Of course I am not dead. I have been working on my Masters Degree and moving. I have not had a lot of time for blogging until right up to the election.
The rumor of death that I would like to address is the rumor of the death of the Reagan Conservative Movement...as it is called by some.
Obama won. McCain ran probably the worst Presidential campaign since McGovern. (That was the Watergate Election, for those of you too young to remember.) In spite of how pessimistic the McCain campaign was, McCain still ended winning 162 electoral votes and he carried 21 states. Think about all that has happened in the last 3 months. This was much better than expected. Republicans and Conservatives should be overjoyed.
Congress. The Democrats still do not have a filler buster proof majority.
Governorships. The Dems only gained one new governorship.
Ballot initiatives. The only state-wide ballot initiative that the conservative movement lost was the physician assisted suicide bill in the state of Washington. This is more a debate of medical ethics, in my mind, than it is a debate about conservatism.
One lesson that the Religious Right had better learn from this election is an appreciation of who their allies are. Many were opposed to Mitt Romney simply because of his religion. This was not the reason that Obama won. As I said, McCain ran a lousy and embarrassing campaign. But look at this news story and remember that this protest took place in Salt Lake City and it was about an ballot issue in California. But the election would have been closer had Mitt Romney been on the final ballot.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=4728411
Learn this lesson well, and the pendulum will swing back our way when the economy does.
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