Becuase the RNC lost 10 % of there base in key elections in KY, IND, Ohio, Penn, Western NY, and Conn . The Blue Collar Repub DID NOT VOTE at all ! Its too bad you missed him on the Laura Ingram show , he really very insightful . He said any time Bush talked about the amnesty bill , the RNC lost thousand of votes in Blue Collar voters demo ! No wonder Charle Crist ducked Bush the day before the election.
Well they cut their nose to spite their face. I guess they didn't see Bush sign the 700 mile fence bill, that the democrats will now scrap.
"The Blue Collar Repub DID NOT VOTE at all !"
Below was a posting that I wrote last week when responding to another Freeper. Good analysis of the vote by you, did you see that the GOP lost 8% of the white male vote?
The Northern Pacific States have Microsoft, Boeing and tourism. The same goes for California. Texas has energy, tourism and shipping. Nevada has gambling. Florida has tourism and great weather; Chicago, the epicenter of finance and marketing. The Eastern seaboard has shipping, fishing, government, tourism … etc.
What does the Midwest have? Good weather year round, hell no! Pretty girls skating down the boardwalk on a beautiful February afternoon, Hell no! Movie industry jobs, nope! How about agriculture? That too has been erased.
The problem is that the Midwest made things, but because of globalization those skills are no longer needed. Hence the powers that be are trying to substitute with the insurance, medical and bio-tech fields. Those noble professions still are not providing the stimulus to grow the regions economy. So what does an underemployed populace do? They go to the ballot box and vote themselves a raise. I am in absolute disagreement of this, but it is in effect what is happening. Ohio, PA, IN, IL and New York will become more blue because of the afore mentioned.
Reagan figured this out and by him spending heavily on defense; a lot of those dollars were spent in the Midwest, which garnered him a win in 84. The rest as they say is history.
Remember, all politics are local and people vote their pocketbook.
The recovery that most this nation has experienced has not come to the Midwest and actually has come at the expense of this regions economy. Regretfully, the GOP has over estimated the Midwest Social Conservatives loyalty to the GOP. It may result in the Presidents impeachment, time will tell