Michael Barone is one of our top political analysts. Writing for RealClearPolitics, he deflates the idea that President Obama can obliterate the Republican Party.
Barone makes many valid points, perhaps most persuasive is that Obama only carried 26 states in 2012. I also like his conclusion:
George W. Bush's 51 percent re-election, with 11.5 million more votes than four years before, got his strategist Karl Rove musing about a permanent Republican majority. That didn't happen.Amen.
Now Obama's 51 percent re-election, with 3.6 million fewer votes than four years before, has Democrats talking about annihilating the Republican Party. That's not likely to happen, either.
