“We did deliver those states,” said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the federation of labor unions. “Without organized labor, none of those would have been in the president’s column.”
Probably in the end it's all of the above: media bias, the dream of the Obama that the press is loathe to offend, changing demographics that for various reasons - some understandable, some risible - swells the ranks of besotted liberals, a unionized ground game that by its very definition was incestuous and corrupt, a natural disaster that allowed Obama to don the bomber jacket and play the empathetic but still oh so cool president role as if the job was nothing more than a photo spread in GQ - and a fine but less than perfect candidate on the right who just simply lacked the requisite attributes to defeat this maddening leviathan.
I suppose if one is a worried conservative looking for a bright side, the fact that given all these advantages Obama still did not win by much would be it. Cold comfort.
