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The GOP’s Electoral Future: Will it really become a permanent minority?
National Review ^ | 04/22/2014 | Michael Barone

Posted on 04/22/2014 7:25:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/22/2014 7:25:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to make playing the race card a hate crime.


2 posted on 04/22/2014 7:30:18 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: SeekAndFind
If the GOP has become a white party it is because most non-whites have followed the siren song of racial grievance to the democrat party.

Any change in the current trend needs to occur in the hearts of non-whites.

3 posted on 04/22/2014 7:30:43 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

Who cares. Everytime I see Boner or Kantor or King or McCain or McConnel or Gramnesty I just want to vomit. If I wanted to support a party that is run by creeps and hates conservatives I would support the democrats. At least they have some stones...


4 posted on 04/22/2014 7:33:04 AM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: SeekAndFind

For those who haven’t figured this out...it’s mostly a fight from urban America to rural America. Urban areas would be used to really attract the votes and settle this entire Presidential voting scheme, from top to bottom, from funding to attention.

Rural areas would not be part of the voting process, and thus cease to mean anything except for absolute control of the House, for decades to come. States would draw the districts as much as they want, but you can’t really beat the rural nature of control.

So you end up with an imbalance. Maybe the political wizards and junkies think it’d be something otherwise, but look over the past decade. Urban areas got the vote out for Democrats....rural areas got the vote out for Republicans.


5 posted on 04/22/2014 7:34:05 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind

No doubt the GOP is passing the tipping point at which it’s a minority party. Demographics will overwhelm it, especially as it performs the final throat slash to its own existence with amnesty legislation.

Fortunately, for now, it’s still competitive in some statehouse and state legislatures, so it still can have an impact.


6 posted on 04/22/2014 7:34:06 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: skeeter

*** If the GOP has become a white party it is because most non-whites have followed the siren song of racial grievance to the democrat party.

Any change in the current trend needs to occur in the hearts of non-whites.***

You are correct, and that change won’t happen. The media and the education system are all in to assure that it won’t happen.

We are watching this country come apart. I was hoping I’d be gone before it happened. If God grants me a reasonably long life, I will see the fall of the United States.


7 posted on 04/22/2014 7:34:24 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As usual, Barone and NR spew out nonsense trying to make it sound erudite.

The key to winning ANY election is to speak (and mean) conservative truths. These reach across all lines and draw in all people who want to live a better freer life


8 posted on 04/22/2014 7:36:04 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: brownsfan
If God grants me a reasonably long life, I will see the fall of the United States.

Same here.

9 posted on 04/22/2014 7:36:05 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: brownsfan

Nonsense.

America need not collapse.

However someone needs to be on our own nation’s side.

The GOP is sold out to China. The Dems are sold out to China. Everyone is sold out.

Everyone.

Someone needs to stand up strong, and for America.

America.


10 posted on 04/22/2014 7:36:23 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: skeeter

We richly deserve oblivion. Look at our leadership, what sane person would send money to the Senate Republicans (remember Alaska.


11 posted on 04/22/2014 7:37:20 AM PDT by Hans
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Nonsense.”

I’m not trying to dissuade you. A positive attitude is a good thing. I can’t be positive, because I’m a realist. It is odd that you scold me, then proceed to negate your own rebuttal.

In America, majority rules. The majority, like it or not, doesn’t want the America you and I grew up in. What the majority wants is unsustainable, and history shows that it is the path to a totalitarian government.


12 posted on 04/22/2014 7:42:31 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As a lifelong Republican, I would naturally like to see my Party have more appeal among women, blacks, and hispanics. But if that mean supporting abortion to get the women’s vote, supporting affirmative action and more welfare spending to get the black vote, and turning blind eye towards illegal immigration to get the hispanic vote.....FORGET ABOUT IT!!!!!!!

Much happier being in the smaller tent!


13 posted on 04/22/2014 7:42:51 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: brownsfan

.....Or a path to a future revolt.


14 posted on 04/22/2014 7:44:21 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP will be a “permanent minority” once it passes amnesty. The problem is, most Republicans are okay with that.


15 posted on 04/22/2014 7:45:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: ScottinVA

“Same here.”

I have an incredible sadness that I can’t shake because of this. I see this coming, it’s undeniable, it’s unavoidable, and yet, most of those around me seem oblivious. I really thought I would miss the fall of this country. Now it appears I’m getting a front row seat. (Half of the morons in this country won’t understand it, even when it happens).


16 posted on 04/22/2014 7:45:22 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I see a growing turning of the backs towards party politics.


17 posted on 04/22/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: brownsfan

I see more and more of my predictions coming true.


18 posted on 04/22/2014 7:46:40 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl

“.....Or a path to a future revolt.”

Revolt grows from unbearable conditions. Americans are the classic case of frogs in a pot. Heck, some of them are asking for it to get warmer.


19 posted on 04/22/2014 7:46:59 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Breto
GOPe is becoming a minority party because they're at war with their base: Tea Partiers and evangelicals. It's a simple as that.

I turned my Hispanic in-laws from Democrats into Republicans by not backing down from my principles, i.e. pro-life, pro-Constitution. My youngest child (of three) is the most conservative yet, and his older brother and sister are reliably on the right side of things.

I'll damned if I'm going to keep spinning my wheels to keep GOPe in office, ready to stab me in the back when it suits their needs.

20 posted on 04/22/2014 7:47:44 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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