The Popular Vote
So, the GOP dream team of a rich white guy and a young conservative buck lost the presidential election in the United States on Tuesday. It was a close match by any estimations and the team of Romney/Ryan didn't lose this election alone -- they lost the election thanks to the Republican Party's platform and the choke-hold the libertarian Tea Party holds on the GOP. No matter the excuses the GOP leaders are spreading this Wednesday morning about Romney not being a capable candidate, even though they spent nearly a billion dollars trying to defeat President Obama, the fact of the matter is, a majority of Americans rejected the GOP's platform. Americans as a nation are not hateful people, but the Right would have us believe we hate minorities, Mexicans, gays and poor people; hate them so much that we'd run to the polls and vote for the perfect image of a non-minority gay poor person: a rich white guy. I read an article the other day, or perhaps it was a blog post, t...