Is the writing on the wall for conservatism?
- Thread starter Legion Troll
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depends....
Republicans have done a VERY good job at the state level gerrymandering seats and getting governorships.
For national level politics, especially the presidency, it's definately harder and harder. The republicans simply do not have it in them to build the broad type of coalition needed for the presidency. That said, I think they'll still be very strong in congress for a very long time, if not even stronger moving forward. They've done a very good job insulating their congressional and senate seats for the most part.
Republicans have done a VERY good job at the state level gerrymandering seats and getting governorships.
For national level politics, especially the presidency, it's definately harder and harder. The republicans simply do not have it in them to build the broad type of coalition needed for the presidency. That said, I think they'll still be very strong in congress for a very long time, if not even stronger moving forward. They've done a very good job insulating their congressional and senate seats for the most part.
and honestly gridlock is prob the best thing for this nation. It's pretty much the best thing I could get out of it realistically.
Leonthecat
Racism Watchdog
By disenfranchising all Americans except for old white guys the GOP has written their own demise.
Reince Priebus told them what they needed to do after Willard Romney's humiliating defeat and the message of inclusiveness fell on deaf ears as the GOP is now going on to nominate Donald Trump.
The writing is indeed on the wall, with shifting demographics the GOPs worst enemy was time. Now it is their own pig-headedness and bigotry that has sped up their undoing.
Reince Priebus told them what they needed to do after Willard Romney's humiliating defeat and the message of inclusiveness fell on deaf ears as the GOP is now going on to nominate Donald Trump.
The writing is indeed on the wall, with shifting demographics the GOPs worst enemy was time. Now it is their own pig-headedness and bigotry that has sped up their undoing.
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
At one time, sensible Republican leaders talked about broadening their base beyond white (non-Hispanic) voters.
Over the past three decades the white vote, in a presidential election, has shrunk from nearly 90 percent to 72 percent (in 2012).
Meanwhile, the white content of the Republican Party has stayed around 90 percent as the white percentage of the Democratic Party has shrunk to 56 percent.
If the GOP nominee wins the same share of the white vote as Mitt Romney won in 1012 (59 percent), he would need to win 30 percent of the nonwhite vote. Romney won only 17 percent of nonwhite voters in 2012.
Donald Trump is not popular with nonwhite voters. In a potential match-up against Clinton, only one in five nonwhite voters sides with Trump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/5-things-weve-learned-abo_1_b_9794114.html
Over the past three decades the white vote, in a presidential election, has shrunk from nearly 90 percent to 72 percent (in 2012).
Meanwhile, the white content of the Republican Party has stayed around 90 percent as the white percentage of the Democratic Party has shrunk to 56 percent.
If the GOP nominee wins the same share of the white vote as Mitt Romney won in 1012 (59 percent), he would need to win 30 percent of the nonwhite vote. Romney won only 17 percent of nonwhite voters in 2012.
Donald Trump is not popular with nonwhite voters. In a potential match-up against Clinton, only one in five nonwhite voters sides with Trump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/5-things-weve-learned-abo_1_b_9794114.html