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Was 1960 the last election when the GOP made a serious play for black votes?

It’s kind of amazing that Richard Nixon was using this rhetoric in 1960, and then in 1968 used racial resentment as a wedge issue. More amazing? That no Republican running for national office would be caught dead saying these words today.

We’ll have more on Barack Obama’s (likely) victory tomorrow. And if Mitt Romney wins? Well, that would be a bigger shock than finding out Magic Mike is actually a dark, bleak, pessimistic recession film. (Which I found out yesterday!)

Election night will be a Grade-A nightmare for people addicted tosocial media

Remember those halcyon days of, like, 2008, when you could experience Election Day by turning on the television and watching Wolf Blitzer tell you the results from various states’ exit polling as their polls closed? A bunch of you will still experience the 2012 election that way, but another bunch of you will end up in the fetal position, furiously scratching the backs of your necks, because Twitter and Facebook will be unusable from about noon on Tuesday through 8pm on Wednesday.