Possible New GOP Coalitions

[All Along The Watchtower]

The GOP could be smarter about toning down their End Times far-right religious rhetoric. That would definitely help them with such demographics as highly-educated, urban/suburban professionals, white mainline Protestants, and even some completely secular voters who otherwise fit the GOP demographic profile (white, married, affluent...)

I also think that if enough (male) Republican officials and candidates stopped making bad comments about things like rape, for example, they wouldn't be having such trouble with (white, married, middle-to-upper-class) women, who are also an important voting bloc for Republicans.

As far as reaching out to Latino voters goes: if they were serious about immigration reform  (which I'm not convinced they are) and stopped pandering to racists and xenophobes with their "self-deportation" rhetoric (or even with laws like the infamous Arizona law), they could make some inroads into the Latino vote-which they will need to, sooner or later.

The Republican Party could maintain much of its conservative ideology and still do a lot better than they did in 2008 and 2012. The Democratic Party is not a crazy left-wing party (particularly nowadays) by any means, and have actually moved to the Right on many substantive issues over time.

[All Along The Watchtower]

In terms of religious demographics, the Republican Party would be wise, over the long-term, to reach out to at least some of the members of the fastest-growing religious group in the American population-the "Nones." (Note: this group is NOT the same as atheists/agnostics, who IIRC, are pretty overwhelmingly Dem now-for understandable reasons, of course-but are too small a group to make much of an impact). How they do that, I'm not sure.

Beyond that, the GOP needs to improve its margins among Catholics (and not just white non-Hispanic Catholics...) and mainline Protestants. A party that is overwhelmingly dominated by White evangelical Protestants in general, because of the way that many evangelicals'(particularly the political ones )  aggressive and frankly, obnoxious style turns off non-evangelicals, will not be able to reach out to much of the population. Furthermore, the dogmatic, rigid beliefs of many evangelical Protestants (and the hypocrisy of many megachurch pastors ) also turn people away from an increasingly evangelical-dominated Republican Party. Finally, white evangelicals are declining as a share of the electorate.

Beyond this, I'm not sure what else the GOP can do. It's in a position where it needs to turn out both "the base" in large numbers while at the same time, not alienate "swing" voters.