What will make the Pacific Northwest trend GOP?

[5280]

What kind of policies should the GOP do for the pacific northwest to trend GOP? As of right now, current trends don't last a lifetime and I'm sure if the GOP wants to survive as a party, they will have to adapt and make an effort to get their votes.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Probably moderate their social views in order to become more libertarian.

[Blue3]

That would only happen not as a result of GOP policy changes, but of Democratic party changes.

For example, if one of the more radical and incendiary BLM protesters eventually became the Democratic nominee. Washington and Oregon are mostly white, and Oregon actually banned black people from living there until the 1930's or around there. As a result, while white liberals from there may be sympathetic to the BLM movement up to a point it really has no base there. I think a Democratic candidate who really embraced and stood for only the fringe of the BLM movement somehow became nominee, and those were his defining issues, then if the Republicans would only have to run something like the Romney/Ryan and they would probably win Washington & Oregon.

[evergreenarbor]

The Republicans would have to move pretty far to the left on social issues. From my experience, voters in the western parts of Oregon and Washington, where the majority of the population lives, generally care more about social issues than they do about economic policy.

Alternatively, they could nominate a very moderate candidate (e.g. Pataki) while the Democrats nominated a very poor candidate (e.g. Chafee).

[IceSpear]

https://youtu.be/Lu5SJcNp0J0?t=10s

[Figueira]

Maybe if the entire country started routinely voting 60% Democratic, but Washington and Oregon stayed where they are.

[Xing]

The parties would have to massively change their platforms. The current Republican Party has no chance here.

[UWS]

Maybe a Rubio/Haley ticket could flip the Washington state from blue to red in 2020 since 11,2 % of this state's population is Hispanic and 7,2 % of this state's population is Asian-American.

[evergreenarbor]

Rubio is much too conservative to win Washington.

[hopper]

Rubio is much too conservative to win Washington.

Is Rubio really that much more conservative than say Dino Rossi is? Rossi ran for Governor of Washington in 2004 and nearly won.

Still Seattle along with the rest of the Northwest Corner of the State is Pretty D now I think or has been trending that way that past couple of Presidential Cycles.

[evergreenarbor]

Rossi nearly won in 2004, but in that same year Bush lost Washington by 7 percentage points while winning nationwide.

Republican gubernatorial candidates tend to outperform Republican presidential candidates in Washington. Also, Washington has trended more Democratic since 2004, and it continues to do so - the most liberal counties in the state also tend to be the fastest-growing.

[cwt]

The GOP's best hope here is that Mt. Rainier erupts and completely wipes out Seattle.

[evergreenarbor]

The GOP's best hope here is that Mt. Rainier erupts and completely wipes out Seattle.

Nah, Seattle won't be that badly affected if Mt. Rainier erupts. It's the areas *south* of Seattle that will have real trouble if that happens:



The GOP's real best hope is for that 9.0 earthquake to hit.

[Blue3]

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