 strangest thing is that the question i think for the republican party going forward is is that replicable right in the same way that the democrats sort of fell for the barack obama model but they didn't have barack obama our republican is going to do the same thing so here's my grand unified field theory of politics is that basically everything changed in 2012 it wasn't 08 when obama won the first time it was when he won the second time because by all rights he should have lost he was wildly unpopular with the american public his politics sucked