Is history repeating itself? Is the GOP following the Whigs?

[Xiahou]

I read the Article. Its full of wishful thinking. When it comes to the Romney campaign there is hardly anything that was fairly well documented. Everyone got everything wrong, but now all of a sudden Republicans have a crystal ball to look at? And it says the same crap they were saying in 2012!? Yeeeaah lemme know how that works out in 2016.

Wishful thinking on the part of who? Marc Ambinder isn't a GOP flack, last I checked.

Democrats are going to vote for the Democrat nominee- there's not much helping that. At best, the GOP can convince some Dems that their nominee is so awful that some of them stay home.

Exit polls showed Romney winning independents in 2012, but that didn't save him. The GOP is in a tough spot demographically. They need to turn out every conservative voter they can if they hope to win. You're not going to do that by running to the center.

By the way, I knew you didn't read the article because I realized a couple hours after I posted it that the link was broken (since fixed).