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The presidential election was won by less than 200 votes. At this time with the country in the mid point of a major transition no group is too small to matter. As the author points out, if the GOP were primarily a white Christian party it would be toast, that's just not a large enough percentage of America to win elections by its self. This group is the Reagan-type candidates. People that in some ways were associated with the Democratic Party and liberalism but have seen things change over there and can't take it any more. Welcome to changing times, the definitions of 20 or even 40 years ago simply don't work any more. Things change, the definition of positions change. Remember, the GOP started the first conservation movement in this country. The world's not made of single issue voters.

I thought Bush actually lost the popular vote.

I did not write any group was too small or that the Republicans should forfeit the Roukma-Republican vote. I think the author is writing from anecdotal experience and Bill Schneider is writing with the demographic knowledge of a polster. Schneider views the election in terms of ethnicity and religion, primarily. With some exceptions, white areas are strongly republican. Almost without exception, nonwhite areas (to include Indian reservations) vote democrat.