Romney vs. BO - Saddo's kids race mongering thread

[Kirkland Laing]

And now a word from the Christian Men's Defense Network:

What the Right Doesn’t Get About Elections | Christian Men's Defense Network

I was too late, the guy has made it private. What they don't get about elections is demographics. Like that Senator said a while ago, there aren't enough angry white guys to make the GOP a viable long term proposition. They're going to have to at a minimum support an immigration reform that Hispanics will vote for when Obama sets one in motion sometime in the next two years, but supporting it will make the GOP base melt down. They're between a rock and a hard place. Decades of bashing minorities to win the majority vote is coming back to bite then in the arse and there's nothing they can do about it.

Shame, because it was pretty great. VC covered the gist of it.

Beyond the hahalarious stuff yesterday that was far and wide, my takeaway from pundits on the right kind of went like this.

1. "Yea, we got it all wrong. Time to stop with the rapey, boo minorities, lolwoman and rights stuff. Make a new plan."

or

2. We got screwed by all of number 1.


I guess time will tell which way it goes, but they for sure have some hard work and soul searching to do.

You know your party has a problem when somebody asks you "did the rape guy win?" and your answer is "which one?". Just look at Lyle's "the GOP is inclusive" post for why the GOP base is so epically clueless about why nobody wants anything to do with them.

Bush the Lesser received 54 percent of the non-Hispanic white vote in 2000 and finished in a dead heat with Al Gore. Senator McCain (R-Get Off My Lawn) got 55 percent of that vote in 2008 and lost the election by seven percentage points. If the current voting percentages among white, black, Asian and Hispanic stay the same -- and they'll get less white -- the Republican nominee will lose by 14 points in 2020.

Every four years, a new 18–22-year-old cohort arrives that is more liberal than the one that has died off in the interim and a big bunch of mainly GOP oldsters cark it. The Republicans face a double peril with the youth vote. A far lower proportion of young voters are white, and those who are white are far less likely than their parents or grandparents to vote Republican. White voters over the age of 65 selected Romney by a twenty eight point margin. White voters under 30 split evenly. If they'd been facing a decent economy as they left high school/college they would have gone for Obama by 25+ points and will do for the Democrat in future.

Basically the GOP is fucked unless they reach out to every single group in the country but to do that they'll shatter their base.