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The Math and the Map ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | February 22, 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/22/2016 5:03:15 PM PST by ri4dc

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To: ri4dc

Pretty depressing.

The first George Bush ran on Reagan coattails. Reagan was SO popular and I fear we’ll never see the likes of that again. Mainly because of massive immigration.

Sad.


21 posted on 02/22/2016 5:45:00 PM PST by Baldwin77 ('gaffes.)
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To: ri4dc

Whew. That was depressing.


22 posted on 02/22/2016 5:46:19 PM PST by Theophilus (Make America Hope for Great Change Again)
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To: ri4dc

for later


23 posted on 02/22/2016 5:49:15 PM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: ri4dc

Altogether, a very depressing picture Steyn presents. But the takeaway is that there is a large segment of the latent electorate that can be swung into action. It’s conceivable that in this election counter trends may influence outcome beyond what could happen in countries that already have closer to full turnout.


24 posted on 02/22/2016 5:52:30 PM PST by omni-scientist
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To: ri4dc

Demographics is destiny. The way it’s going America is destined to be “Brown,” socialist, and poor. Enjoy!


25 posted on 02/22/2016 5:59:52 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: ri4dc

;)


26 posted on 02/22/2016 6:00:24 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: goldstategop

You’ve got that right: demographics is destiny.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/11/07/is-demographics-as-destiny-overrated/
As we’ve learned, if the WSJ says it’s so, it prolly ain’t so.

“Two years later, what have we got? Republicans control the Senate, the House of Representatives, a majority of the nation’s governorships, and the bulk of the state legislatures. Below the presidential level, Democrats are arguably in their weakest state since the 1920s. And even if many Democrats get their wish and Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, she is not a lead-pipe cinch to win.

(Our Tories don’t see a problem with Democrats still running things through the GOP.)

“All of this points to a problem with the “demographics as destiny” argument. Whites now, and for the foreseeable future, will cast an overwhelming majority of the nation’s ballots in both midterms (75% of the vote, according to 2014 exit polls) and presidential elections (72% in 2012). And in 2010, 2012 and 2014, they favored the Republicans by a whopping 20 percentage points or more.”

We’ve got to cut these guys loose, and NR and all the rest: that entire crowd of: “Let’s elect Rubio, a guy who will drive the final nail in the coffin.”
Time for a new party—no Democrats in gated communities masquerading as conservatives allowed!


27 posted on 02/22/2016 6:03:57 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: nascarnation

This is the first time I’ve seen this put this way and it sounds about right.


28 posted on 02/22/2016 6:08:21 PM PST by Ultima
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To: nascarnation

Oh yeah, you might have forgot this. Every year a million new democrat voters are added from outside the country.


29 posted on 02/22/2016 6:09:49 PM PST by Ultima
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To: TTFlyer

The whole country will turn into California.


30 posted on 02/22/2016 6:10:48 PM PST by Ultima
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To: ri4dc

I’ll read it but i really only want a 20% turnout of people that can articulate a case for voting for their candidate.


31 posted on 02/22/2016 6:11:26 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Ultima

Back in 1993, I don’t think anybody on our side realized how effective the Clinton “motor voter” law would turn out to be for Democrats.


32 posted on 02/22/2016 6:14:48 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: goldstategop
Immigration is transforming this country. We have taken in 35 million legal permanent immigrants since 1990. Immigrants vote more than two to one Dem. Unless we curb legal immigration, the Dems will be the permanent majority party within a decade.


33 posted on 02/22/2016 6:16:00 PM PST by kabar
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

Really?


34 posted on 02/22/2016 6:35:08 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: ri4dc

Long term, two things have to happen: America has to restore the integrity of its borders, and conservatism has to get a piece of the action in the schools and the culture. Short term, the GOP has done a grand job of screwing itself out of electoral viability.>>> i read it and he gets it. border, common core destroyed, va cared for. This is our our duty to those of us that did not serve to now serve them! we cannot survive as a country choosing to neglect you all. ss not touched for now, tax cuts. that is about all any president can accomplish in 8 years. the rest is just hooey.


35 posted on 02/22/2016 6:38:18 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Perchant

teyn asserts that Trump will get the majority of these other guy’s supporters when they drop out >>> exit polls i think. they do look good for trump but i’ll get flamed here.


36 posted on 02/22/2016 6:42:02 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Ciexyz
Interesting read. I feel sorry for the young people in our country who will someday have their votes nixed out by the flood of illegals imported by the Uniparty........young voters? Try this next election, it is going to happen then.
37 posted on 02/22/2016 6:42:22 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: ri4dc

All this wonderful LEGAL immigration sunk the conservative movement. Yet you still see people pop up out here who can’t get this simple fact through their heads. 80% of legal immigrants vote democratic.


38 posted on 02/22/2016 7:08:21 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: ri4dc

Depressing article also. This is the last chance to stop the deconstruction of the United States. If Trump does not win, it is over.


39 posted on 02/22/2016 7:26:56 PM PST by odawg
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To: ri4dc

The biggest demographic problem with the GOP is it ditched Conservatism and limited government in favor of an unholy alliance with the Democrats at the federal level (the Uniparty). In every state except Hawaii, Conservatives outnumber liberals. The GOP could win a lot of elections by embracing Conservatism as they still do at the state and local level.


40 posted on 02/22/2016 7:37:12 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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