Posted on 11/04/2015 1:40:50 PM PST by goldstategop
It's hard to overstate how important those GOP gains — and the consolidation of them we've seen in the last few years — are to the relative fates of the two parties. While the story at the national level suggests a Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step with the country on social issues, the narrative at the local level is very different. Republicans are prospering at the state level in ways that suggest that the party's messaging is far from broken.
There are other, more pragmatic effects of the GOP dominance in governor's races and state legislatures, too. Aside from giving the party a major leg up in the decennial redrawing of congressional lines, which has led to a Republican House majority not only today but likely through at least 2020, the GOP's dominance gives the party fertile ground to incubate policy that makes its way to the national level and to cultivate the future stars of the national party from the ground up.
While the demographic and electoral challenges that Republicans must confront at the national level are very real, the idea, pushed in some circles, that those struggles are leading indicators of a dying party is absolutely wrong. In fact, at the state and local level the Republican Party is considerably more robust than its Democratic counterpart.
Focus on the presidential race exclusively if you will. But remember that the long-term health of a party is about much more than simply the man or woman at the top of the ticket.
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When Democrats won elections in 2006 and 2008, I don’t recall the Washington Post describing their victories as a “stranglehold”.
And yet watch, I bet we end up with pervert boys in girls locker rooms in most of these states.
I don’t they should get so excited. As we can see from our current Congress, there is relatively no difference between the parties. Republicans are quite adept at spending like drunken sailors and ignoring their constituents.
“While the story at the national level suggests a Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step with the country..”
but there is not media bias.
And tell me again why it isn’t ageist and racist to have a problem with someone being old and white.
The two leading Democratic presidential aspirants are “white, old and out of step with the country.”
There, I fixed it.
Their bigotry doesn’t count. It’s a liberal thing.
I wonder if it matters to democrats. After all, under the Hope Change express local governments are to be subjugated to the federal behemoth. Who needs local government. All you need in their minds is a local federal government bureaucrat.
“Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step”
Even tough our presidential nominees are younger and more ethnically diverse than the Democrat hospice candidates.
Not surprising about Deep Blue Pennsylvania. Its going the way of New Jersey.
But that’s a state that hasn’t voted for a GOP presidential candidate since 1988.
While the story at the national level suggests a Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step with the country”
The Democrat Media believes its own delusions. Look at the Republican GOP presidential candidates. Then look at the Democrats’: Hillary and Sanders.
“The two leading Democratic presidential aspirants are “white, old and out of step with the country.â€
Your’re trying to be funny, but I have heard a lot of liberals complain seriously complain about the Dem candidates being white. I guess determining the value of a persons opinions based on their race is part of Dr. Kings “dream”.
Welcome to the Washington Post School Of Logic, where the majority of the country is out of step with the country.
Except here in PA where public sector unions turned out their voters in large numbers, and handed the state Supreme Court over to a solid Democrat majority.
Any attempts to do Scott Walker here are now DOA.
Social issues?
Matt Bevin, rejection of transgendered bathrooms in Houston, rejection of legal marijuana in OH.
Yet Americans who believe in traditional values are called out of step with the times.
How true!
While the story at the national level suggests a Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step with the country on social issues,No, what it suggests is that the Partisan Media Shills never stop trying to work for the interests of their single party state dream.
...the narrative at the local level is very different. Republicans are prospering at the state level in ways that suggest that the party's messaging is far from broken.By "the narrative", the shill means, "the facts".
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