Red New England?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

It could, as long as Republicans downplay social issues and focus on economic ones.  New Englanders are famously independent-minded and fiscally conservative, after all.  But the way the two parties are going right now, I kind of doubt it will happen.  I can dream, though, can't I?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Until the GOP drops the religious right, its gone.

The GOP doesn't have to drop the religious right, they just need to stop putting so much emphasis on social issues and governing by hostage crisis.

George HW Bush was a pragmatic conservative who won the last GOP landslide and carried much of the Northeast by convincing margins. That's what the Republican Party has to return to: pragmatic conservativism. We don't have to drop the Religious Right or become the Democratic Party. Just stop being ing insane about everything.

Winning elections and being conservative are not mutually exclusive.

I think this pretty much nails it.