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I was listening to the radio and something a caller said resonated with me. To paraphrase, 'it feels like we elected the popular basketball jock for student council president instead of the nerdy ROTC kid'.

Yes we say we as a party didn't run as conservative, because the party has been lead by slighty to the right moderates. Therefore, or voting base isn't as energetic. And to hell with the new Generation BS. I am a member of this new generation, growing up in the Reagan, G.H.W.B, and Clinton Administrations. I can say that there are many within my generation who are stantly conservative, even would call me a moderate. However, I don't think we get the media play that those on the other side of the aisle do, and thus because we are so easily molded by popular media, many who don't have a concrete understanding of their beliefs are glade to blindly follow what they are tolled as cool or hip.
My sister is one of them. One year my junior, she said that she didn't know anything about politics, or held any real policy positions without much forethought as to why. However, come election day she was jumping up and down for Obama because she voted for him provisionally in Nevada.

I think the problem is that the public, 52+% of it at least, saw the GOP as the party in power, "the man". Therefore, they blamed all that was negative on my party. Furthermore, everyone loves to bash on President Bush, who given all the circumstances didn't do half bad (certainly note the worst president so far, certainly not the best either). Give it four years, when the President Elect Obama promises go unfulfilled, how his weak foreign policy leads to instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, how his increased taxes causes many companies to force to lay off thousands of workers, and how his liberal immigration policies will cause the working classes wages to stagnat and deflate.