. Still, demographics are not destiny and if Republicans succeed in winning over more Hispanics than they have in recent years, for instance, these states could well remain red. Damn right. I know it isn't popular to say around here, but the demographics ARE changing. We need to find a way to make our message more appealing to those changing demos. Not change our core, but change our messaging.
Small government, individual liberty, greater economic freedom CAN be "sold" if we target it correctly....and yes, sometimes that means GOING NEGATIVE on our competition.
the demographics ARE changing. We need to find a way to make our message more appealing to those changing demos.
An even bigger problem the Republican have is finding an effective way to get their message out.
Sure, the loyalists know it.
Sure, the FReepers and those on other conservative websites know it.
But, the GOP does not know how to reach the
low information voters or those who are busy taking the fixing kids lunches, taking kids to school, picking kids up and taking them to after-school affairs, fixing dinner, etc. In some former lifetimes, many of them have also been called Soccer Moms and Walmart Moms.
The GOPe run their candidates the same way they did in 1992, 1996, and 2008. Even the major networks have lost more than half of their viewership in that time.
The GOP needs to develop a more effective message and needs to develop a more efficient way of delivering it.
The GOP seems to be a lost party in the wilderness. They say they want to be a big ticket party, but that means they have to move even further to the left. They continue to evolve into Dem-lite or even Dem II.
Why support them when it is difficult to distinguish them from the Democratic Party?
Even they can't answer that -- and therein lies their quandry.