“The EC heavily favors the GOP.”
It won’t much longer.
Have you read about the demographics of Texas? The exploding (carefully chosen word) birthrates of Hispanics vis-a-vis the declining birthrate for Euros all-but guarantees that within a generation, Texas will “tip” from majority-Republican to majority-democrat.
Once the Pubbies can no longer count on Texas’ 55 electoral votes, it will become mathematically impossible for them to again win the presidency.
Even today, the ‘rats start off with a larger “electoral college baseline” (i.e., states in which victory is near-guaranteed to them) than do the Republicans.
Once Tejas goes, it’s all over.
I don’t like it any more than you do.
But that’s the future.
But that’s the future.
Actually that's the future that the DNC envisions, but its not entirely accurate. As much as they would like Hispanics to be the new blacks, they aren't and they probably never will be. They don't have the history of racial injustice to fall back on, and they generally came here for their own economic reasons. No, they are not assimilating as fast as previous minority groups. But the ones who are successful will hate paying taxes just as much as the rest of us. And as a group they have major issues with the liberal social agenda. Will they break 60/40 Democrat for a generation or two? Probably. But it would be foolish to write them off the way you appear to be doing. I disagree with a lot of what Rick Perry has to say, but I think he was doing the Lord's work in recognizing the problem for what it is and trying to solve it instead of alienating a huge percentage of his voting bloc out of hand.