The results are in for this week's Watcher's Council nominations. Both of the first place posts focused on how the GOP can rebuild after the Nov. 4 trainwreck - not a particularly straightforward question given that both electoral dynamics and demographic trends indicate that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. The winner among the Council posts was Bookworm Room's post Reaching New Demographics, which focused on efforts to bring minorities into the GOP fold. The runner-up was A Prospective Obama Administration from The Glittering Eye about exactly what we shouldn't expect over the next 4-8 years. The first place non-Council post - The Great Leap Forward: How the Heck Can We Win Anyway? from Big Lizards - focused directly on how to prepare for the next election. Second place post was tangentially - but critically - related to the consequences of the previous election: Seraphic Secret's Israel: The One Bomb State focused on Israel's missile defense programs. Given that Obama's Iran-focused diplomacy is bound to fail, the only defense Israel will have left may be US-backed missile defense programs - which Obama wants to cut.

References:
* Winners: New Strategies for New Times [Watcher of Weasels]
* More on 2010 [Frum / NRO]
* The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left [WaPo]
* Reaching new demographics [Bookworm Room]
* A Prospective Obama Administration (Updated) [Glittering Eye]
* The Great Leap Forward: How the Heck Can We Win Anyway? [Big Lizards]
* Israel: The One Bomb State
* Iran Rejects Talks With Obama, Foreign Policy Sophisticates Confused [MR]
* Detente In Our Time - Obama Prepares To Sell Out Poland In The Face Of Russian Aggression. Again. (Plus: By The Way, Missile Defense Works) [MR]

Previously:
* Global Investors And Economists Reacting To Obama Election With Total Meltdown (UPDATE: Moran: "Simplistic Notion That People Who Have Wealth Are Entitled To Keep It")
* Great News: Arctic Melting Promises New Resources, Geopolitical Disaster (Plus: Dems Killing Our Nuclear Deterrent)
* Onion Tries, Fails To Capture Full Absurdity Of Post-Election Obama Cultists (Plus: They're "Sitting At Phone" Asking "What Do You Want Me To Do Next"?)