Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Conservatives (and others) explore the election loss

I'm still worried the DMR endorsement of Romney will cost Obama Iowa. Especially after Romney's "gifts" comment.
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Richard Parker:

On election night, it became the most re-tweeted photo in the history of social media: a picture of President Obama hugging his wife, Michelle.

But the dissemination of that iconic image is only the tip of a far larger iceberg that sank Mitt Romney. Yes, demographics helped Obama beat him. But so did the changing landscape of media consumption. The very groups ' young women, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian-Americans ' that made the difference are among the fastest adopters of social and mobile media.

Alexis C. Madrigal writes a must read article about

How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection

John Tantillo:

Republicans lost because they forgot marketing

Jamelle Bouie:

One last thing: Ignoring, for now, the fact that the Affordable Care Act provides benefits for all Americans ' and not just African Americans and Latinos ' there's something odd about this line of criticism. Voters elect and support politicians to do things for them. There's nothing illegitimate about the fact that Obama won by providing tangible benefits to people who needed them. And in fact, if elected president, this was Romney's plan as well ' large tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, who don't need them but would like them all the same. That Romney doesn't see those measures as 'gifts' is a sign of how blinded he is by his class.

Sean Trende:

Like death, taxes, and the sun rising in the east, there is nothing more certain after a presidential election than a swift and usually overwrought round of analysis and advice for the losers. So it is this year for Republicans. If you Google 'Republicans Whigs,' and confine your search to the past week, you will find multiple pages dedicated to the proposition that demographic trends are waiting to overwhelm the Republican Party, which is now a regional rump party awaiting extinction.

David Frum:

Here's How Republicans Can Win Again

Ramesh Ponnuru:

All of these writers are intelligent people (some of them friends of mine). None of them makes the mistake of assuming that this election should have been easy to win given the weak economy, the public's dissatisfaction with the status quo, and the unpopularity of Obamacare. They know that the economy has been improving, that the Democratic base in presidential races has been expanding for decades, and that the public still blames George W. Bush and his party for an economic crisis that began during his second term. Nor are they entirely wrong in their diagnoses of Romney's distinctive weaknesses and errors. They err mainly in attributing too much importance to them.

Romney was not a drag on the Republican party. The Republican party was a drag on him.

Another must-read.

Added:

The President was right; the fever keeps breaking. WSJ: "a remarkable shift in tone" on taxes post-election.  http://t.co/...
' @MarkHalperin via Twitter for BlackBerry®