The Independent
The post-mortem had already begun by the time a grim-faced Mitt
Romney walked to the lectern of the Grand Ballroom at Boston’s vast
Convention Centre at around 1am and told a thinning crowd of supporters
that the game was up.
They had gone through all the stages of loss: denial, anger, and now
grief. A few of them wept, openly; one elderly woman collapsed, and had
to be helped by paramedics. In his speech, Mitt said he still “believes”
in America. But his crowd was mourning not just the loss of an
election, but the death of a country they thought they knew.
Dick
Morris, the Republican pollster who predicted a Romney landslide, lamed
the defeat on Hurricane Sandy. So did Rush Limbaugh. On Twitter, Donald
Trump blamed the “total sham” of America’s electoral college, and called
for a “revolution.”
History will record that the Republicans
failed to beat a wobbly incumbent, with anaemic approval ratings, who
(for disputed reasons) had presided over some of the worst unemployment
since the Great Depression. It will also show that the GOP has now won a
majority of the popular vote just once, in five attempts, during the
past 20 years.
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