Nonsense. Evangelical support for McCain/Palin was half-hearted at best, and no wonder as the Pro-Life movement remained unrepresented. FiCons rightfully deserted him. When 7m fewer voted for McCain than voted for Bush04, that he lost is no surprise at all, and it was precisely the white Christians rejecting him that drove him into the ground like a tent peg.
All this election proves (once again, sommore, even yet) is that Republicans don't win by playing the middle, and when the Right ain't happy, ain't nobody gonna be happy.
Next time, try a Reaganite and see what happens.
I agree that the GOP should at least try running a right winger but never in history has a candidate lost when he got 57% of the white vote.
Examine national and state elections. Very few places exist where 57% of the white vote loses an election.
The hump is now higher...much higher.
Whites will have to vote now more like they do in Utah or Mississippi or super high turnout like you wish,
and I doubt a more right wing candidate will pull more latinos or blacks but it could pull more whites, I firmly believe more folks voted for Palin than Mac
Mccain kissed their asses and for what? so 80% of them would vote against him for a black man?
sorry you may wish my post was nonsense but unless voting trends turn on it’s head it’s a new ballgame
demographics when Reagan ran are much different....voting Hispanics have almost tripled and they vote Dem with a few exceptions
you got me thinking roamer,
have you looked at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 rounded off turnouts side by side
GOP Dem
2000 50,500,000 50,999,000
2004 62,000,000 59,000,000
2008 60,000,000 69,000,000
I don’t see the tunrout argument as very valid even though I thought so too myself a bit in the lead up
The Dems got 10,000,000 more votes and the GOP dropped 2 million compared to 4 years ago.
White vote was still around 58% in 2004 too. Looks like Dems just turned out much more...especially minorites.
I think a more conservative candidate can help but we are going to have to peel off some latinos which I think is a tall order or get more whites to vote right.
Blacks are a lost cause and Jews don’t matter except in south Florida....and they have been a lost cause too past 7 elections
Orientals ...maybe they are reachable....Japanese are the only ones vote GOP...no surprise there...they get culture
since you think my posts are nonsense please prove your point
respectfully