The moderate-conservative former chairman of the Republican National Committee gives his take on last week's election results: "No amount of denial by Karl Rove
on election night or postmortem second-guessing by others on the
nomination of Romney or his selection of Ryan can spare this party from
the new math:
The electorate was 72 percent white, a group Obama lost with 39 percent
to Romney's 59 percent; 13 percent African American, a bloc that gave
the president 93 percent of their votes; 10 percent Hispanic, a group
the president won 71 percent to 27 percent (a slightly worse outcome
than in 2008, when Obama carried Latinos 67 percent to Arizona Sen. John
McCain's 31 percent). Put another way, if Romney had received the same
percentage of the Hispanic vote that McCain did, we'd be calling him
president-elect today.".
He continues his commentary: "Republicans
fundamentally failed to communicate a message that spoke to our hopes
for prosperity, for ourselves and especially for our children.
Consequently, one good debate notwithstanding, our case fell flat before
the American people. It's time to take this wayward party by the scruff of the neck and
knock some common sense into it (yes, that means no more coddling crazy)
and emerge out of this election as leaders who will speak with clarity
and honesty on the issues that matter to 100 percent of Americans."
Michael Steele: "Are We There Yet, GOP?"
