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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepublicans’ 2016 math problem, explained in two charts
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The 2016 electorate, demographically speaking, will be worse for Republicans than 2012. And unless Republicans can begin winning more of the non-white vote, the 2020 election will be worse for the party than the 2016 election. And 2024 will be worse than, well, you get the idea."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/26/the-hard-demographic-truth-facing-republicans-in-2016-in-2-charts/
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Republicans’ 2016 math problem, explained in two charts (Original Post)
damnedifIknow
May 2015
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Gothmog
(144,921 posts)1. Great charts
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)2. I like those charts.
Even worse if my anecdotal evidence is true for a large segment of second generation and recent immigrants is that many of those who are socially conservative, they still vote for Democrats. The reason is that they think Republicans actively hate them and they are for having a safety net since many come from places that don't have that and that is what they have escaped.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)3. I'd say Republicans are basically screwed
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)4. At least by 2024
The GOP party is dying and good riddance I say.
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)6. hardly
People have done these the republicans r screwed posts here for over a decade, and they have more power today than they did then.
The stupid trancends skin color.
enough
(13,255 posts)5. All of which makes it even more puzzling why so many Democrats
in politics behave as if they aren't Democrats.