Winners And Losers From The Election Cycle

By: Victor Escalante, NewsTaco

With less than forty eight hours left to choose the next man to lead the country, both camps are turning up the echo chamber. All the pundits have spoken. All the forecasts have been made. One thing is for certain it’s going to be a nail biter. Short of a digital “hanging chad” fiasco, the tea leaves favor President Obama.
So who are the winners and losers from this election cycle?   That depends of course on who you ask but here is my list.

Winners:
Obamacare
The advertising industry
Karl Rove and his operatives
Cable channels that need partisan politics
Talking heads who obsessed about gaffes
Clint Eastwood
Bill Clinton
Mayor Julian Castro
Paul Ryan regardless of the outcome
Latinos on both sides that ran for office
Paid surrogates and operatives on both sides
Social media
Latinos 3.0 for becoming engaged in the political process and discourse
The millions of Dreamers who got legal status
All the challengers who defeated incumbents in the primaries

Losers:
The economy
The soon to be unemployed surrogates and operatives
All the politicos who made a name for themselves attacking ethnic groups
Chris Christie
Jim Lehrer
Big Bird
Tax cuts for the wealthy
John Sununu
The millions of unemployed without benefits
All the politicos who crashed and burned in the primaries
All the incumbents whose based turned on them

Post election, we will  have a more clear and definitive list from all the finger pointing. Latinos, no doubt will make history, regardless of the outcome of the election. Let’s get out the vote it’s our time.