Official GOP Gloating Thread.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The ground game was a big thing. I wonder if they had done an immense but low key organization in VA, yes they did make some incredible improvements after 2013 Cuccinelli loss, but with a stronger effort they might have pushed Gillespie in. You never know when magic will happen and it is why I thought that Romney should build a GOTV organization in ME/PA/MI/MN/NM/OR if for no other reason than to force the Democrats to defend them late if something like a good debate win or two were to happen and make them close. Romney won the debate but couldn't capitalize on it effectively and had to plow through that OH wall that was unassailable for him.

I knew this as far back as 2008, to those who were didn't just stop withose races blown by bs in 2010 and looked further down ballot that Republicans can indeed still win in Colorado even as a Conservative or relatively conservative candidate, it is about delivery and candidate quality. VA is also still a swing seat as you had practically no campaign and yet the natural inclinations of the state combined with the year's sentiments produced a close result in spite of having a popular, well-entrenched incumbent.

Minority turnout was lower but Republicans did get to 35% with Hispanics 48% with Asians and 45% with others (I assume NAtive Americans) and 10% with African Americans. Those are significant improvements over Romney's performances and it is a start on which Republicas needs to build on in order to have a chance in 2016. 40%-55%-50%-15% is a reasonable target in my view amongst all those groups respectively.