Memo to GOP: Demography is destiny
Having watched the two national party conventions, I will venture to make a controversial prediction:
The future of America looks like the people seated at the Democratic National Convention. America’s past -- or at least the gauzy idealization of it that some hold dear -- resembles the racial and ethnic makeup of the crowd gathered at the Republican National Convention.
Forget the pundits, the surrogates and the spin-doctors blathering about which party’s message will hit home with voters or whether we’re better off than we were four years ago.
From the perspective of millions of Americans who watched the conventions on television, the difference between the parties was striking. At the Democratic convention, the higher range of diversity was genuine, not scripted. No one was strategically placing a few people of darker hues within range of the camera, or drafting them to stand on stage and give a hearty handshake to a candidate.
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