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The GOP’s electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It’s about demographics.
Washington Post ^ | May 8, 2016 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 05/08/2016 5:28:25 PM PDT by Innovative

Republicans have a major electoral-map problem in November. Major.

Donald Trump’s victory last week in Indiana’s primary not only effectively sealed the GOP nomination for the real estate billionaire but also brought into sharp relief how difficult it will be for any Republican to get to 270 electoral votes and beat Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president this fall.

Start here: Eighteen states plus the District of Columbia have voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in every election between 1992 and 2012. Add them up, and you get 242 electoral votes.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: Innovative

It is not about Demographics. It is about values. It is about the idea of America, which the Democrat party loathes. It is about freedom, which the Democrat party fears, because to them it is about power, and keeping control, through the bureaucracy, via a dependency. The Education system tells our kids to love big brother. We have to counter that every day. So far I have had moderate success, my biggest challenge is the Global Warming nonsense, which my son’s science teacher preaches is all man made, and which I tell him is cyclical in the 4.5 billion year history of Earth. The Democrats are the enemy (most of them anyway) and it s their philosophy, unchallenged, because of the likes of Ryan, Romney,and all of these #nevertrumps, and RINOs, who by their silence go along, and that is the real problem, because they are about power too. What is needed is a bringing of the ‘new’ Americans into the real America, Not one of by and for the Bureaucrats. But of by and for the People, and eliminate bureaucrat jobs, make them earn an honest wage in private industry...


21 posted on 05/08/2016 6:06:09 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Parley Baer

Quote:

“And with all the illegals coming in the demographics will continue to change in the dimoKKKRATS favor. This may well be out last chance to do something about it.”

Population replacement works.


22 posted on 05/08/2016 6:07:19 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Innovative

This thinking presumes that blacks and legal immigrants are going to love higher crime and taxes and lower wages. And that the truth of the Gospel won’t reach them.

Demographic populations change socially, and the overreach of Team Hussein is not being calculated here.

Neither is Hitlery’s MASSIVE unpopularity.


23 posted on 05/08/2016 6:21:30 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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To: Biggirl

Obama was on the ticket in ‘08 and ‘12 so Blacks turned out to vote for him. He wasn’t on the ballot in ‘10 and ‘14 so Blacks stayed home.


24 posted on 05/08/2016 6:21:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Fast Ed97

Some mexicans are pro life, ALL (illegal) mexicans are pro FREESTUFF.


25 posted on 05/08/2016 6:22:54 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: BigEdLB
It is not about Demographics. It is about values.


26 posted on 05/08/2016 6:27:38 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: LongWayHome

Read the other day that 2,000 felons have already registered to vote in VA.

To my late friend, Tom....”It just keeps gettin’ better.”


27 posted on 05/08/2016 6:29:24 PM PDT by Roccus (Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
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To: Innovative; All

The Democrats have constantly been pushing the idea that Identity politics mean everything. Ideas mean nothing.

Who you are borne determines how you will vote.

It is bullsh*t. Ideas do matter.

They push this idea over and over and over. It is why they keep importing new voters. It can be overcome, but it is meant to convince themselves and us that it cannot be overcome.


28 posted on 05/08/2016 6:30:30 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Innovative

I talked to a lib I knew for a long time tonight, he said he is voting for Trump. I was like WHAT? *Double take* What?? He said something that explains the success of Trump a lot: “He says what we think but never get a chance to say because we are not politicians”...He was talking about the corruption in Washington, but there you go...He’s right, Trump is connecting on both sides of the fence, he speaks the voice of the people. Think about it, the Clinton criminal cabal, no politician ever talks about that but here was Trump yesterday talking about Bill being a serial sex offender and Hitlery acting as his enabler. I mean holy cow! How many times have we talked about that yet never heard it from the likes of the Bush Monarchy, or McCain or Romney? Libs KNOW the government is corrupt. We may disagree on a lot of things but they know this government is made up of punks and to hear Trump expose it is getting them on his side. He is going to utterly obliterate Hitlery!


29 posted on 05/08/2016 6:43:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Tzimisce

“And conservatives sat on asses and let them.”
No, RINO’s did.


30 posted on 05/08/2016 6:44:10 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: Innovative
You're absolutely right.

I believe Obama won Pa with just two loaded districts....Philly being one of them.

31 posted on 05/08/2016 6:45:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Innovative

“Trump isn’t to blame for any of that. But his remarkably high disapproval numbers among Hispanics and his hard-line stance on illegal immigration — we are going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it! — could make what is already a huge demographic or electoral-map problem for Republicans even worse.”

If Trump has to be pro-amnesty to win, then there’s no point voting for a democrat-lite. With amnesty by either party, the country is ruined.


32 posted on 05/08/2016 6:47:24 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: Utmost Certainty

“I think Hispanics voted 40% for GWB at one point didn’t they?”

W was pro-amnesty. The traitor. If it wasn’t for heroes in the House, Tancredo and Hunter, he would’ve got it too.


33 posted on 05/08/2016 6:49:44 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: BigEdLB

You are correct. But It can be reduced to the Truth (God). Truth will set us Free-—and only Truth. Individual Natural Rights only come from God, never the State. We now allow the State to destroy our Individual Natural Rights, ban God, and promote immorality/vice in our so-called “justice” (virtue) system, which is unconstitutional. All unjust (evil) law is “null and void”.

As Cicero stated, corrupt (evil) laws will collapse civil society. All just laws have to promote “public virtue” and ours embed an “evil” version of “justice” in our children (values of Satan).

The schools lie and promote satanism, Darwinism/atheism, Mother-Earth worship (religions/faiths other than the Founding Worldview and Founding religion (Christian Worldview)).

The schools/MSM tie emotions to concepts (sodomy is “good”) so that children will REJECT the Truth, because the lie is repeated over and over through sitcoms and curricula (Daddy has a Roommate). It is called brainwashing and destroying the ability to be critical thinkers.

Classical Christian Education was removed by the Humanist/atheist John Dewey so he could literally destroy the Minds of the masses and erase the Chrisitan Worldview (which created the Minds of Newton and Tesla and the Age of Reason/US Constitution/Justice Sytem). The Socratic Method and Aristotelian Logic was ejected for PC Mind Control-—brainwashing-—programming ideas. (They use emotions/herd instincts/peer pressure to force an irrational worldview).

The dumbed-down students are nearly illiterate if not down right illiterate and that is intentional. (Literacy rates were 93% in 1900. Now it is in the low 40s. ) Knowledge is Power and our children have no understanding of the philosophy of the Founders/Locke/Adam Smith-—they have only the ability to think in a very superficial emotional/Soundbite way.....they are programed to “feel” and are totally ignorant on Christian Theology which Newton wrote more on than Science. Philosophy is non-existent.

So-—Education is Key. We have to take back our public school system and give education BACK to the parents, and the Natural Family, like in Ben Franklin and Lincoln’s Days, when individualism and Virtue was essential and normal, and “group think” (irrationality/socialism) was laughed at and ridiculed. The ability to think outside the Marxist box (slavery/group-think) was normal for 70% of the people after the Constitution was signed.


34 posted on 05/08/2016 6:55:47 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: qam1

So true...you can never get through to these people. They refuse to understand that this massive LEGAL immigration is killing conservatism. You don’t stop that, you have no country.


35 posted on 05/08/2016 7:01:41 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: qam1

Exactly


36 posted on 05/08/2016 7:08:18 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: LongWayHome

VA is gone.


37 posted on 05/08/2016 7:09:58 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

In a landslide election demographics don’t matter.


38 posted on 05/08/2016 7:11:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: BigEdLB
It is about 35 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS SINCE 1990. The 1965 Immigration Act changed the demographics of this country forever. We are being colonized by the Third World. Demography is destiny.


39 posted on 05/08/2016 7:15:51 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Innovative

Trump will win NY, NJ, PA, CT , MI, OH & FL, with a good shot at CA.
Not sure what ya’ll are smokin’,
but poner el crackpipe abajo!

45+ states my friends ... 45+ states.
It’s gonna be glorious!


40 posted on 05/08/2016 7:17:33 PM PDT by Macoozie ("Estoy votando por Ted 2016!" bumper stickers available)
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