[SamAdams76]

You make some good points and I have always favored changing from a "winner take all" to "assignment by congressional district" system - as Maine and Nebraska are already doing. With the current system, our large cities like Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia are flipping their states to the Democrat candidate even though the Republican candidate usually wins the rest of the state.

Getting it changed however will be a very difficult, if not impossible task.

With regard to the "inevitability" of Texas flipping to a blue state due to demographic shift, we do not need to stand around and just let it happen. We need not concede that the Hispanic voters will always vote Democrat. I believe that many Hispanics who think they are Democrats can be converted to Republican. To wit, Gov. Martinez of New Mexico.

BTW, this applies to all demographic groups. Just because they vote one way today does not mean it needs to always be that way.

[Road Glide]

“We need not concede that the Hispanic voters will always vote Democrat. I believe that many Hispanics who think they are Democrats can be converted to Republican. To wit, Gov. Martinez of New Mexico.”

They voted for Martinez because of her name. New Mexico is the second “Euro minority” state (after California). The legislature is democratic, and will probably remain so. Again, Martinez won because she got Republican votes from Euros who were voting for her because of her policies, and from Hispanics (mostly democrats), who voted for her because of her name and because of her ethnic heritage. Just as Obama won 96% or so of the black vote. If Ms. Martinez’ name had been Jones, she might well have lost

When do you believe that blacks will stop voting “by race/ethnicity”?
Obama will get at least 90% of the black vote again this time, perhaps even more.

To believe that the time will soon come when Hispanics will begin voting AS A MAJORITY (emphasis intentional) for conservatism — well, that’s wishful thinking.

Hispanics are now approaching majority status in California. How are THEY voting?

What the Republican party needs to do is win larger majorities of “the Euro vote”. 55% is not enough to keep winning the presidency in the face of changing demographics.

So long as we embrace the notion that “if we only educate folks properly, people will vote conservative no matter what ethnicity or religion they are”, we will witness our influence dissolve into the multicolored and multicultural sludge of the “Rainbow Nation”. This is egalitarian nonsense.

Sorry if I sound cynical about this, but I harbor no illusions about the future.