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This is related to what I was saying in another thread about the republicans needing to become more centrist and less appealing to the far right. Republicans for example will at least need to lay off on attacking affirmative action if they want to get more Black-American votes and be more open to pro choice women.
I would think strategically Republicans are going to move towards the center, get younger, and attempt to appeal to more non-Whites. Their future depends on it.
Republicans for example will at least need to lay off on attacking affirmative action if they want to get more Black-American votes and be more open to pro choice women.
I disagree. Opposing affirmative action and racial quotas is fine, in fact most people disagree with affirmative action.
What the GOP needs to do is lay off their far right-wing religious agenda and evangelical bent, which is the only way they will get the Northeast back, and more educated states like CO and VA. It might not get liberals to join the GOP, but it will attract more moderates and independents.
I disagree. Opposing affirmative action and racial quotas is fine, in fact most people disagree with affirmative action.
Most Black-Americans,Latinos and women support AA. Women(white women specificlly)have been the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action. So getting rid of workplace affirmative action could impact women greatly.
Republicans will never get the black vote and it looks like they are losing the Hispanic vote. Without the support of those two voting blocks, it will be very difficult for republicans to win presidential elections 20 or 30 years down the roads. By 2040, there will be more minorities than white people in this country and minorities tend to side with the democrats.
Republicans will never get the black vote and it looks like they are losing the Hispanic vote. Without the support of those two voting blocks, it will be very difficult for republicans to win presidential elections 20 or 30 years down the roads. By 2040, there will be more minorities than white people in this country and minorities tend to side with the democrats.
Republicans are going to have to walk a fine tricky line to garner the Hispanic vote. In the past they have been able to attract Hispanics as being the conservative, more traditional, more family oriented party but if they plan on moving more to the center they might lose some of that appeal.
Don't you think it is time we all stopped talking about race?
Not talking about it isn't going to make it go away no matter how much you wish that it would. The longer it the discussion is kept under wraps the longer race will remain a problem.
The Republicans are basically a dead party. They are a national party in name only. The problem facing them is that the ideology and policies that formed the essence of that party have now been discredited and have also revealed themselves to be totally out of touch with most of America. In fact, the policies always were out of touch with most Americans, but the Republicans employed divisive politics in order to obfuscate this fact. But with the changing demographics of the US the Republicans cannot rely upon using divide and conquer strategies to win.
They are actually going to have to come up with real ideas that are in touch with Americans and rely upon a politics of unification not division. Here are a couple of things the Republicans will have to get rid of in order to succeed: the Christian Right, Nativism, anti-intellectualism, hyper-patriotism, conceptions of "the other," unilateralism, exclusion and exceptionalism. This is a fairly long list, and one could make the argument that if the Republicans jettisoned all these ideas they would essentially be Democrats. Maybe, maybe not. But it is going to be an interesting few years to see what the Republicans will actually do. Because as of right now they are obsolete.
In two years we will be electing more members to congress. I predict a Republican landslide. It will be a policy rather than a racial vote. Don't you think it is time we all stopped talking about race?
There is no logical basis whatsoever to expect a Republican landslide in 2 years..
You're dreaming....
Latinos and Blacks and Immigrants are the young will vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, as will college educated and affluent whites...
Game over - Republicans will take another bath in 2010...
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