Bottom line: GOPe cannot rally poor and working-class whites. In an era of tribal politics, whites have to have a party, and they don’t.
Yeah, you nailed it. The white vote is split. And with the massive immigration combined with the dying off off the WWII and Korean War generations the last ten years, the GOP has lost their ability to win a number of key states like Colorado, Florida, NC, Virginia and Ohio.
I see only two plays here. We need to dump the social conservative stuff and play to the young voters and their lack of jobs or figure out a way to play to the upper Midwest and take WI, IA, MI, OH somehow with an economic message that doesn’t champion free trade and elite corporate crap.
The tool and die guy in Michigan is no fan of “free trade” and GOPe policies. And he likes his guns as well. That means he doesn’t like Mitt Romney. But it also doesn’t mean he likes Sarah Palin or Richard Mourdock either.
This is where Scott Walker comes in. Walker stays clear of the social issues, grew up in humble beginnings and didn’t even finish college. And he’s all about economic opportunity and less government regulations.
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