Good thoughts. A couple reactions: McCain’s biological age wasn’t the problem; its the age of his ideas. Most old and stale.

The role of youth is almost always overstated. The democratic party gets all excited because its easy to win young minds to under-thought ideas. That doesn’t always translate into conviction and votes.

That said, of course we have to win the hearts of the next generation. We need to get hispanics.

One great thing about Obama is that his failed policies will cause some blacks to rethink why they are with the 94% who vote democrat annually. Another is that he is accepting our education reform ideas, which will lead to many more blacks being well educated.

You’re right: the digital networks are a big part of moving forward. Whether twitter will be part of 2012 remains to be seen. Remember, too, that Obama put young organizers on the payroll in every small community.

Ideas still matter, though. Witness the Palin effect.

To be honest, I don’t see the loss here as having anything to do with anything done by either party. In the end, the vote for Obama was a message to the US and international press: “Shut up. You want a democrat in charge so bad? Fine. You think racism is the root of all evil? And the color of the President will fix this? Fine. You think Republicans are behind all the world’s problems,…fine. Here’s your multicultural democrat with a Congressional majority. Good luck.”

People from both sides said this, and polls seem to say it was the Republicans who stayed home who gave him the go.

Ed
CMU Physics, now in east Ohio.

Deborah

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