By Brian Howey
INDIANAPOLIS – President Obama’s reelection victory has been sliced and dissected relentlessly since Nov. 6 and as I analyzed earlier, part of it came down to the “female vote” and another centered on the various Republican demographic and personality dilemmas.
Washington Post columnist George Will observed: “The election’s outcome was foreshadowed by Mitt Romney struggling as long as he did to surmount a notably weak field of Republican rivals. His salient deficiency was not of character but of chemistry, that indefinable something suggested by the term empathy.”
Will went on to say that “the person who should have been the Republican nominee” – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels - had in February 2011 “laconically warned conservatives about a prerequisite for persuading people to make painful adjustments to a rickety entitlement state.”
Daniels had told a CPAC audience, “A more affirmative, ‘better angels’ approach to voters is really less an aesthetic than a practical one. With apologies for the banality, I submit that, as we ask Americans to join us on such a boldly different course, it would help if they liked us, just a bit.”
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