The GOP needs to win over black and Hispanic votes. Simple as that. No need to compromise principles, no need to sell out, but you cannot win elections when a significant percentage of the electorate goes 90-95% to the other party. The GOP needs a big tent to survive, NOT ideologically but definitely ethnically/religiously. There needs to be a great push to sell conservative values to minority voters.
I was following the marriage debate in Hawaii, thousands of people of all ethnic backgrouds and religious denominations came out and gave it their all. Almost stopped this in the single most liberal state in the union. Why has the national GOP ignored this? Blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, Mormons, Christians of every type, atheists, all united for a cause and nobody took advantage of that.
I hope Obama reelection and Virginia are wake up calls. Otherwise 10 years from now the Southwest will start trending purple and the GOP will be shut out of national politics.
Only Conservative Blacks and Hispanics...They're out there, but the GOP pretends they don't exist.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the GOPe to do this. Just this week, the GOPe leadership open declared war against the TEA Party, and by association Conservative values. So what is one to do?
Then someone brought up the subject of cutting back on what is spent on EBT cards and then the room emptied.