Did I imagine this, or did I miss something?

[lexw]

Last night watching the news (which I never do anymore), and aside from noticing that all the news channels look like Fox now (a young attractive girl on the right, and an older gentleman on the left, someone in the middle, pretty colored boxes flashing like Las Vegas)...

...I couldn't help but notice the difference in the two celebrations:
• The news would show the Obama celebration with people dancing around waving flags, dressed in street clothes, an array of different cultures.
• And then they would cut over to the solemn and sad Romney camp where it was all trimmed and proper white people dressed in suits and ties and dresses with colorful drinks. It looked like Berlin in 1939.

Also, Romney's crowd seemed tiny. I'm confused by this: Romney's scene looked like an elitist affair, not a poised victory celebration.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. You didn't imagine it.

Dana Milbank describes the Romney "victory" party:

BOSTON • It was a victory party fit for the 1 percent.

Over in Chicago, the Obama campaign had invited 10,000 to fill the floor of the McCormick Place convention center. But here in Boston, Mitt Romney favored a more genteel soiree for an exclusive crowd.

Romney's election-night event was in a ballroom at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center that could accommodate a few hundred. Most men wore jackets and ties; women donned dresses and heels. Secret Service agents blocked reporters from mixing with the Romney supporters as they sipped cocktails and nibbled canapes.

Outside the ballroom, waiters in black tie tended bar, and Jumbotrons showed the election results on Fox News. Downstairs, Romney's big donors assembled in private rooms for finer fare; guards admitted only those whose credentials said "National Finance Committee."

More at http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/dana-milbank/dana-milbank-the-defeat-of-the-percent/article_ee2edb07-1752-5f49-adaf-769f6d01b021.html

[Hydra]

2. Like GWB said

“This is an impressive crowd. The have and have mores. Some call you the elite. I call you my base."

Romney and the GOP's real base are pitifully small...but they have enough money to buy entire countries.

[lexw]

4. Wow! Thanks! That IS obscene. What a complete a$$. I'm glad his presidency was put down. EEEEK!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Did you cover the returns here in San Diego?

You just described the wake at the Republican Party.