Posted on 03/04/2016 5:20:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
That's the provocative thesis advanced by David Bernstein in a new piece for Politico Magazine:
If Trump wins the GOP nomination, he will be testing the limits of a strategy that has long haunted the Republican Party. Since the civil rights era, the Republicans have relied heavily upon white male voters in order to overcome a disadvantage among minorities and some subsets of women. Mathematically, that was an easier strategy a half-century ago, when white men dominated the electorate. But as the GOP failed to broaden its coalition and the demographics of America have shifted dramatically, an ever-greater percentage of white men has been required to secure a GOP victory.
And if, as it appears, Trump's opponent in the general election is Hillary Clinton, his lane becomes even narrower....
The math suggests Trump would need a whopping 70 percent of white men to vote for him. That's more than Republicans have ever won before - more than the GOP won in the landslide victories of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and far more than they won even during the racially polarized elections of Barack Obama....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Indeed, what a stupid stupid column.
It’s also presuming that white men will vote for Hilary.
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White Women love the Trump & they love Scott Brown shirtless.
...more race baiting from desperate people
Sargent has a million tweets where he argues with Ann Coulter and Mickey Kaus for amnesty.
Not an objective Democrat like a Chris Matthews or someone who could give you 20 pros and 20 cons of Trump.
“subsets of women” = single women, a lock for the promises of Uncle Sugar/Big Government politicians to take care of them.
“But as the GOP failed to broaden its coalition and the demographics of America have shifted dramatically” = the white vote has been diluted by mass importation of third worlders by Dims and Big Government Republicans.
Apparently, based on an article posted a couple days ago, I am no longer white. Trumps supporters are all dark. Who knew?
Have been becoming a minority for awhile now anyway.
That’s okay. I know a number of blacks who are seriously considering Donald because of the sustained level of unemployment.
If we uphold Voter ID there is.
Clearly this writer can’t see the forest for the trees.
“There may not be enough white men in America to elect Trump president”
Probably not...which is why Trump is also targeting MINORITIES, particularly blacks that want to work (i.e., most of them), Asians that want their kids to not be EXCLUDED from college based on eye design, and LEGAL Hispanics.
So Trump may be forgetting about the 0.001% of Americans that are Pacific Islanders from Tahiti, but otherwise I’d say he’s got them covered.
The stupid is amazingly strong!
“he will be testing the limits of a strategy that has long haunted the Republican Party.”
just makes me laugh - he’s already blown passed so many of their wimpy concerns.
The gravest sin of the American mainstream media has been to divide, collate and quantify this country’s people into categories, instead of looking at them as individuals.
the white vote has been diluted by mass importation of third worlders
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It was planned and both parties have been participating in the execution.
The RNC/GOP has been actively working against the people who vote for them.
The GOP has failed to woo minority voters. The main reason is that the Democrat Party has turned the white male into the boogeyman. So defeating the Republican Party will supposedly keep minority safe when the opposite is probably true.
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