Posted on 06/14/2015 11:33:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Historically, the white vote has been split about 50/50. The black “block” vote has helped to determine the outcome. When there is big black turnout, the Democrats win. When the Blacks stay home, the Republicans win.
In recent years, the white vote has been shifting Republican. Big minority and youth vote came out for Obama. But, will they do it again for a bunch of old white people? I don’t think so.
Unless the Democrats can get their people to the polls, the Republicans should win in 2016. Going after the minority vote won’t matter to the Republicans - with the minorities, you have to get them to the polls. I don’t see either the Republicans or Democrats getting a big minority turnout in 2016.
If that is the case, the fight should be over the group that traditionally turns out to vote - the white people. The Republicans have the advantage there. But, they must inspire them too. Nominating a GOPe candidate will not bring out a big turnout for the Republicans.
Romney should know better. He is an intelligent and very successful man. Yet he is giving bad advice. What the GOP needs to focus on is to energize the base. In previous elections too many of them stayed.
Exactly what I was thinking. Shouldn't one do the opposite of what a loser suggests?
Thanks for the advice, Mr. President. We know from 2008 and 2012 that you know everything about winning elections.
great way to insure you get a “minority” of the votes cast
Here is more on those three.
Navy Lt. Commander Richard Nixon came out of WWII and became a two term Congressman.
Congressman Nixon later won office as a United States Senator, and then served as a two term Vice President of the United States, as veep, he ran for and lost that 1960 presidential election by only thousands of votes.
In 1968 Reagan, as California Governor and already identified as a leader of the conservative wing of the GOP, ran against Eisenhower’s two term vice-president, who was on his 2nd presidential run, and who had so many winning campaigns under his belt (Reagan did beat him in popular votes).
In 1976 Governor Reagan was only months out of his second term as Governor of California, and he almost knocked off a SITTING GOP president as the counting went on after midnight “Ford prevailed with 1,187 delegates to Reagan’s 1,070”. In 1980 he did defeat a sitting president.
It was during Reagan’s 1980 campaign that Romney left the GOP, eventually to become a democrat supporter, fund raiser, and even voter, and not returning to the GOP until October of 1993, as a very left, Planned Parenthood fundraising, gays in the military, and gay scout leaders, and anti-gun republican.
Romney has won a single election that he won with less than 50%, in his more than 20 year career, and he served that single term as a failure and had to give up his goal of reelection, leaving office with 34% approval and turning the seat over to the democrats.
Romney ran against nobodies for 2008 and lost to two guys with no money or organization after he broke spending records and spent 50 million dollars of his own money, then in 2012 he squeaked it out as America kept desperately rotating among his nobody challengers for someone besides Mitt, then he lost the election against Jimmy Carter’s second term, an election that was almost impossible to lose, and it wasn’t even close.
Well, some effort to cut down the Dhimmicrap margins among minorities isn’t a bad idea, but Romney could have gotten 71 percent of Hispanics and still lost. The focus should be on white males and the rest of the Republican base. Just 4 percent more among white males and Mittens is President Etch A Sketch.
Taht’s how McCain won before him, too.
Here's a more important piece of advice:
Take steps now, especially in the swing states, to ensure the klintons don't steal the election!
Bubba and the Beast are not concerned with campaigning, because they know, come election night, they'll be able to produce the votes needed out of thin air. Vote fraud has been rampant the last 16 years, and probably put the kenyan over the top last time. All the GOP does is whine - after the election is lost.
lol. it’s a cant lose strategy!!
Might as well say: Mitt Romney's Advice to the GOP: LOSE
Unless the GOP focuses on WHITE voters, and ONLY White voters, they will surely lose.
Good advise, he should have been our President.
The best way to insure that you only get a minority is to position yourself to appeal to a minority. That is what happens when you ignore your base. You know your candidate is NOT going to appeal to the other side. And if you candidate does not appeal to the base, the only appeal your candidate as is to the so called “middle”. And since the middle tends to split pretty evenly, your candidate is just pushing votes away by ignoring the base.
Many people assert that based upon voter registrations, there are roughly 32% dem, 30% Independant, and 32% Republicans (allowing 6% for other parties and local variations). The ASSUMPTION is that the Independents are monolithic and are all middle ground in their political views. Most being influenced by the latest best sounding sound bite. But that is not the case.
Many are so fed up with their party, that they have opted to register as Independent. Yes, there are people left of the democrats and people to the right of republicans. In the case of the republicans, the GOPe has shifted so far to the left that the base is feeling that they have been abandoned. And subsequently have stopped supporting these GOPe Dem-lite candidates. I know, ‘cause I am one of them.
If you want a majority, then the GOP needs to nominate a candidate that the PARTY (as a whole) can support. The Dems won because they were able to motivate 5 million more people to vote. They did that by appealing to their base, not by moving to the middle. Overall, only 43% of the population voted in 2012 (129 million total votes). The winning margin 5 million out of 129 million was less than 4%.
Conservtives do not have and cannot get systemic political power because they are the people who make the society work. They work and create wealth. They do not have time or inclination to be permanent and professional activists. The wealthy left do not connect their wealth with industry. For them it is just a natural state of their basic goodness, even for the Gateses and the Zuckerbergs of the society. They made their money too fast and have no feelings of having earned it. For them wealth just fell out of the sky.
Professors understand their incomes and perks as simply society's reward for their inherent worth as the people who Society needs to make Society fair and equitible, Utopia as it were.
Mitt’s right, of course, concerning AMERICAN minority voters, meaning actual minority CITIZENS who are properly registered to vote.
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