The Democrats did a blow out effort in 2008 and got all the leftwingtards and black people who wanted to vote registered and out and that was 69 million. They had 4 million die leaving 65 million, but they got 66 million votes in 2012. That means they only found 1/2 million more voters from 2008 to 2012!
We found 5 million and they got 1/10 that number.
5 million more than we have plus 4 million to make up for the dead against the Democrats with their 62 million and no growth (but they still have the boomer deaths to deal with themselves) and we skunk them for the rest of the century!
BTW, we only needed 100,000 voters in the right states to win in 2012 ~ and we'd had Virginia in a walk but Romney demonstrated to us he didn't respect us at all. Margins here can be very narrow ~ he dismissed that ~ after all he had a lot of big money donors in Virginia.
BTW, none of us know any of those big money donors!
I have stared at the numbers from 2012 from various different directions, and have come to the conclusion that no route leads to the WH without grabbing a sizable influx of the younger crowd.
Turnout just isn’t going to get it done in 16. It might gain seats in both houses in 14, but even that sets up a pendulum swing in 16 from blowback...
And while Rand isn’t my favorite, he is the only candidate that ‘might’ be able to leverage some youth vote. Cruz will swing the youth vote farther left!
Cruz is seen as an ‘old-school’ conservative by anyone over 45, and that just doesn’t sell the story to any of the voters that went to Obama in 08 or 12. Rand ‘might’ be able to get voters that went Democrat last time... Cruz will only get the same crowd that came up short last time.
And while Rand won’t inspire the Evangelical crowd, I doubt he would inspire them to let Hillary win by default!
The ticket has to find a way to GAIN more voters, and stop trying to preach to the choir...
‘True Conservatives’ make up over half the party, but the party makes up less than half of the voter base... so ‘True Conservatives’ can’t deliver national elections by themselves.