The obvious answer is of course Virginia and North Carolina. We already know that the Democrats are able to win those states.
In the near future they may also be able to win Georgia. If the Democrats are able to pick away Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia there is absolutely no chance of the Republicans winning the election. The GOP needs to realize that Virginia might not return to the fold, and that Georgia might not be as solidly red as it is today.
They need to develop policies to appeal to new voters in these states, both highly educated transplants from the Northeast and Hispanics (I don’t think they can compete for the Black vote anytime soon). The good news is that this will not just help them in Virginia. It may also help them in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Are you kidding me?
After the Republicans took over the North Carolina state government for the first time in 130 years, the Republicans are swinging the state as far right as possible.
Don't like it? Well, too bad since they have supermajority thanks to redistricting.
And don't let me even get to race-baiting in Georgia. (I am not African American, but even I think it is outrageous.)
Exactly where did I suggest that the NC legislature is a model for what the GOP needs to do?
Obviously they are able to do pretty much whatever they want in states like Georgia and North Carolina, but moving as far to the right as possible might not be the best way to sustain a majority in the long term.
That is why I said that they need to develop policies to appeal to voters that currently distrusts or dislikes the Republicans. That will enable them to hold on to states like Georgia and North Carolina, and compete with the Democrats in the atlas red states.
At this point they are not doing enough to reach out to any new voting groups. It appears that they assume that a lot of socially liberal whites will return to the fold when they realize that the GOP wants to cut their taxes, and that the Hispanics will return when they realize that they are “natural Republicans”, who dislike gay marriage and abortion. This is the sort of complacency that will cost them dearly.
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