So, there’s no hope for the GOP?
The author assumes that the GOP will never win enough minorities to compete in upcoming elections?
Young voters, minorities, women, all favoring Dems? And the trend is locked in and completely irreversible?
Why should any conservatives even care then?
Our destiny is already set apparently.
Young voters get older and pay taxes-perhaps many of them will become conservative as time passes.
As the author wrote: The Republicans are in demographic trouble.
It’s true.
There may have been the widely reported criticism of those who cling to their guns and Bibles, but in reality it is the people clinging to the right to abortions and the stupidity of political correctness who are affecting the elections.
Yeah, it’s a little too early to write eulogies for the Republican party. I mean weren’t people saying in 2002-2004 that all the demographic trends were against Democrats? That we would have some permanent Republican majority?
In 2002-2004, the demographic trends were our way - growth in red states, loss of people in blue states, increasing support from Hispanics (talked about at the time as natural conservatives?), increasing inroads into the black community, Republicans have babies - liberals either don’t or kill them in their womb, folks moving to the suburbs, etc...
These things don’t permanently change in 2-4 years without something MAJOR happening. Most Bush voters who voted Obama and dems this time basically threw tantrums because of their own financial situation and wanted someone to blame or fell under his hypnotic spell or liked the idea of a black president.
Unless Obama and the Dems either enact amnesty, the Fairness doctrine, DC statehood, overturn election fraud measures, or actually ending up doing a halfway decent job (unlikely), then it’s far too early to talk about Permanent majorities.
Probably not-they are about to throw millions of Mid Westerners out of work-yes I mean the planned filibuster of the Auto industry bailout. Who is left to vote for the GOP for president? No votes in California or the entire North East, Western states are trending Democratic and the GOP is about to destroy any chance they had in the Mid West.
Yes, it is, actually.