Posted on 05/02/2008 11:04:35 AM PDT by The_Republican
Discussions of the current political situation and comparisons between the 2008 election and earlier contests frequently overlook a crucial fact. As a result of changes in American society, today's electorate is very different from the electorate of twenty, thirty, or forty years ago. Three long-term trends have been especially significant in this regard: increasing racial diversity, declining rates of marriage, and changes in religious beliefs. As a result of these trends, today's voters are less likely to be white, less likely to be married, and less likely to consider themselves Christians than voters of just a few decades ago.
The combined impact of these trends on the composition of the electorate has been dramatic. Married white Christians now make up less than half of all voters in the United States and less than one fifth of voters under the age of 30. The declining proportion of married white Christians in the electorate has important political implications because in recent years married white Christians have been among the most loyal supporters of the Republican Party. In American politics today, whether you are a married white Christian is a much stronger predictor of your political preferences than your gender or your class -- the two demographic characteristics that dominate much of the debate on contemporary American politics.
Figure 1 displays the trends in the proportions of whites, married persons, and Christian identifiers in the U.S. electorate over the past half century according to data from the American National Election Studies.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
This ignores the fact that mostly conservative white Republicans are having children while liberals are not.
A party for both less government and less government spending. We cannot borrow our way to prosperity.
I completely agree the country has gone far too left and unless we allow one of their “demons” to be in charge, they will NEVER see the evil these “people” truly represent.
We can recover from 4 years of hill (if she even lasts that long. That woman can’t obey nor uphold ANY law).
2012 will be the YEAR CONSERVATIVES CAME BACK.
That’s right, I said came back. Look how many people on FR are too afraid of hill that they are willing to sell their souls (actually, they say “hold their nose”)because they vote from fear.
Nope! =)
This is just the most recent attempt by the GOP to use propaganda to convince conservatives that they must vote for McAmnesty.
As for me, my principles are still intact and I intend to honor them by writing in the name of a conservative for President and doing my best to see that actual conservatives are elected in downstream races.
Yeah, winning is overrated. Suicidal Principles is where the Truth at!!! Go write-in candidate!!!
The Rockefeller/Danforth/Snowe/McCain/Martinez/Whitman pubbies must be celebrating.
“Discussions of the current political situation and comparisons between the 2008 election and earlier contests frequently overlook a crucial fact. As a result of changes in American society, today’s electorate is very different from the electorate of twenty, thirty, or forty years ago”
I didn’t “overlook” these facts, in some previous postings to FR.
A sample:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1952509/posts?page=33#33
- John
Good thinin Babba Louis!
And the sooner the better. Kill the sick corrupt elephant now. It’s too far gone to save it.
I was hoping Dr. Dobson was going to do it a few months ago but he pulled back ... or chickened out. He could have done it. Twenty million chiristians would drop the GOP like a hot potato if Dobson formed a strong coalition and put up some real conservative candidates instead of silly old fools like McQueeg.
The pubby party is a laughing stock and a disgrace. I won’t even bother to vote for prez this year. No point. I actually think McQueeg is a stealth Rat anyway. Everybody thinks he’ll appoint good judges. Why? Anybody who wants to open our borders up to the Mexican invasion and close Gitmo and rape free speech as MCCain Feingold did ....will put Rat judges on the bench as well.
“But he’ll do the right thing by our military and keep up our national defense.”
Oh really? Maybe he will but its a crapshoot. The senile old bat could do anything at any time. He is not competent to be POTUS.
Preach it, brother!
Clearly, YOU don’t get it. With A Republican, you get 65% of what you want. With socialists/commies like HRC or BHO, you get closer to 0. Which part of that is unclear? From another SoConRepublican
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