Every election the Republicans won was without winning the minorities vote. In fact they won these elections despite the vast majority of the minorities voting against them.
That isn’t the case jveritas, Republicans used to receive the majority of the Black Vote until Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
GWB got 45% of the Hispanic Vote in 04 as well.
But there is little chance minorities would peel away from Obama for a candidate like McCain, if there was ever an “old white guy” McCain was it.
School vouchers, opportunity, and being pro small business and pointing out that Abortion amounts to genocide in minority communities is the path to making Conservatism at least on par with Liberalism.
And the best part is, those issues do not require the abandonment of solid Principles.
very true. Even at the height of the GOP when Reagan won in 84 he only got 9% of the black vote. If the dems had an actual black guy to vote for like they did last year, he’d have done no better than McCain did. Reagan got 34% of the Hispanic vote in 84, about the same as McCain got.
The difference is he got 66% of the white vote vs 55% of the white vote and the white vote itself shrank from 86% of the total to 74%.
The GOP will never get more than around 10% of the black vote barring some massive change in politics or them running a black candidate. Even then a conservative black guy won’t get more than around 20-25% at most. See Steele in MD, Swann in PA, Blackwell in OH, etc... A moderate black guy like Powell would do better but I think even he would have gottena round a third of the black vote at most.
Hispanics are somewhat similar. W was an exception being from TX, having Jeb in FL with his Hispanic wife, etc... and he did make inroads but the immigration thing hurt the party badly. I don’t see them topping 35% or so any time soon.
We just have to a better job of maxing out the white vote. McCain still got 55% in the worst anti-GOP yr since 76 and the worst economy/recession in a generation. But it will be tough. Even in 2004 with a good economy, having terrorism/natl security and moral values as major issues, and outspending the dems, W still topped out at 58% and that just won’t cut it going forward. McCain could have replicated W’s totals last year and he’d still have lost by 2 or 3 pts.
That strategy can’t work forever...minorities are outbreeding whites.
I say this as a new dad (who is white) - the percentage of babies in the maternity unit in our hospital who are white is a much smaller percentage than the white adult population...it’s anecdotal but also supported by statistics.
That will/has stopped happening now that “minorities” are not really in the minority any more.
As someone said in the duplicate thread of this article, it is not conservatives who have to evolve to attract minorities, it is minorities who must evolve before they are capable of embracing Conservative concepts.
And their growth and development is stunted by revisionist depts of education and treasonous MSM outlets.
issue now jv is that we won those elections at 53-55% of the peckerwood vote
with immigration both legal and otherwise trending dem we now need 58% or better
at least that’s the analysis I’ve seen from last November’s results where the usual 55% was not enuff
i think it’s easier to get big gulp fatassed peckerwoods off their butts and vote GOP than it is to get enuff minorites to matter
i mean what “minorities” vote RIGHT anyhow?
one hand:
Cubers
Vietnamese
Japs
Christian Arabs used to...at least in Dixie they did (i’m 1/32 one myself)
Rich South Americans fleeing despots and collectivists
that bout covers which “minorities” vote majority to the GOP