When the 2016 Election Arrives, The GOP will enter having won the popular vote once in 28 years.

Vanity | 11-7-2012 | TitansAFC

[TitansAFC]

Just a point in fact for the GOP at large:

When Election Day 2016 rolls around, the GOP will enter the night having convinced more Americans to vote for their candidate than for the Democrat candidate exactly one time in 28 years.

Thats ONCE in TWENTY-EIGHT years. Just damn.

[Alberta's Child]

What difference does that mean? We could look at this the other way around: The Democrats will go into the 2016 election having won more than 50% of the popular vote only twice in 40 years.

[TitansAFC]

If you don’t see the significance of it, you would fit in well with the current GOP leadership.

[Tublecane]

Okay, so Puns only won two of six, and one of those times the popular and electoral votes split. But why cut it off at that particular point, other than that it makes it look as bad as possible? Everyone knows Clinton and Obama won twice and Gore won the popular vote 00. I don’t see any illuminating in the way you put it.

[tallyhoe]

The republican party will not win the Presidency again ever it is done over finished...... They will have a hard time winning any marginal states like Florida or Ohio Iowa again.. Look we the republican party had both houses the governors in all the swing states and they couldn’t pull it off!!

[Alberta's Child]

I find it completely meaningless when you consider how many of those elections had credible third-party candidates who attracted a tangible portion of the popular vote.

Just go back and look at some of the "landslide" elections we've had in the last 50 years and see how close those popular votes were. Ronald Reagan wiped the floor with Jimmy Carter in 1980 but only won 50.8% of the popular vote, for example.

[TitansAFC]

There is a good point.

The GOP has added so many issues to their list of “polarizing issues” that all that remains in use is Economic Issues, Taxes, National Defense, and Foreign Policy.

These issues are not the issues that motivate new voters to come to your party. They just don’t.

[cherry]

a majority....a large majority...voted against the toon....

[mykroar]

Agreed.

[cherry]

people DO NOT CARE ABOUT BENGAZI....they don't care about the military guys either....

its not an issue...

we've entered the post WW2 malaise where duty, patriotism,law,righteousness,chivalry DO NOT MEAN A DAMN THING.....

the voters and the fraudsters have told us so...

[cherry]

have to include all the military getting their pensions....don’t discount that they are on the govt teat as well....

[Venturer]

There are no two parties.

There are the Democrats and the RINO’s.The rest of us are well on our way to dissappearing.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But the Left will rule because demography is favoring them in the long run.

Only because the GOP can't manage to win over Latino voters, most of whom are social conservatives and a natural fit for a conservative party. The GOP has gotten nowhere with ending illegal immigration - Obama's destruction of the US economy has done more to curb illegal immigration than anything any GOP president or legislator has ever accomplished. At the same time, even though the GOP has accomplished nothing in the battle against illegal immigration, it is still regarded as a hostile threat by Latino voters, who have become a huge new voting bloc for the Democrats, turning former Reagan-country states like California and Nevada into Democrat strongholds.

The GOP is losing on both ends of the illegal immigration issue, and stands to become a permanent minority party as a result.

[GregoTX]

" We'll have another election in 2016. It will just be more obviously a Venezuelan-style election that we won't get all excited about it."

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. --Joseph Stalin

[Gator113]

You might want to come up with a Plan B, because the GOP is dead.

I have personally cast my last vote and I am not convinced that there will even be an election in 2016.

[nolongerademocrat]

I agree. This country is done.

[college_kid]

Here’s more “food for thought.” Recognizing that the final tallies aren’t done yet, Obama is currently 9 million votes under his tally from 08...6 hours ago, I would’ve said that’s a very good sign. What I don’t understand is, if the GOP turnout machine was really so good, and voter intensity for the GOP was so high, how the heck can Romney have 3 million LESS votes than McCain’s total from 08???

[Lou Budvis]

Thank you for your common sense. The New Deal and Great Depression was much worse. Hell, tax rates were higher under Ike than under 0bama.

[nolongerademocrat]

I don’t know. I do know that G-d’s judgment is about to fall on this country HARD.

[af_vet_rr]

Thank you for your common sense. The New Deal and Great Depression was much worse. Hell, tax rates were higher under Ike than under 0bama.

I happen to believe this country is much stronger than some here give it credit for and I'm glad you believe that as well.

If this country does not survive the coming years, it's only because of the complacency of Republicans in Congress.

[Nebr FAL owner]

In the next 4 years we will be Greece . If you think that will lead to elections (honest or otherwise ) I would like to sell you some Florida swamp land real cheap.