The London Economist provides some sober analysis on the Republican meltdown that represents the Presidential Election of 2012. The Republican disconnect between the young, women and Latinos could spell a new era of demographic consequences that are now clearly irreversible and that will mandate Republican philosophical change that may not be possible for another generation. Millionaire money, gerrymandering and voter suppression is clearly not enough to the blossoming diversity and generational succession that is now apparent in the “NEW AMERICAN ELECTORATE.”
“FOR conservatives casting about for comfort, there are plenty of plausible reasons to dismiss talk of a crisis. Mitt Romney could have run a better campaign. He reacted slowly when Barack Obama defined him as a heartless plutocrat, and flip-flopped on policies so frequently that even campaign allies struggled to keep …”
This Economist article is only one soul-searching conservative attempt to explain the current state of the Republican mind. It may take Conservatives, Tea Party stalwarts and Right Wingers another decade to figure it out. By then, the NEW AMERICAN ELECTORATE may have moved on. America is moving forward right past the right, its billionaires and its antiquated vision of “a real america”.
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December 9, 2012 • 7:08 pm 0
International: The lottery of life methodology | The Economist
The Economist Magazine provides a world view on how countries are doing for their citizens … The report speaks to quality of life and satisfaction providing an index that measures each country’s status, like a report card, on its population.
The USA used to be number 1 in this index as early as 1988. Today it has fallen to 16th.
This precipitous fall during the last quarter century (1988 to 2012) is a result of the American obsession with taxes, healthcare and education… Not an obsession to fix these things but an incapacity to do so ..
Read the Economist report, it may be an important wakeup call to the 1% who seek more and more while the country cracks and crumbles…
“The life satisfaction scores for 2006 on scale of 1 to 10 for 130 countries from the Gallup Poll are related in a multivariate regression to various factors. As many as 11 indicators are statistically significant. Together these indicators explain some 85% of the inter-country variation in life satisfaction scores. The values of the life satisfaction scores that are predicted by our indicators represent a countrys quality of life index. The coefficients in the estimated equation weight automatically the importance of the various factors. We can utilise the estimated equation for 2006 to calculate index values for year in the past and future, allowing for comparison over time as well across …”
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