romney won the independent vote by a substantial margin and lost base votes. Rush is correct in some of his critique and so are you... but romney lost base votes. He almost lost mine but Jim Robinson convinced me to vote to defeat obama and I did. There are those here on FR that will confirm that they didn’t vote for romney and either went third party or just didn’t vote. If the gop/e do not change... it will be 20% or more of the base that will not show in 2016. It may even be much more of the base turning their backs on the elite. They may even come in a distant third place. I am not promoting this... I am just making an observation. Look to England and see what is going on there.
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During that period a good 4 million Republican voters died. Somebody forgot to replace them!
You are ignoring the massive demographic changes going on in this country. The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.
In VA we made an all out effort to get out the vote. Romney received 100,000 more votes than McCain compared to Obama receiving just 12,000 more votes than he received in 2008. It was still not enough due to the changing demographics of the state. In Fairfax County, the largest county in the state, 30% of the residents are now foreign born. Obama won the county by 110,000 in 2008 and by 90,000 in 2012. We had a massive get out the vote effort. It still fell short. VA is now a purple state having gone Dem over the past two Presidential elections after 40 years of voting Rep.
Since the 1965 Immigration Act, our pro-population growth immigration policies have fueled major demographic changes in a very short period of time. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites comprised 89 percent of the population; today they are 66 percent; and by 2042, they will be 50 percent. The Democrats, under the banner of multiculturalism and diversity, have forged a political coalition that depends on individuals coalescing around racial and ethnic identities rather than the issues. The continuing and increasing flow of minority immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated, provides a natural constituency for the Democrats, which see them as their principal source of political power.
Look to England and see what is going on there.
We are in worse shape than the UK. And at least in the UK, the three major parties have agreed to reduce immigration levels. Here, we have the Dems aided by some Reps pushing increasing legal immigration by 50% and an amnesty that will legalize 11 or 20 million lawbreakers and invite in another 33 million of their relatives thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification(Gang of 8 bill). And yet some of our conservative talking heads in the media call Rubio a rock-ribbed conservative.
Here is one of the most chilling videos you will ever see as Eliseo Medina, Executive Director of the SEIU, describes in 2009 what an amnesty will do for the progressives. The GOP is bent on political suicide and they will take the rest of the country down with them.