a while."

In 2008, 131.3 million people voted in the presidential race: “Obama garnered 69.5 million votes (52.9%) to 59.9 million (45.7%) for McCain”

What are the election numbers this year? Not good.

Obama – 59,584, 123 for 50.3%
Romney – 56,961,230 for 48.1%
total votes cast in presidential race = 116,545,353

As hated as he was in his re-election bid, with an estimated 18 million more eligible voters, George Bush beat Obama in both the popular vote and the percentage of eligible voters.

How’s that for a “mandate”?

Notice this as well…

Obama had 50.3% Bush had 50.7%
Romney had 48.1% Kerry had 48.3%

"All of that is supposed to equal a mandate to continue the policies that the American people OBVIOUSLY don’t approve of.

Only in America folks."

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-liberal...

Retiredmilitary, We wonder about Obama and mathematics, he gave Myanmar a 170 million dollars America cannot afford to give away, maybe it's very fuzzy Obama math.

The obstructionists are already talking 2016....good grief.

Ryan is exactly what the GOP must run far away from if they want to win anything in the near future. His epic failure on Nov 6. shows that. The party needs to diversify; there just aren't enough middle aged white men around anymore to guarantee an election win.

the RYAN GAZETTE, marches on to 2016. cant wait for another update on the presidential bid.

You guys are priceless.
Does Governor Walker have a mandate?

garyprimer, socialism is not a positive "mandate".

Considering he lost Wisconsin, Rock County and Janesville I think he better worry about his district first.

wislady, George W. Bush claimed a "mandate" in 2004 with a smaller proportion of the popular vote than Obama's in 2012. So what the what?

A caller just asked me if John F. Kennedy hadn't run for vice president with 1956 Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. I said I'd check it out. Two Internet sources say Stevenson threw open the question of his running mate at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, and that Kennedy finished a close second in the balloting for the VP nomination to Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
Greg Peck

Obama doesn't have a mandate, sorry, garyprimer.

Please lets just put Ryan to rest for now.

Wislady is right!
We all need to rally behind President Obama
and help him fulfill his mandate!
;-)

At least at the rate Obama is burning through borrowed money, we won't have to worry about robo-calls in 2016. No business or interest group will be able to afford them by then.

In short, I HOPE NOT!!!!!!!!

How about we focus on the potus we have now, and hold him accountable. No one is worried about 2016, we have 2013 to worry about.

FDR also didn't run for President until 12 years after his failed VP campaign, and in the interim had won two campaigns for Governor of New York.