The GOP Better Start Paying Attention to Demographics!

[Mustang]

First a few facts.

In 1980, white voters cast 88% of the total presidential vote. By 2008, that percentage had fallen to 74%.

In 2000, Bush won 55% of the white vote, and even though he won the election, he lost the popular vote by 540,000.

In 2008, McCain ALSO won 55% of the white vote, but he lost the election by 7 points.

And finally, the proportion of overall votes cast by white voters is expected to decline even more in 2012.

So...

The GOP definitily needs to attract minority voters by addressing some of their concerns.

But what's happening? Conservatives are actually driving AWAY minority voters with, among other things, their hostile rhetoric regarding immigration reform and their racially charged broadsides directed at President Obama, his wife, Michelle, and other high-profile African-Americans.

Hey, you conservatives can (and probably will) do whatever you please. But circling your wagons and projecting a hostile attitude toward minorities is going to marginalize the GOP in a few elections cycles.

Better wake up!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oh Dear, this does not bode well for Republican's taking the Kennedy seat or governorship in NJ, VA or our chances in 2010.

Oh Dear.

 

[whitehall]

Aren't "minority voters" concerns everyone's concerns? Why does the left always judge people by the color of their skins?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Aren't "minority voters" concerns everyone's concerns? Why does the left always judge people by the color of their skins?

Racism

 

[Mustang]

Oh Dear, this does not bode well for Republican's taking the Kennedy seat or governorship in NJ, VA or our chances in 2010.

Oh Dear.

Laugh all you want. The demographic trend is solid. Either the GOP adapts to the changing demographics or it risks becoming a regional party with limited chances at winning national elections.

Personally, I question whether or not conservatives are prepared to make room for minority concerns in the increasingly conservative GOP. For example, could conservatives support immigration reform, in part, to attract minority voters to the rest of the GOP platform?

 

[Mustang]

Aren't "minority voters" concerns everyone's concerns? Why does the left always judge people by the color of their skins?

...said WHITEhall

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Addressing minority concerns basically means playing identity politics. You have opinions because you are Korean, Abyssinian, French or Micronesian. Republican orthodoxy is that there is only American and won't go there.

There is no way we can do this without giving up what makes for Republican identity.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oh Dear, this does not bode well for Republican's taking the Kennedy seat or governorship in NJ, VA or our chances in 2010.

Oh Dear.

Laugh all you want. The demographic trend is solid. Either the GOP adapts to the changing demographics or it risks becoming a regional party with limited chances at winning national elections.

Personally, I question whether or not conservatives are prepared to make room for minority concerns in the increasingly conservative GOP. For example, could conservatives support immigration reform, in part, to attract minority voters to the rest of the GOP platform?

Pay closer attention to current events, you ran out of other people money to buy votes.

 

[Oddball]

Here we go again...Liberoidals telling the people they're supposed to want to beat in elections telling them how to win.

Sheeeeeeeesh!

 

[Samson]

Aren't "minority voters" concerns everyone's concerns? Why does the left always judge people by the color of their skins?

...said WHITEhall

Whilst impressed with the sharpness of your rapier wit, I wonder if you can answer the question?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I agree with the OP, I think the right will do better in 2012 than it did in 2010

 

[Samson]

I agree with the OP, I think the right will do better in 2012 than it did in 2010

Indeed.

But all the benefits of ObamaCare will probably become apparent soon, as CBS, NBC, NYT, and ABC begin tracking down whoever has benefitted. I expect a SERIES of Important Human Interest Pieces about the subject to run over MONTHS of broadcasting...

Unless he manages to sign any more legislation during his term...a doubtful proposition, since he cannot seem to lead anything less than a congress with a SuperMajority.

 

[code1211]

Oh Dear, this does not bode well for Republican's taking the Kennedy seat or governorship in NJ, VA or our chances in 2010.

Oh Dear.

Laugh all you want. The demographic trend is solid. Either the GOP adapts to the changing demographics or it risks becoming a regional party with limited chances at winning national elections.

Personally, I question whether or not conservatives are prepared to make room for minority concerns in the increasingly conservative GOP. For example, could conservatives support immigration reform, in part, to attract minority voters to the rest of the GOP platform?

What happens to your pardigm if the minorities you describe start voting as citizens instead of bricks in voting blocks?

Conservatives like to treat people as if they were people while liberals like to treat people only as demographics.

When a baby in born, one must wonder if the mother sees the newborn as a demographic or as a person.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The GOP definitily needs to attract minority voters by addressing some of their concerns.

Pointless – it will undermine their raison d'être.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The GOP definitily needs to attract minority voters by addressing some of their concerns.

Pointless – it will undermine their raison d'être.

“I’ll have them ******* voting Democrat for the next two hundred years.” -- LBJ

You were saying?

 

[bripat9643]

The GOP definitily needs to attract minority voters by addressing some of their concerns.

What "concerns" are those, more welfare for illegals? Unlimited immigration? Amnesty?

 

[grunt11b]

First a few facts.

In 1980, white voters cast 88% of the total presidential vote. By 2008, that percentage had fallen to 74%.

In 2000, Bush won 55% of the white vote, and even though he won the election, he lost the popular vote by 540,000.

In 2008, McCain ALSO won 55% of the white vote, but he lost the election by 7 points.

And finally, the proportion of overall votes cast by white voters is expected to decline even more in 2012.

So...

The GOP definitily needs to attract minority voters by addressing some of their concerns.

But what's happening? Conservatives are actually driving AWAY minority voters with, among other things, their hostile rhetoric regarding immigration reform and their racially charged broadsides directed at President Obama, his wife, Michelle, and other high-profile African-Americans.

Can you name one thing a white conservative politician said that has been hateful toward Obama, his wife or any other high profile "Black" American? No you cant, and dont start on immigration reform, Obama has the white house and had the senate and congress from 2008 until 2010 and ignore immigration reform, so that's the lefts failure, not the rights.

Hey, you conservatives can (and probably will) do whatever you please. But circling your wagons and projecting a hostile attitude toward minorities is going to marginalize the GOP in a few elections cycles.

We WILL do what we want, and it won't involve catering to entitlement programs that are sinking this economy or allowing people into this country illegally. You can definitely bet your ass on that one. Do you know why? Because if someone is illegal, they cannot vote anyways so who cares what they think, and as far as other minorities in this country, if they are not on the side of liberty and justice and support the constitution and favor earning a living instead of having one given to them, we dont want their fucken vote anyways.

Better wake up!

Oh, rest assured, we are, notice that thing Obama helped create in America in 2008 called the Tea Party? We are very awake, and we vote.

 

[grunt11b]

Aren't "minority voters" concerns everyone's concerns? Why does the left always judge people by the color of their skins?

Because they are racists. For all the finger pointing of race that they do, they are always the ones doing and saying racist things.

 

[grunt11b]

Oh Dear, this does not bode well for Republican's taking the Kennedy seat or governorship in NJ, VA or our chances in 2010.

Oh Dear.

Laugh all you want. The demographic trend is solid. Either the GOP adapts to the changing demographics or it risks becoming a regional party with limited chances at winning national elections.

We dont need to adapt to suite any minorities, we will adapt back to the constitution and how this country was meant to be ran, and if that doesn't help us on the national level, then we will secede from the union and run our states locally until the federal government is choked out of funds.

Personally, I question whether or not conservatives are prepared to make room for minority concerns in the increasingly conservative GOP. For example, could conservatives support immigration reform, in part, to attract minority voters to the rest of the GOP platform?

Conservatives do support immigration reform already, it's just not the free pass system liberals think should be in place. We will not hand over the sovereignty of this country to appease anybody, sorry for your luck.
Like I said, if this was such a huge concern for the left why did the Democrats refuse to mess with it from 2008-2010 when they had a super majority and could have passed anything they wanted?

 

[grunt11b]

Aren't "minority voters" concerns everyone's concerns? Why does the left always judge people by the color of their skins?

...said WHITEhall

I guess Reggie White is a racist too according to your standards of names right?