Don't have time to read through every post (I suspect there's a lot of arguing), but race is not the only factor. The current GOP is out of touch with too many demographics. Young people are actually starting to turn out now too, and the GOP gets wiped out with them. The GOP got beaten by women and wiped out by educated, professional women, and that's a growing demographic. Then the GOP got wiped out by Hispanics and of course African-Americans. Then there's the nation's leftward movement socially and culturally, and the GOP largely gets beaten by people who regard this stuff as at least important.
Fox Noise and O'Reilly largely run gimmicks; setting that aside, there is no way that all of these demographics merely consist of people with a hand out wanting freebies. The nation is really changing, and as we see when nations change, they change relatively quickly. I think the GOP has to get with it.
Nah, the youth vote only came out for a personality like Obama. The youth vote won't come out for John Kerry, O'Malley, or Hillary. They are boring white people with bland personalities that don't appeal to the People Magazine/ET audience. Youth voters were energized by Obama's young age and mastery of 'pop-culture.' He is the multi-racial JFK icon of a generation. Its rare that Obama won by exclusively appealing to Blacks, HIspanics, and single women; while losing the largest share of white voters since Reagan. The Liberal media won't drool over Hillary or O'Malley like they have over the great multi-racial Hope Obama. There won't be as much peer GOTV pressure for Hillary.
Besides Jeb Bush has a Mexican Wife. He's the next great Latin Hope to sell to the Liberal Media.
