Happy Days are Here Again For The GOP

Is the author correct or smoking crack?
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Many conservatives are in a deep funk over the election results. But this gloom and doom is misguided. Going forward, conservatives have strong reasons to believe that the American people will hear their message in 2016 and beyond.
President Obama's electoral win has obscured the fact that his margin of victory was in reality very slim. The Wall Street Journal has pointed out this striking fact: Mitt Romney "would be headed for the White House if he'd persuaded fewer than 333,000 Americans to either change their minds or go to the polls."
Romney's low favorability ratings mark him as one of the weakest presidential candidates in modern history. Nevertheless, Republicans made major gains among crucial demographic groups in 2012, as Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center noted in an analysis of the presidential vote. Compared with 2008, the party was up among men (four points), whites (four), younger voters (six), white Catholics (seven) and Jews (nine).
At other levels of government, Republicans did surprisingly well. "The presidential election results looked a lot like 2008's," explains political analyst Michael Barone. "But the farther down the ballot you go, the more the results look like 2010's" -- a banner year for conservatives.
In 2012, Republicans kept their majority in the U.S. House, where Democrats failed to come close to making up the huge losses they sustained in 2010. But the GOP's most resounding success came at the state level. The party won every governor's seat up for re-election, and added North Carolina. Republicans now occupy the governor's mansion in 30 states, the largest majority for either party since 2000.
Americans' receptivity to the conservative message is likely to increase as the consequences of Obama's reckless policies become evident. In his first four years, the president racked up the four largest deficits since World War II. America's debt stands at $16 trillion and is swelling by $1 trillion a year.
So far, Obama has financed this largely through unsustainable government borrowing. Going forward, his proposed tax increases on "the rich" won't cover his ambitious spending plans.
According to the Wall Street Journal, all the higher tax revenue Obama seeks would raise a mere $82 billion a year at best. But last year's deficit was $1.1 trillion "and that's before Obamacare kicks in and the baby boom cohort keeps retiring." A large tax increase on the middle class is inevitable.  http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/179730291.html
I think the author, Katherine Kerstan is correct in her facts and even most intelligent liberals would probably agree with most of what she says.
But those voting for the Democrats, more often or not, are they type that likes to play with shiny, jingly objects, like keys on a key chain.  They are either told by their union bosses who to vote for or they vote because of their government "benefits", like welfare, food stamps, free school lunches, social security etc.
So, yes, the GOP may win the intellectual argument, what good does it do if they lose at the ballot box?