Hell, kos, they're all pretty damn impotent these days.  Needlessly so, imo.  They don't know what to do with power when they have it, and when they're up against a bankrupt GOP and President 24%.  Alas...

Hey, nice website, btw.  You new to this?

BenGoshi
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on this assessment; leadership isn't about this false dichotomy between action/talk that you've established.  Its about understanding both long term and short term victories and goals.

Also have to if not disagree with this posts' analysis, then at least point out the limits of the analysis' explanatory power: while it may be true that demonizing immigration didn't do the trick for the GOP, at least in Virginia, demonizing immigration did prove successful, but for the Democrats who did it.  There were a disturbing number of Democrats running in state elections who were spouting the "scary brown people" lines.  And some of them did get elected.  I think this question is a whole lot more complicated than the two dimensional way its approached when folks say things like "the GOP didn't score with immigration", or whatever.  

I'd like to hope you are right, that exurban America isn't going to "fall" for this, but the execution of these campaigns and even their outcomes, don't necessarily suggest optimism.  In other words, I think we need to look at more than who won or lost the elections.