“I was responding to your political fantasy about a GOP presidential candidate getting 65% of the white vote.”
Republican candidates got 75% to 89% of the WHITE VOTE from Alabama to New Mexico in 2014 - that’s why they won by the margins they did. I’ll concede that it was an off-year election, but asking for 65% nationally is not unreasonable, given the how far left the Dems now are.
But they will have to run a candidate that will FIGHT FOR THE WHITE VOTE - they will not get it by running Harold Stassen or whoever you’re pushing.
Republicans have been getting 70%-90% of the white vote in most of the southeastern states since Nixon's landslide in 1972.
I haven't seen 2014 data on New Mexico, but Romney got just 56% of the white vote there in 2012.
Maybe Susana Martinez, the Mexican-American Republican governor, got 75% of the white vote in New Mexico in 2014?
Are you aware that 61% of Hispanics voted AGAINST Martinez in 2010?
Most important - the impressive surplus of white votes in the S.E. is offset by much more liberal white voting in other states.
White voters in Washington state, Oregon, Iowa, and most of the N.E. states gave Obama a majority vote.
In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan, the white vote was very close to 50-50.
Bottom Line - if a majority of white voters in the Pacific northwest, the Midwest, and the N.E. really want a Conservative president, why don't they vote like the white voters in Texas and the Old South?