- Sep 26, 2000
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After the hair pulling and gnashing of teeth over the next few weeks I expect the Republicans to make few changes.
The "reason they lost the election" will come down for them to a version of Occams Razor. The simplest explanation is usually the right one(in simplified terms).
And that reason will basically be the same reasons they lost prior elections. Bad candidate, bad campaign, economic times, foreign situation, or a bad policy,etc.
Anyone who thinks the Republicans, a party that has built up and lived in a fantasy world for 20 years is suddenly going to snap out of it are going to be disappointed. The Republicans are not going to suddenly start saying we were wrong on minorities, on women, on gay marriage, etc. They are going to stick with the simplest and least complicated reasons they can for losing, and make the fewest possible changes they feel they need to make to be competitive again.
The "reason they lost the election" will come down for them to a version of Occams Razor. The simplest explanation is usually the right one(in simplified terms).
And that reason will basically be the same reasons they lost prior elections. Bad candidate, bad campaign, economic times, foreign situation, or a bad policy,etc.
Anyone who thinks the Republicans, a party that has built up and lived in a fantasy world for 20 years is suddenly going to snap out of it are going to be disappointed. The Republicans are not going to suddenly start saying we were wrong on minorities, on women, on gay marriage, etc. They are going to stick with the simplest and least complicated reasons they can for losing, and make the fewest possible changes they feel they need to make to be competitive again.