Time is running out for the GOP if they want to replace Trump

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Some Republicans are panicky about the durable dominance of Trump with the GOP base.

They are right to worry, but I don’t feel much sympathy.

Trump is a problem of their own creation.

Republicans have averted their gaze from Trump’s attacks on women, Hispanics and immigrants.

Trump just re-tweeted a graphic with invented statistics showing, falsely, that black people are responsible for most killings of white people.

Disseminating this bogus graphic, which appears to have originated with neo-Nazis, followed a week in which Trump talked about forcing American Muslims to be registered in a database, putting mosques under surveillance and possibly closing them.

On Saturday, a black man at a Trump rally in Birmingham, Ala., was kicked and punched by white men in the crowd after he fell to the ground and one of the men put his hands around his neck as if to choke him. Trump’s response? The man “should have been roughed up.”

Trump surges in the polls, regaining the lead he had lost before the Paris attacks.

Voting begins in Iowa on Feb. 1, and, a month later, 16 states will have voted. By the end of March, 64 percent of Republican delegates will have been awarded.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-problem-of-the-gops-own-creation/2015/11/23/1fbcdf2c-9226-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
 
As GOP primary voters consider whether Donald Trump carries the party banner, it’s worth considering how the frontrunner could be Barry Goldwater 2.0 on the issue of race and Hispanics.

This would be terrible for Republicans if they actually want to win.

Goldwater destroyed GOP relations with African-American voters, and Trump is poised to destroy relations with Hispanic voters.

Because the majority of babies born today are non-white, if the GOP selects Trump, he could relegate the party to demographic oblivion.

African-American support of the GOP was a solid 39 percent in 1956 and a decent 32 percent in 1960.

But after opposing the Civil Rights Act, Republican nominee Goldwater garnered a pitiful 6 percent, and black support has floundered in single digits or low teens ever since.

The Republican “southern strategy” embraced by Richard Nixon further exacerbated the social breakdown between black voters and the GOP.

Subsequent leaders like Jack Kemp and Ken Mehlman strove to mend relations between Republicans and black voters, with little impact.



http://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2015/10/25/channeling-goldwater-could-trump-force-gop-into-demographic-irrelevance/
 
Trump is on track toward becoming a neo-Goldwater figure.

Gallup data shows that Trump’s favorability with Hispanics at net negative 51 percent, an unattractive outlier compared to all other GOP candidates .

Ted Cruz is a distant second in negativity, just 7 percent, and on the polar opposite side, candidate Jeb Bush is a net positive 11 percent.

Hillary Clinton’s net positives are a strong 40 percent among Hispanics, according to Gallup.



http://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2015/10/25/channeling-goldwater-could-trump-force-gop-into-demographic-irrelevance/
 
They saw they were on the wrong side of the changing demographics in 2012 with Priebus' autopsy report, but they still doubled down on racists like Trump alienating minorities more than ever before. The GOP are their own worst enemy. Pass the popcorn.
 
I'll give my usual primary vote to a Paul. I caucused for Ron in 2008 and 2012 (and I actually helped get my precinct to vote for him in one of the two), and I will likely do the same for Rand next year.
 
Threedee said:
I'll give my usual primary vote to a Paul. I caucused for Ron in 2008 and 2012 (and I actually helped get my precinct to vote for him in one of the two), and I will likely do the same for Rand next year.
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He's the only one with true outsider views.
 
Ted Cruz is starting to move up which makes me happy. Hopefully he can continue to move up and really challenge Trump.
 
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