How are republicans going to tackle the demographic problems in general elections?

[Toro]

t that point people might as well for Dem.

The truth is that fewer people voted for Romney than for McCain. I heard Tim Philips from AMericans For Prosperity this week. He addressed just this point. He said conventional thinking is that the base is tapped out. No more Republicans out there. So we need to go after the bisexual female Hispanic handicapped vote.
It is nonsense. There are thousands and thousands of potential Republicans who have not registered and do not vote. Getting them charged up and to the polls will result in big GOP wins.
The Dems should be shaking in their boots over Obamacare. Getting the website working will actually make tthings worse for them, as people suffer sticker shock from the cost of new policies.

FALSE. Why do people post something like this without even looking it up? Right wing talk radio frequently makes things up but conservatives treat it as gospel.

You are right.
In key states like VA that was the case.

Romney won more votes than any other Republican in history except for Bush in 2004.

 

[JimH52]

The GOP could set up a camp to teach young men.....(screw the women).......how to be good Republicans. You know, kinda like the therapy that was set up to teach people who discovered that they were guy, not to be gay. That worked pretty well, didn't it?

 

[Toro]

3. Historically, voting patterns change over time.

True

For example, Bush won 44% of Hispanic voters in 2000. In 2012, Romney won half that.

Perhaps one day, the GOP becomes less scary to immigrants and they can become competitive again on the national level.

 

[JimH52]

FALSE. Why do people post something like this without even looking it up? Right wing talk radio frequently makes things up but conservatives treat it as gospel.

You are right.
In key states like VA that was the case.

Romney won more votes than any other Republican in history except for Bush in 2004.

And Gore won the popular vote in 2000.....AND HE AND MITT BOTH LOST!

 

[JimH52]

3. Historically, voting patterns change over time.

True

For example, Bush won 44% of Hispanic voters in 2000. In 2012, Romney won half that.

Perhaps one day, the GOP becomes less scary to immigrants and they can become competitive again on the national level.

Holding up the Immigration Bill is not so endearing....

 

[FA_Q2]

It would be far better to stop treating people like demographic blocks and actually treat them like Americans. It is pathetic that there are those here that think it is acceptable to parse people into groups and try and pander to them with empty lies.

This is what our political system has come to and one of the reasons that we are fucking this nation up. We are AMERICANS, period.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The most uninformed comment in this thread is "The only voting bloc that has been consistent are blacks. Every other voting bloc shifts from election to election."

If the GOP does not honestly reach out to women, minorities, and Hispanics, we will keep losing.

Are you saying women and Hispanics don't want jobs and would rather draw welfare?

Yup, you keep saying that and watch them (not) vote GOP.

You have to accept your approach is wrong.

 

[ScienceRocks]

3. Historically, voting patterns change over time.

True

For example, Bush won 44% of Hispanic voters in 2000. In 2012, Romney won half that.

Perhaps one day, the GOP becomes less scary to immigrants and they can become competitive again on the national level.

Holding up the Immigration Bill is not so endearing....

It's time to pass a bill that rewards hard work and education...Punishes gangs and people with violent past.

Republicans can win 40% of this population again if they allow it.

 

[Meathead]

The most uninformed comment in this thread is "The only voting bloc that has been consistent are blacks. Every other voting bloc shifts from election to election."

If the GOP does not honestly reach out to women, minorities, and Hispanics, we will keep losing.

Are you saying women and Hispanics don't want jobs and would rather draw welfare?

Yup, you keep saying that and watch them (not) vote GOP.

You have to accept your approach is wrong.

You're implying that women and Hispanics would rather be on welfare than work, not me. It's racist and sexist

 

[candycorn]

This is question they should be asking themselves.

The plan for the GOP seems to be focusing on Congress; dividing the States into rich v. poor, educated v. non educated, ethnic v. "native", and aiming for 50.1% of the electorate in every case.

You really have to wonder about the national strategy when they have gone out of their way to alienate women, hispanics, and the lower-to-middle income Americans.

On the positive side, Americans have a long history of letting the pendlum of public opinion swing back and fourth between these two parties we've had for a while and it's swinging back in the GOP's favor.

They also have applied some window dressing in a few places to patch up around the smoking crater of their policies.

 

[zeke]

This is question they should be asking themselves.

I think right wingers need to keep pointing out stories about darkies behaving badly, put just a little more fire into their anti-immigrant rhetoric, increase the efforts to keep blacks from voting (even if it means a few seniors fall by the wayside, too), bash gays as loudly and as often as possible, push for a federal law to shove a white wand up every woman's twat who wants an abortion. And, of course, attack multiculturalism at every opportunity. "War on Christmas", etc.

Oh, and demand we cut food stamps, welfare, Social Security, and Medicaid to get the budget under control, but call for an increase in Defense spending. It goes without saying ObamaCare's repeal needs to be the first thing out of every right wing politician's mouth. Supermarket openings, town hall meetings, public debates, photo ops.

The occasional remark about Michelle Obama's big African ass can't hurt, either. As well as referring to the current President as Barry Soetero.

This is a foolproof way to attract the mud pe-..., errrrrr..., "minorities" to the GOP.

My black friends don't like to be called darkies. Republicans are all for LEGAL immigration. Anyone who can't prove who they are with a picture ID can cast a provisional ballot. Gays do a good job of playing the victim as long as you continue to encourage them. The war is on Christianity and that includes elimination of the Christmas parties in schools. Muslims love Democrats for their help in denigrating Christians and calling it multiculturalism.

Now that we are $17 trillion in debt, something needs to be cut and there are a number of bad actors out there that will take advantage of a weakened military. Obama has managed to turn the country into a society where half of the people are dependent on the other half for food, shelter, color flat screens, cell phones and all of the other amenities they used to have to work for.

Obamacare is a total disaster and will collapse in a few years because the federal government is incapable of managing anything as complicated and important to the well being of so many people.

The Post Office is a good example. They do a very good job of delivering the mail IMO. But, the same job could be done by a private company at NO cost to the taxpayers.

After the 8 years of you assholes calling Bush stupid, liar, Hitler etc, you can expect a little payback from the assholes on the other side.

This is an interesting development about delivering the mail. How is it that the hated government can get a private company to deliver the mail for free? How does that work?

 

[Freewill]

We can win if we honestly reach out to minorities and women.

If we don't, the Dems keep winning.

May I add, we don't want liberal Democrats.

 

[rightwinger]

It would be far better to stop treating people like demographic blocks and actually treat them like Americans. It is pathetic that there are those here that think it is acceptable to parse people into groups and try and pander to them with empty lies.

This is what our political system has come to and one of the reasons that we are fucking this nation up. We are AMERICANS, period.

Typical rightwing bullshit

Demographics don't matter to Republicans?

The old want the same thing as the young
The rich have the same needs as the poor
People on farms have the same needs as those in the cities

Republican policies fit them all?

 

[FJO]

The question in the OP about demographic change must refer to to the people who claim to be Hispanics, but could not find Spain (you know, HISPANIA, the Latin name for that country) on the globe if their lives depended on it, or they insist on being called Latinos, invalid for the same reason. These so-called Hispanics/Latinos are Indians, who forgot their native tongue and speak a language, sort of like Spanish.

The Black population might as well be written off by Republicans. One can lead a horse to the trough, but no way to make it drink, a classic case of "none so blind as those who refuse to see".

Before the accusations of RACISM start polluting, let me say that my problem is not with Hispanics/Latinos in general, only with those who are in America illegally, their supporters and of course those whose priority in being Hispanic/Latino-American is the first part and piss on being American.

 

[Jughead]

By going further to the right by electing a "true conservative." The only reason they do not win is because they have been electing RHINO's. Screw the moderates an independents!!!!

Absolutely! Cruz in 2016.

 

[Mac1958]

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On its current trajectory, the GOP is going to continue to fade as the country continues to get "darker".

The party's only hope, the only way it will avoid being nothing more than just a secondary, regional, pest party, is if it finds a way to communicate its message far better than it currently is. Maybe that could come in the form of just one person, or perhaps they could figure it out as a group.

If it insists on clinging to social issues as political issues, they'll have to find a way to improve that messaging as well.

Right now, no such person or messaging strategy exists.

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[FJO]

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On its current trajectory, the GOP is going to continue to fade as the country continues to get "darker".

The party's only hope, the only way it will avoid being nothing more than just a secondary, regional, pest party, is if it finds a way to communicate its message far better than it currently is. Maybe that could come in the form of just one person, or perhaps they could figure it out as a group.

If it insists on clinging to social issues as political issues, they'll have to find a way to improve that messaging as well.

Right now, no such person or messaging strategy exists.

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And what's not there to rejoice?

One rap "artist" is worth at least five opera singers, one book by the Reverend Sharpton is worth at least five plays by Shakespeare, five novels by Charles Dickens, and one paint can graffiti is worth at least five paintings by Reubens, Leonardo or Michelangelo.

And, of course, one Robert Mugabe is worth at least five George Washingtons and one Barak Hussain Obama is worth all dead white presidents before him.

When all these dreams are fulfilled, there is going to be a new nation on the North American continent, identical to Burkina Faso or Liberia, formerly known as the United States of America.

 

[Redfish]

This is question they should be asking themselves.

The plan for the GOP seems to be focusing on Congress; dividing the States into rich v. poor, educated v. non educated, ethnic v. "native", and aiming for 50.1% of the electorate in every case.

You really have to wonder about the national strategy when they have gone out of their way to alienate women, hispanics, and the lower-to-middle income Americans.

On the positive side, Americans have a long history of letting the pendlum of public opinion swing back and fourth between these two parties we've had for a while and it's swinging back in the GOP's favor.

They also have applied some window dressing in a few places to patch up around the smoking crater of their policies.

you are nothing but a talking point repeater with no original thought ability, fluke.

you contribute nothing to the discussion with your blatant lies and false inuendo.

go away, you waste our time and typing space.

 

[Redfish]

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On its current trajectory, the GOP is going to continue to fade as the country continues to get "darker".

The party's only hope, the only way it will avoid being nothing more than just a secondary, regional, pest party, is if it finds a way to communicate its message far better than it currently is. Maybe that could come in the form of just one person, or perhaps they could figure it out as a group.

If it insists on clinging to social issues as political issues, they'll have to find a way to improve that messaging as well.

Right now, no such person or messaging strategy exists.

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Right, Alan West is very white, so is Mia Love, Thomas Sowell, Deneen Borelli, Bill Cosby, Bobby Jindal, Nicki Haley, and many others. Characterizing the GOP as old and white is simply not accurate.

Clinging to issues that maintain our american culture is a winning strategy, unless you think that the USA would be better off living under the ghetto rap culture.

Its a false narrative to claim that the GOP must become dem-lite in order to win. What they need to do is stick to their guns and demonstrate that fiscal and social conservatism is better than liberalism and marxism.

The GOP needs to strengthen its message, not dilute it with left wing socialism.

 

[Mac1958]

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On its current trajectory, the GOP is going to continue to fade as the country continues to get "darker".

The party's only hope, the only way it will avoid being nothing more than just a secondary, regional, pest party, is if it finds a way to communicate its message far better than it currently is. Maybe that could come in the form of just one person, or perhaps they could figure it out as a group.

If it insists on clinging to social issues as political issues, they'll have to find a way to improve that messaging as well.

Right now, no such person or messaging strategy exists.

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Right, Alan West is very white, so is Mia Love, Thomas Sowell, Deneen Borelli, Bill Cosby, Bobby Jindal, Nicki Haley, and many others. Characterizing the GOP as old and white is simply not accurate.

Clinging to issues that maintain our american culture is a winning strategy, unless you think that the USA would be better off living under the ghetto rap culture.

Its a false narrative to claim that the GOP must become dem-lite in order to win. What they need to do is stick to their guns and demonstrate that fiscal and social conservatism is better than liberalism and marxism.

The GOP needs to strengthen its message, not dilute it with left wing socialism.

This is a perfect example of what's hurting the GOP. You've completely missed my point, as I suspected someone would.

This "dem-lite" and "socialism" stuff is crippling you guys. Look at what I wrote - nowhere did I say to change the message. I suggested improving the messaging. There is a difference, a huge difference, between "message" and "messaging". Yet you automatically assumed the opposite and went off on the standard "dem-lite" script.

Seriously, I think the first thing the party needs to do is switch to decaf. And then maybe turn off the radio for a couple of weeks.

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