2016 Postmortem
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The Sailer Strategy is a Republican strategy that focuses on getting a larger and larger share of the white vote in succeeding elections to compensate for the fact that it is becoming a smaller and smaller share of the electorate.
Anthony McCarthy
(507 posts)given demographics it would drive Republicans into extinction. And I don't think there's much of a liklihood of them risking their racist base for the small percentage of dupes it might get them. They've painted themselves into a corner.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)PsychProfessor
(204 posts)There will be voices in the republican party who wish to reach out to other demographics but I fear they will be dismissed. In fact, there will be those who will argue Romney wasn't tough enough and that he did not truly radicalize and mobilize his "white" base. Sadly. I think they have a ways to go before they learn this lesson.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)For everyone else, the sailer strategy is simply: the republican party should give up on everyone except angry white people. It is Nixon's pitch made explicit and hyped up on 'roids. It is "fuck it we really are the White Power Party".
Thanks.
And yes that is what they are doing and have done and it is a losing game unless they really go all in on it and then we get overt fascism.
genna
(1,945 posts)Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Jonathan Martin of Politico that if we lose this election there is only one explanation demographics.
If I hear anybody say it was because Romney wasnt conservative enough Im going to go nuts, Graham said. Were not losing 95 percent of African-Americans and two-thirds of Hispanics and voters under 30 because were not being hard-ass enough.
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/sen_graham_ill_go_nuts%E2%80%9D_if_people_say_romney_wasn%E2%80%99t_conservative_enough/
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)What could have possibly given the impression the republics were going to stop lying?
If I had to make a prediction, I'd guess they're going to go full-on ultra-mega-pinocchio-zorb strategy. Keep in mind, the bigger R-money's lies, the better he did.