Posted on 11/13/2012 11:55:33 AM PST by pabianice
After a week of election postmortems, one thing is clear: Mitt Romney’s failure to understand America’s changing demographics led to his undoing. But there was another killer: Geography. Deep blue cities and their inner suburbs came out for Barack Obama, pulling the president through in battleground states like Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. And they put him so far ahead in places like Wisconsin, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that Romney never really had a chance (not to mention his home base of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which went 78 percent for the president).
Of course, this isn't a new phenomenon. In 2008, Obama took cities even more convincingly, allowing him to win North Carolina and Indiana as well. But America is only growing more urban, with cities that had been losing population since the 1960s finally starting to swell again. Eventually, fast-growing blue cities like San Antonio, Houston, and Austin could bring even the GOP stronghold of Texas within the Democrats' reach. In the long term, the stakes are high: Republicans could be relegated to permanent minority party status.
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
I think we’re probably at the point where “he that is filthy; let him be filthy still (in peace)”. - Vote “present” and let the DEMOCRATS and OBAMA own the coming mess. - Any resistance will just be demogagued to death as “obstructionism” by Hairy Reed and the rest of them. Any “bipartisanship” will only result in the coming mess being wholly blamed on those horrible,evil, RICH REPUBLICANS. - No. No more. I’m sick of it. - Vote “present” and let ‘er rip. - AND do not allow the Democrats to demagogue you by calling voting “present” obstructionist. They’re in the “cat seat”; and being nasty and smug about it; and CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT!
OK, so we won’t “ignore” them,
but can we still DESPISE them?
Bears repeating.
A truth that is becoming ever more so as time marches on. This is a very different country from what we grew up in.
The article is dead right. I don’t know if most of the commenters actually read it, but he describes how the Tea Party agenda could work in urban areas. He’s right, if there’s a future for the GOP, making big cities at least competitive has to be part of it. We can’t win with the Democrats stacking up vote margins based on winning 100% of the vote in 57 different densely-populated wards in Philadelphia. Great cities are the product of free market capitalism, not big government. Even now, go to any city in the U.S., and first visit the “civic center area” and then go to the “financial district”. The contrast is as plain as day.
Yes, becoming relevant in the cities may mean adopting a sort of “truce” on social issues. I think the easy answer is that the federal government should not be involved in social issues; those have traditionally been the purview of state and local governments. If Mississippi doesn’t want abortion and gay marriage, but California, or even theoretically New Orleans, does, then so be it. We need to establish a set of principles based on the actual design of our Constitutional system that allows different kinds of people to live in different kinds of ways, depending on their locality.
The route to victory is paved with dead bodies in fact ~ the Democrats have a marginally higher death rate than Republicans AND the ethnotypes that make up the greater body of Republicans have a much lower abortion rate than the ethnotypes who gravitate to the Democrat's black banner.
The Democrats reached their high water mark in 2008. The Republicans have yet to reach a high water mark ~ the McCain/Romney events demonstrate the error in not catering to the party's Conservative base. Those folks are ready, willing and able to bring millions of new Republican voters to the fore ~ but there's gotta' be somebody there who they'll think is worth having as a candidate.
Let me predict that within the next decade Republican gains will so far outpace Democrat losses in voting strength that folks will wonder just exactly who the Democrats were and what they stood for.
Except that the children cannot vote, and the palms-up crowd votes, multiple times. I agree that a “bidding war” is not the way to go, but it is not the same as the candy example, IMHO.
If one more queer says conservatives need to move to the Left to win elections, I am going to scream and scratch their eyes out!
Fixed it.
Good God people.. the GOP needs to be flushed..
Somebody please flush that thing.. it stinks..
just thinking, why not take a page form the democratic playbook. Since most swing states don’t have voter id laws,
why not have have consevatives from solid RED states “Move” to blue states, get an address from another conservative to use as a mailing address. Have bills sent to that address to be used on same day registration. In Cincinnati Ohio all you need to register is a bill with your name on it.
This only works if you’re from a solid Red state and by not voting in your home state it would still remain Red.
This is one way to fight fraud.
Amazing what can be accomplished when you totally disregard all rules of conduct and decorum, isn’t it?
A friend just returned from one of the listed cities. I asked if he cared enough to leave small pox infested blankets there. He laughed and said I guess not.
Look at those pathetic cities and add to them Miami, Atlanta, NYC, and a few others. Explain to me what we get from them as far as the nation’s community goes? Answer, not much but many headaches.
Tactical decision. I’m not saying to vote in both states.
I believe in one vote per person. I just prefer to vote in the state I work in as opposed to the state I live in.
I live in Kentucky but work across the river in Ohio.
Cincinnati payroll taxes are taken from me and I see no benefits from it.
I do think we are in dire need of voter id laws on a national basis.
I would recommend endless, demoralizing, ads to suppress vote in that area along the lines of “Democrats have ruined the black family and re-enslaved them.”
I would recommend endless, demoralizing, ads to suppress vote in that area along the lines of “Democrats have ruined the black family and re-enslaved them.”
Without neutering the Rancid Media, Rs will continue to lose. The Press gave Obama an additional 6%.
This article could have been written 47 years ago, when it would have urged John Vliet Lindsay as the solution for GOP woes!
Are you saying he ended up with only 6% advantage this year?
That is actually a serious record shattering drop!
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