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The Ice Age Cometh
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Jun 12, 2009 12:32pm |
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Category | Analysis |
Author | Mike Murphy |
Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
News Date | Monday, June 22, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback. My answer disappoints them: "Build an ark."
I say this because I've made a career out of counting votes, and the numbers tell a clear story; the demographics of America are changing in a way that is deadly for the Republican Party as it exists today. A GOP ice age is on the way.
Demographic change is irritating to politicos, since it works on elections much as rigged dice do on a Las Vegas craps table: it is a game changer. For years, Republicans won elections because the country was chock-full of white middle-class voters who mostly pulled the GOP lever on Election Day. Today, however, that formula is no longer enough. |
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