Michael Barone: Changing Demographics Won't mean End of The Republican Party

Townhall ^ | Michael Barone

[emax]

When reading one of the endless stories about a just-released poll Thursday night, a pair of numbers struck my eye: 60 and 37.

Those were the percentages of white voters supporting Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in the ABC/Washington Post tracking poll. Overall, the poll showed Romney leading Obama 50 to 47 percent.

The reason those two numbers struck my eye is that they are identical to the percentages of white voters supporting Republicans and Democrats in elections for the House of Representatives in the 2010 exit poll. Overall, Republicans won the House popular vote by a margin of 52 to 45 percent, tied with 1994 for the best Republican showing since 1946.

In fact, it's the Republicans' biggest margin among white voters in House elections ever since the party was formed in 1854. Republican presidential candidates have won by bigger margins among whites only in 1920, 1972 and 1984.

Some will ascribe this to racism. But Barack Obama won enough votes from whites to win with 53 percent in 2008, more than any other Democratic nominee except Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

HEAR,HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cripplecreek]

As conservatives, we aren't all that enthralled with the sell-out approach of the "Big-Tent".

That's exactly my point. We could all become democrats and we'll win for sure but what would we be winning if we gave up all we stand for.

I live equidistant from Michigan state university, U of M, and Hillsdale college and I encounter a lot of college republicans who are just fiscally moderate democrats. Combine them with the former democrat party who are now maxists and things ain't looking do good for America. Even as a rural teenager I was never as liberal as these college republicans.

BTW, Hillsdale college produces the most conservative of the bunch and they seem to lean heavily toward Ron Paul.

[Zenjitsuman]

Lots of educated Brits, Germans , Italians and French would
love to escape the Euro socialism, if we would only change our immigration laws to allow the Brain Drain to come here.

[emax]

And educated South Americans, Central Americans, Africans, Iranians, Chinese, Filipinos, Thais, Vietnamese and others too. Either be for restricting immigration across the board or be in favor if immigration reform that allows for productive, educated workers from everywhere, not just places of Euro descent. The attitude that immigration should be so embraced when it comes to workers from Western and Northern Europe and shunned form everywhere else is not gonna get any kind of mainstream support whatsoever for the Social Conservative movement. Hopefully this is a fringe view and the US public will see it that way.

[GenXteacher]

+1 Well spoken.

[Graewoulf]

The only question posed by Michael Barone in his article was: “ Why are whites more one-sidedly partisan than just about ever before?”

In answering his question, Michael chose to answer the question by comparing Democrats and Republicans in terms of their voting percentages and various ethnic groups. Article topics and abundances are as follows:

White(s) 4
Non-Whites 3
Racial/racism 2
Minority 2
Black(s) 2
One each for topics of: University, Hispanics, Asians, ethnically and same-sex.

Michael chose to put his racially-colored glasses on and happily wrote his article. He was pleased. His Editor was pleased. The insulated Liberal Agenda Media was pleased.

Michael had lots of facts and high-faluting experts to use as fillers. Michael will probably get a raise, and maybe even an award from The Media, if not The RINO Party itself.

But did Michael answer the question?

After reading the article can one find that a major topic was left out?

BTW, gotta quit now. My back is killing me.

Don’t know why it is, but each year there seems to be more people in the wagon than pulling the wagon.

Just can’t figure it out!

Ouch, sorry FReepers, my back is plumb tuckered out from pulling the wagon tonight.

Sorry, I’ll try to pull it again tomorrow. Ouch! Dang!!

BTW, BTW, remember where I left off: Why are whites more one-sidedly partisan than just about ever before?

[emax]

Well the problem is that 1, The American public simply flat out has far more pressing issues than whether or not abortion would be allowed in case of rape or whether or not gays would be allowed to adopt or be in the military or get married in MA. A Republican who tries to attract public support on promising to prevent any of this simply isn’t gonna do well at all. The employment, fiscal, govt spending, debt and national security crisis completely overshadow this. And the Conservative as well as the Liberal leaders ignore this at their peril. We need to evaluate Republican, and Democrat for that matter since party lines are indeed becomingly increasingly meaningless, on their capability to adhere to Conservative or at the very least Moderate-Libertarian-Conservative-Sensible positions on the issues that are immediately affecting the majority of the American public. Congress will always have a very limited number of members who are genuinely Conservative or Liberal on all fiscal, social and foreign policy issues. Just isn’t gonna happen. Joining in with the modern liberal activists in whining about the lack of representation we have is not gonna win the genuine Conservative movement any significant mass support. Instead, take a more productive approach and understand how ordinary, independent minded Americans view each side and prove the value of your positions and show why these positions will solve our current crisis.

[SoConPubbie]

Well the problem is that 1, The American public simply flat out has far more pressing issues than whether or not abortion would be allowed in case of rape or whether or not gays would be allowed to adopt or be in the military or get married in MA. A Republican who tries to attract public support on promising to prevent any of this simply isn’t gonna do well at all. The employment, fiscal, govt spending, debt and national security crisis completely overshadow this. And the Conservative as well as the Liberal leaders ignore this at their peril. We need to evaluate Republican, and Democrat for that matter since party lines are indeed becomingly increasingly meaningless, on their capability to adhere to Conservative or at the very least Moderate-Libertarian-Conservative-Sensible positions on the issues that are immediately affecting the majority of the American public. Congress will always have a very limited number of members who are genuinely Conservative or Liberal on all fiscal, social and foreign policy issues. Just isn’t gonna happen. Joining in with the modern liberal activists in whining about the lack of representation we have is not gonna win the genuine Conservative movement any significant mass support. Instead, take a more productive approach and understand how ordinary, independent minded Americans view each side and prove the value of your positions and show why these positions will solve our current crisis.

And that refusal to do the right thing and make excuses about it will continue to move the GOP to the left and it's eventual demise as more and more conservatives leave as they realize the GOP has no intentions of honoring their principles.

We need to follow Reagan's approach of focusing on all branches of conservatism, and not the approach of Bob Dole, GHB, GWB, or Romney who all compromised on conservative principals.

Not being the Democrat, may work this time, but it won't next time, and as Romney, true to his history and values, does things that every conservative should cringe at, the changes for a GOP Presidency in the future will grow more and more Dim, just like in MA, and just like in CA, where the GOP in both cases, is dead, exactly because the party kept going to the left, until the differences between the Democrats and GOP in both cases was a distinction without a difference.

[BillyBoy]

>> The Republican Party is nothing more than a bunch of degenerate blue blood banker country clubbers who waged war against the sons of the Founders in 1861 and murdered the Republic via imposition of Universal Suffrage via Constitutional Amendment. They have since conspired with the communist faction of their fellow Washingtonians to make slaves of the working man outside of DC, under penalty of imprisonment via the IRS and the DOJ. <<

Yikes! Robert Byrd's ghost has an account on FR now! Even death can't stop him from carrying around his little copy of the constitution, incoherently blabbing about the evil warmonger Republicans, and bemoaning the lost cause!

[cookcounty]

"The Republican Party is nothing more than a bunch of degenerate blue blood banker country clubbers

Actually, I'm a retired trucker, the son of a construction worker who never went to high school, and I played a total nine holes of golf in my life.

[Isabel C.]

I could couldn't care less if the Republican Party survives.

[Impy]

Did you serve in Eric Cartman’s army?

[Impy]

I tell you that “could care less” saying drives me crazy.

So does saying “literally” when you mean “figuratively”.

Opposites! Should couples say “I hate you” before they go to bed?

As for this topic, still waiting for the magic “Brown wave” to drown the GOP, democrats have been saying it for years.

[Pining_4_TX]

Baby boomers are not going to get crap. The generations before the Boomers are the last to benefit from the gravy train. I don’t understand why people keep blaming Boomers. We have paid a tremendous amount in taxes over the years to support our parents and grandparents and now will be left holding the empty bag. I don’t want these programs to continue, even though it means we will be tooled, because I don’t want my kids and grandchildren to bear those burdens.

[EternalVigilance]

It’s sadly amusing watching them try to play Weekend at Bernie’s with a dead elephant.