One more reason they lost: They are, literally, a dying breed.

[cali]

Old white republicans are dying off and not being replaced.

[Buddaman]

1. I think your right....

Repubs don't know what to believe any more.....

[brewens]

2. Oh! I just realized today is cranky old right-wing lady day at work! One of our volunteers.

I really love her but can't wait to hear what she thinks about Obama being re-elected! She gets her "information" from Newsmax.

I may be going to far describing her as "right-wing". She's retired union and a big union supporter but hates Obama. She's not a full-on supporter of all right-wing issues. The main part of her career was as a nurse at a paper mill.

There is the slightest chance she may surprise me. I really didn't hear her say much leading up to the election. I suspect she did not like Romney. If someone got to her on social security or medicare, she may have changed her tune. Usually you talk to her and think you got through, then she gets back to her Newsmax and friends and erases everything.

[City Lights]

3. Their extinction can't come soon enough for me!

Good riddance to their lot!

[jschurchin]

4. They are being replaced cali.

Their problem is that they are being replaced by young hispanics, african americans, gay men and women and open minded white people.
And they have no clue on how to communicate with these groups effectively. As long as the fundamental christians and tea baggers are influencing the republican leadership, they have no chance.

[cali]

5. uh, what?? I don't think I was that obscure.

Old white republicans are not being replaced.

[jschurchin]

8. Perhaps it is me who is being obscure.

My point being the electorate is shifting. Make no mistake, they are being replaced by progressive Americans. This is the Republican party downfall.

[Romulox]

6. The Republicans of my youth live on. Many have switched parties, but the NE blue bloods are doing

fine, for example.

[efhmc]

7. Unfortunately it is the opposite case in many counties in Texas.

The only young people who are progressive get the heck out of these backwaters and go elsewhere and the ringwingers grow stronger.

[Fumesucker]

9. Bigotry is always popular

The target of the bigotry may change with the identity of the bigot but bigotry will remain with us and continue to be used as a political tool in the future.

If the economy seriously crashes for whatever reason you can expect to see a huge resurgence of bigotry, people for the most part vote their wallets.