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« Reply #25 on: August 02, 2012, 11:30:15 AM »

They should just nominate Dan Cathy, Chick Fil A CEO, for president in 2016. Judging from all the cars at his restaurants yesterday, he has a lot of support already.
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« Reply #26 on: August 02, 2012, 12:48:03 PM »

They should just nominate Dan Cathy, Chick Fil A CEO, for president in 2016. Judging from all the cars at his restaurants yesterday, he has a lot of support already.

Lol.

But seriously though, as my esteemed colleague Snowstalker pointed out in a chat convo, "If the Democrats survived the Civil War and the Republicans survived the Great Depression..." c'mon. At a point where Republicans control the House of Representatives and their nominee is facing an incumbent, there's no call for saying that the GOP is going to die out.
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« Reply #27 on: August 02, 2012, 04:57:03 PM »

They should just nominate Dan Cathy, Chick Fil A CEO, for president in 2016. Judging from all the cars at his restaurants yesterday, he has a lot of support already.

Lol.

But seriously though, as my esteemed colleague Snowstalker pointed out in a chat convo, "If the Democrats survived the Civil War and the Republicans survived the Great Depression..." c'mon. At a point where Republicans control the House of Representatives and their nominee is facing an incumbent, there's no call for saying that the GOP is going to die out.

Yes there is, Reaganite.

The GOP is so dead in a few years because of their extremism.  I wouldn't be surprised if, due to GLobal Warming becoming true and Democrats making the economy truly great, that the GOP dies off by 2020 and Jon Huntsman wins the Democratic Primaries in 2020 and goes onto win a landslide election against Wyoming Lieutenant Governor Daniel Baumgardener.

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Meh, they are kind of in a hole right now.  Luckily for the GOP though there is a Democratic President.  And, as modern US history has shown, having an opposite party incumbent in the White House is a benefit for Congress save an extreme economic catastrophe or war.  Unless Barack Obama turns out to be Jesus Christ and heals the nation with his God Powered hands, the GOP will be just fine (congressionally at least).
In fact, given the correlation between Presidential and Congressional results, I would envy the situation the GOP finds themselves in.  It is in their best interest to lose Presidential Elections if they continue to be successful in turning Democratic Administrations into Paper Tigers.
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« Reply #28 on: August 02, 2012, 06:59:37 PM »

They should just nominate Dan Cathy, Chick Fil A CEO, for president in 2016. Judging from all the cars at his restaurants yesterday, he has a lot of support already.

Lol.

But seriously though, as my esteemed colleague Snowstalker pointed out in a chat convo, "If the Democrats survived the Civil War and the Republicans survived the Great Depression..." c'mon. At a point where Republicans control the House of Representatives and their nominee is facing an incumbent, there's no call for saying that the GOP is going to die out.

Yes there is, Reaganite.

The GOP is so dead in a few years because of their extremism.  I wouldn't be surprised if, due to GLobal Warming becoming true and Democrats making the economy truly great, that the GOP dies off by 2020 and Jon Huntsman wins the Democratic Primaries in 2020 and goes onto win a landslide election against Wyoming Lieutenant Governor Daniel Baumgardener.

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Meh, they are kind of in a hole right now.  Luckily for the GOP though there is a Democratic President.  And, as modern US history has shown, having an opposite party incumbent in the White House is a benefit for Congress save an extreme economic catastrophe or war.  Unless Barack Obama turns out to be Jesus Christ and heals the nation with his God Powered hands, the GOP will be just fine (congressionally at least).
In fact, given the correlation between Presidential and Congressional results, I would envy the situation the GOP finds themselves in.  It is in their best interest to lose Presidential Elections if they continue to be successful in turning Democratic Administrations into Paper Tigers.

Honestly, in the long term the GOP would be better off losing the current presidential election since it would saddle them with the blame for any rough economic/foreign straits ahead and leave the Democrats a gigantic opening.

It would also teach them the wrong lesson so far as tailoring a platform to appeal to people in the future goes.
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« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2012, 06:46:02 PM »

The argument will be made that Romney lost because he's a RINO, but I don't think it'll be a major factor on the Presidential primary. That's going to come down to the political abilities of the candidates more than anything else. I don't think it's going to come down to whether Marco Rubio is more of a conservative than Chris Christie or Rand Paul, but who's the most effective at debates and speeches.

Emboldened by tea party victories, you'll have a few major primaries. Lindsey Graham will be at the most risk, given the conservative lean of his state. And it would be better for him if Romney's in the White House, as that would result in less conservative outrage.
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« Reply #30 on: August 04, 2012, 02:19:43 PM »
« Edited: August 04, 2012, 02:30:42 PM by Orion0 »

But in Canada, ironically enough, things have been steadily swinging to the right on social issues since the 1980s or so. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if bringing back the death penalty and banning abortion became viable political moves in ten or twenty years.

I thank you for the reply, great points. However this statement had me confused. The death penalty remains at its historical % of about 2/3 support of the public (as it has been for decades), but when asked if the death penalty should be reinstated in Canada support falls well below half, with many preferring alternatives like life without parole. Abortion is also politically dead in Canada, with an outright majority self-identifying as pro-choice ( as of 2011). An all-out ban on abortion is only viable for 5 % of the public, while restrictions on abortion only net about 20-30% support. Throw in the large scale (and growing) public support for gay marriage and legalization of marijuana and any argument that Canada is moving right on social issues falls flat.

Honestly, I see the "successful" GOP of 2020 being somewhat socially conservative if less so than presently with a libertarian bent. Dropping the drug war would probably let them appeal to the urban poor and Hispanics a bit better, and I'd say their present pro-war/interventionism stance isn't going to last either.

An excellent point. At least change the focus of the drug war, American jails aren't exactly known to reform the first time offender, maybe shift from imprisonment to education? As for interventionism, I can't exactly see this changing significantly in the future. The world would be a radically different place without a militarized USA, and I just cannot see any change to that balance of power being taken by those in either party.

The argument will be made that Romney lost because he's a RINO, but I don't think it'll be a major factor on the Presidential primary. That's going to come down to the political abilities of the candidates more than anything else. I don't think it's going to come down to whether Marco Rubio is more of a conservative than Chris Christie or Rand Paul, but who's the most effective at debates and speeches.

I would argue that after 4 more years of O it would make a huge difference which candidate is more fiscally conservative. The coming years of the USA will be decided based on controlling spending and paying down debt. An uncompromising fiscal conservative that can actually speak well? You've got a future winner.
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« Reply #31 on: August 07, 2012, 07:24:10 PM »

They should just nominate Dan Cathy, Chick Fil A CEO, for president in 2016. Judging from all the cars at his restaurants yesterday, he has a lot of support already.

I agree!!!!
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« Reply #32 on: August 08, 2012, 05:52:59 PM »

Bold prediction: They'll continue to lurch to the right after Romney looses in 2012 on the basis that he was "too librul!" Then they'll nominate some Tea party candidate like Rubio, Jindal, or Ted Cruz as a sign that they're moving further to the right while also trying to improve their appeal to minorities.  Only after they loose in 2016 will they realize that they need to move much closer to the center if they're going to win again. 
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« Reply #33 on: August 08, 2012, 09:58:05 PM »

They should nominate Louie Gohmert or maybe someone even more batsh*t crazy. Only then can they turn out DUH BASE!!!!
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« Reply #34 on: August 08, 2012, 10:56:38 PM »

They should nominate Louie Gohmert or maybe someone even more batsh*t crazy. Only then can they turn out DUH BASE!!!!

They need to nominate someone like that and lose in a historic landslide if they are ever to return to anything remotely resembling a serious party.
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« Reply #35 on: August 19, 2012, 05:20:24 PM »

The GOP will keep going further to the right until they realize how bad it is for the party.  (And I say that as a conservative and a Republican.)  They will say that Romney lost because he was a RINO, just like they did when Bush I lost his reelection bid and when Dole and McCain lost.
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« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2012, 10:37:27 AM »

GOP will head further right. They did after 2008, as all the Republican candidates were further right this year. I think many moderate Republicans will start siding with the Libertarians, and put them on the national landscape a lot more.
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« Reply #37 on: November 03, 2012, 04:57:22 PM »

The GOP has just about maxed out with whites, and this is the last election they can pull off relying mainly on the white vote to win presidential elections.  Given this is a close election, if Romney loses because of his weakness with Latinos and other minorities (and the party identifies that as the main reason for its loss this year), it will finally force it to seriously and sincerely focus on wooing those electorates as never before.  It might finally transform the GOP from being perceived as the White Man's Party.    
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« Reply #38 on: December 24, 2012, 12:29:42 PM »

I may have been too hopeful....  Tongue
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« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2012, 04:01:25 AM »

Because demographics are against the Republican Party.  They seem to be actively attempting to purge everyone from the party that isn't a white christian, and with demographic trends being what they are, that is a recipe for disaster.  "Small town America" has been paved over by suburban housing developers and populated with emigrants from around the country.  The Atlantic coast is trending D, potentially leaving the Republicans with only the sparse electoral votes of Appalachia and the Plains states.

A lot of Democrats take the 'demographics will kill the GOP' line as an article of faith, but it's really not born out by the numbers. First off, Republicans only win slightly more than 60% of the white vote -- there's plenty of opportunity for expansion there. Second off, generally moderately well-off Hispanics are no less or more likely to vote Republican than their white counterparts (African-Americans vote more unanimously Democratic) -- the reason they seem to vote disproportionately Democratic is that many of them are urban poor, who obviously vote Democratic. Even now, Hispanics are underrated as a swing demographic; Bill Clinton in 1996 broke 70%, Obama was somewhere in the 60s with Hispanics, but Bush in 2004 lost  in the high single-digits -- and while it's still a loss, there's a big difference between more than 70% and high single-digits.

The difference between Hispanics in 2004 and Hispanics in 2008 was that Dubya seduced them politically with easy credit for buying real estate, if at ruinous terms for all involved and that in 2008 John McCain could not dare offer that because the "Ownership Society" of Dubya became a catastrophic failure. Mexican-Americans buy into housing at lower levels of income than almost any other ethnic group, and when they bought into the corrupt boom they got burned as no other ethnic group got burned.

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100,000 net immigrants in an identifiable group of 40 million people has a bigger significance than 100,000 net immigrants into a population of 4 million people. One group has more rapid growth in proportion to its numbers than the other despite the same number of people joining it. Birth rates are falling for Hispanics as they achieve middle-income occupations, a pattern consistent almost worldwide. Such also slows population growth.

Bob Dole won a majority of Asians in 1996 -- when political attitudes among Asian-Americans were different. Notably, anti-communism was commonplace among Chinese-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, and Korean-Americans who had cause for disdain among such ethnic groups. (Such was rare among Japanese-Americans who rarely saw a country to which they had attachments under threat from or under rule of Communists). Anti-communism was long an appeal of the Republican Party. The People's Republic of China and to a lesser extent Vietnam have simply become huge trading partners while abandoning all calls for Socialist Revolution anywhere. Although Korean-Americans still have cause to hold anti-Communist views such are directed at the insane and virulent regime of the Kim dynasty which is now a pariah to just about everyone, including liberals.         

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It's not so much a demographic miracle for Democrats as a failure of Republicans to offer an alternative to the Democratic Party. Had they shown themselves for the advocates for superstition, plutocracy, and militarism that they are instead of people concerned only about budget deficits and spending gone too far they would have lost. In 2012 they had net losses in the Senate and lost a majority of the House vote (although holding onto the House of representatives through gerrymandering in state legislatures). They hid their sharp-right turn and their Machiavellian practices until they got into office, and then they obeyed the economic elites who bankrolled them into power.

Many also said that 2012 would give an intensification of Republican gains with plenty of Senate seats held by incumbent Democrats with few incumbent Republicans at risk -- and an unpopular President who had no chance of being re-elected.

Two contradictory realities will apply in 2014. First, as a midterm election, 2014 offers as a rule a smaller electorate than the typical electorate of a Presidential year. Older voters are more likely to vote, and the older voters are now much more likely to be 'conservatives' (Republicans) than liberals or moderates (Democrats). The other is that Americans will have four years experience with Republicans of the Tea Party era and may not like those pols so much. Many are going to win or lose on their records, and politicians who serve out-of-district interests at the expense of their constituents can still face opposition.

Gerrymandering in 2011 has left such states as Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a preponderance of R+4 districts (which ordinarily fits slightly-conservative pols)  with representatives who fit roughly an R+40 agenda (a Gilded-Age agenda or even clericofascism); moderate Democrats could knock some more of those pols off.

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Anti-intellectualism loses middle-class blacks, Asians, and Hispanics and nearly half of middle-class whites who attribute their economic successes largely to formal education. The difference between the non-white and non-Anglo groups with whites is that although poor blacks, Asians, and Hispanics respect the middle classes of their groups, poor whites do not. Poor whites find the anti-intellectualism of the GOP comforting, and they generally know that they have little to gain from liberalism and believe that they have little to lose from the super-rich squeezing the middle class into oblivion. Poor whites are much more likely to be religious fundamentalists who accept Pie-in-the-Sky-When-You-Die as a huge reward for putting up with poverty and brutal management in This World. At least for now.  The Mountain and Deep South which have the "Lil' Abner" and Tobacco Road types have alternated between anti-capitalist, Big Government populism and racist conservatism. If they ever vote with poor blacks who share much the same hardships then the South would become a disaster for the Hard Right.

I cannot predict when that will happen, but in 1980 Jimmy Carter barely lost Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky and won Georgia and West Virginia.  He got crushed in some current swing states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Virginia). Go figure.           
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« Reply #40 on: December 28, 2012, 06:42:17 PM »
« Edited: December 28, 2012, 06:48:04 PM by hopper »

Because demographics are against the Republican Party.  They seem to be actively attempting to purge everyone from the party that isn't a white christian, and with demographic trends being what they are, that is a recipe for disaster.  "Small town America" has been paved over by suburban housing developers and populated with emigrants from around the country.  The Atlantic coast is trending D, potentially leaving the Republicans with only the sparse electoral votes of Appalachia and the Plains states.

A lot of Democrats take the 'demographics will kill the GOP' line as an article of faith, but it's really not born out by the numbers. First off, Republicans only win slightly more than 60% of the white vote -- there's plenty of opportunity for expansion there. Second off, generally moderately well-off Hispanics are no less or more likely to vote Republican than their white counterparts (African-Americans vote more unanimously Democratic) -- the reason they seem to vote disproportionately Democratic is that many of them are urban poor, who obviously vote Democratic. Even now, Hispanics are underrated as a swing demographic; Bill Clinton in 1996 broke 70%, Obama was somewhere in the 60s with Hispanics, but Bush in 2004 lost  in the high single-digits -- and while it's still a loss, there's a big difference between more than 70% and high single-digits.

The difference between Hispanics in 2004 and Hispanics in 2008 was that Dubya seduced them politically with easy credit for buying real estate, if at ruinous terms for all involved and that in 2008 John McCain could not dare offer that because the "Ownership Society" of Dubya became a catastrophic failure. Mexican-Americans buy into housing at lower levels of income than almost any other ethnic group, and when they bought into the corrupt boom they got burned as no other ethnic group got burned.

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100,000 net immigrants in an identifiable group of 40 million people has a bigger significance than 100,000 net immigrants into a population of 4 million people. One group has more rapid growth in proportion to its numbers than the other despite the same number of people joining it. Birth rates are falling for Hispanics as they achieve middle-income occupations, a pattern consistent almost worldwide. Such also slows population growth.

Bob Dole won a majority of Asians in 1996 -- when political attitudes among Asian-Americans were different. Notably, anti-communism was commonplace among Chinese-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, and Korean-Americans who had cause for disdain among such ethnic groups. (Such was rare among Japanese-Americans who rarely saw a country to which they had attachments under threat from or under rule of Communists). Anti-communism was long an appeal of the Republican Party. The People's Republic of China and to a lesser extent Vietnam have simply become huge trading partners while abandoning all calls for Socialist Revolution anywhere. Although Korean-Americans still have cause to hold anti-Communist views such are directed at the insane and virulent regime of the Kim dynasty which is now a pariah to just about everyone, including liberals.          

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It's not so much a demographic miracle for Democrats as a failure of Republicans to offer an alternative to the Democratic Party. Had they shown themselves for the advocates for superstition, plutocracy, and militarism that they are instead of people concerned only about budget deficits and spending gone too far they would have lost. In 2012 they had net losses in the Senate and lost a majority of the House vote (although holding onto the House of representatives through gerrymandering in state legislatures). They hid their sharp-right turn and their Machiavellian practices until they got into office, and then they obeyed the economic elites who bankrolled them into power.

Many also said that 2012 would give an intensification of Republican gains with plenty of Senate seats held by incumbent Democrats with few incumbent Republicans at risk -- and an unpopular President who had no chance of being re-elected.

Two contradictory realities will apply in 2014. First, as a midterm election, 2014 offers as a rule a smaller electorate than the typical electorate of a Presidential year. Older voters are more likely to vote, and the older voters are now much more likely to be 'conservatives' (Republicans) than liberals or moderates (Democrats). The other is that Americans will have four years experience with Republicans of the Tea Party era and may not like those pols so much. Many are going to win or lose on their records, and politicians who serve out-of-district interests at the expense of their constituents can still face opposition.

Gerrymandering in 2011 has left such states as Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a preponderance of R+4 districts (which ordinarily fits slightly-conservative pols)  with representatives who fit roughly an R+40 agenda (a Gilded-Age agenda or even clericofascism); moderate Democrats could knock some more of those pols off.

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Anti-intellectualism loses middle-class blacks, Asians, and Hispanics and nearly half of middle-class whites who attribute their economic successes largely to formal education. The difference between the non-white and non-Anglo groups with whites is that although poor blacks, Asians, and Hispanics respect the middle classes of their groups, poor whites do not. Poor whites find the anti-intellectualism of the GOP comforting, and they generally know that they have little to gain from liberalism and believe that they have little to lose from the super-rich squeezing the middle class into oblivion. Poor whites are much more likely to be religious fundamentalists who accept Pie-in-the-Sky-When-You-Die as a huge reward for putting up with poverty and brutal management in This World. At least for now.  The Mountain and Deep South which have the "Lil' Abner" and Tobacco Road types have alternated between anti-capitalist, Big Government populism and racist conservatism. If they ever vote with poor blacks who share much the same hardships then the South would become a disaster for the Hard Right.

I cannot predict when that will happen, but in 1980 Jimmy Carter barely lost Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky and won Georgia and West Virginia.  He got crushed in some current swing states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Virginia). Go figure.          
Bankrolled them(the Tea Party Politicians) into power? Don't Obama and the Dems obey the Unions, Environmentalists, Leaders in the Black Community, and the academics? I would not imply that the Dems hands are clean in terms of interests groups either. Far from it just look at Chrysler bondholders getting screwed, Solyndra, and Big Pharma having a big influence in the Health Care Bill which only 1 Republican voted for(Joseph Cao R-LA.)

Yes the GOP Tea Party Types hid their extremism on stuff like taxes, and abortion. I agree with you there.

George W. Bushall by himself eased credit for more Hispanics to get a house? Jimmy Carter and especially Bill Clinton had some to do with that. Remember the repeal of Glass Stegall in 1999? Maxine Waters and Barney Frank had their hands in the housing crisis too. Was W. to blame? I would say about 50% but I blame the Dems for the other 50%.
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« Reply #41 on: January 01, 2013, 12:19:46 PM »

Because demographics are against the Republican Party.  They seem to be actively attempting to purge everyone from the party that isn't a white christian, and with demographic trends being what they are, that is a recipe for disaster.  "Small town America" has been paved over by suburban housing developers and populated with emigrants from around the country.  The Atlantic coast is trending D, potentially leaving the Republicans with only the sparse electoral votes of Appalachia and the Plains states.

A lot of Democrats take the 'demographics will kill the GOP' line as an article of faith, but it's really not born out by the numbers. First off, Republicans only win slightly more than 60% of the white vote -- there's plenty of opportunity for expansion there. Second off, generally moderately well-off Hispanics are no less or more likely to vote Republican than their white counterparts (African-Americans vote more unanimously Democratic) -- the reason they seem to vote disproportionately Democratic is that many of them are urban poor, who obviously vote Democratic. Even now, Hispanics are underrated as a swing demographic; Bill Clinton in 1996 broke 70%, Obama was somewhere in the 60s with Hispanics, but Bush in 2004 lost  in the high single-digits -- and while it's still a loss, there's a big difference between more than 70% and high single-digits.

The difference between Hispanics in 2004 and Hispanics in 2008 was that Dubya seduced them politically with easy credit for buying real estate, if at ruinous terms for all involved and that in 2008 John McCain could not dare offer that because the "Ownership Society" of Dubya became a catastrophic failure. Mexican-Americans buy into housing at lower levels of income than almost any other ethnic group, and when they bought into the corrupt boom they got burned as no other ethnic group got burned.

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100,000 net immigrants in an identifiable group of 40 million people has a bigger significance than 100,000 net immigrants into a population of 4 million people. One group has more rapid growth in proportion to its numbers than the other despite the same number of people joining it. Birth rates are falling for Hispanics as they achieve middle-income occupations, a pattern consistent almost worldwide. Such also slows population growth.

Bob Dole won a majority of Asians in 1996 -- when political attitudes among Asian-Americans were different. Notably, anti-communism was commonplace among Chinese-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, and Korean-Americans who had cause for disdain among such ethnic groups. (Such was rare among Japanese-Americans who rarely saw a country to which they had attachments under threat from or under rule of Communists). Anti-communism was long an appeal of the Republican Party. The People's Republic of China and to a lesser extent Vietnam have simply become huge trading partners while abandoning all calls for Socialist Revolution anywhere. Although Korean-Americans still have cause to hold anti-Communist views such are directed at the insane and virulent regime of the Kim dynasty which is now a pariah to just about everyone, including liberals.          

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It's not so much a demographic miracle for Democrats as a failure of Republicans to offer an alternative to the Democratic Party. Had they shown themselves for the advocates for superstition, plutocracy, and militarism that they are instead of people concerned only about budget deficits and spending gone too far they would have lost. In 2012 they had net losses in the Senate and lost a majority of the House vote (although holding onto the House of representatives through gerrymandering in state legislatures). They hid their sharp-right turn and their Machiavellian practices until they got into office, and then they obeyed the economic elites who bankrolled them into power.

Many also said that 2012 would give an intensification of Republican gains with plenty of Senate seats held by incumbent Democrats with few incumbent Republicans at risk -- and an unpopular President who had no chance of being re-elected.

Two contradictory realities will apply in 2014. First, as a midterm election, 2014 offers as a rule a smaller electorate than the typical electorate of a Presidential year. Older voters are more likely to vote, and the older voters are now much more likely to be 'conservatives' (Republicans) than liberals or moderates (Democrats). The other is that Americans will have four years experience with Republicans of the Tea Party era and may not like those pols so much. Many are going to win or lose on their records, and politicians who serve out-of-district interests at the expense of their constituents can still face opposition.

Gerrymandering in 2011 has left such states as Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a preponderance of R+4 districts (which ordinarily fits slightly-conservative pols)  with representatives who fit roughly an R+40 agenda (a Gilded-Age agenda or even clericofascism); moderate Democrats could knock some more of those pols off.

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Anti-intellectualism loses middle-class blacks, Asians, and Hispanics and nearly half of middle-class whites who attribute their economic successes largely to formal education. The difference between the non-white and non-Anglo groups with whites is that although poor blacks, Asians, and Hispanics respect the middle classes of their groups, poor whites do not. Poor whites find the anti-intellectualism of the GOP comforting, and they generally know that they have little to gain from liberalism and believe that they have little to lose from the super-rich squeezing the middle class into oblivion. Poor whites are much more likely to be religious fundamentalists who accept Pie-in-the-Sky-When-You-Die as a huge reward for putting up with poverty and brutal management in This World. At least for now.  The Mountain and Deep South which have the "Lil' Abner" and Tobacco Road types have alternated between anti-capitalist, Big Government populism and racist conservatism. If they ever vote with poor blacks who share much the same hardships then the South would become a disaster for the Hard Right.

I cannot predict when that will happen, but in 1980 Jimmy Carter barely lost Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky and won Georgia and West Virginia.  He got crushed in some current swing states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Virginia). Go figure.          
Bankrolled them(the Tea Party Politicians) into power? Don't Obama and the Dems obey the Unions, Environmentalists, Leaders in the Black Community, and the academics? I would not imply that the Dems hands are clean in terms of interests groups either. Far from it just look at Chrysler bondholders getting screwed, Solyndra, and Big Pharma having a big influence in the Health Care Bill which only 1 Republican voted for(Joseph Cao R-LA.)

Yes the GOP Tea Party Types hid their extremism on stuff like taxes, and abortion. I agree with you there.

George W. Bushall by himself eased credit for more Hispanics to get a house? Jimmy Carter and especially Bill Clinton had some to do with that. Remember the repeal of Glass Stegall in 1999? Maxine Waters and Barney Frank had their hands in the housing crisis too. Was W. to blame? I would say about 50% but I blame the Dems for the other 50%.

On a side note though. I heard about what Carter and Clinton did about the Mortgage Industry but was it really their fault? Perhaps it wasn't their first choice in policy and that they were basically trying to give people with modest livings  a chance at owning their own home but in the only way the needed Republican and Dixiecrat votes  would agree to?
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