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TX could become purple by 2020 or 2024 unless the GOP really acts quickly.
I doubt this very much.
TX could become purple by 2020 or 2024 unless the GOP really acts quickly.
I doubt this very much.
Name recognition = electability. We're well on our way to a Bieber/Kardashian ticket.When she's not appointing her untrained donors to TSC nuclear advisory boards, Hillary's storing drone program(!!!!) emails on her home server.
One of these people is going to be President?
I doubt this very much.
TX could become purple by 2020 or 2024 unless the GOP really acts quickly.
That's an interesting position. The Tea Party and Trump waves have caused the GOP to lurch hard to the right. Are you suggesting they don't need to course-correct back to a more center-right disposition because it would equate to "moving left"?
Rather than uniting the party, shouldn't the goal be for the party to evolve the way the national electorate has evolved (i.e. the post-2012 stated objective)? Or do you suppose that a united GOP focused on their traditional platform positions will still appeal to the 2018/2020 American populace?
If Paul Ryan (and thus, Mitt Romney) is that kind of politician, why did they lose so handily in 2012?
Latino math for the GOP:
Currently purple, trending blue: CO (9), NV (6), NM (5) = 20
Currently red, trending purple: AZ (11)
Red: TX (38)
Total: 69
Gotta stop the bleeding or sweep the Rust Belt:
Currently blue: PA (20), MI (16), WI (10) = 46
Currently purple: OH (18)
Total: 64
Leaves out mega blue CA (55) and blue states with not insignificant Latino populations: WA (12) and OR (7), purple state FL (29), and purple NC (15) and VA (13) and red state GA (16) with emerging Latino populations.
Dissing Martinez didn't help, and Newt, Sessions, Christie, or Scott Brown don't offset Trump's problems with Latino voters.
This has to be bone chilling math for GOP.
This has to be bone chilling math for GOP.
A new poll showed 48% of the public think Bernie should keep running. Would love to see him run as the Green Party candidate. Of course that would probably guarantee Hillary will lose.
Do you hate immigrants?
But it's what a large number of their voters want. Undocumented immigrants, including high school valedictorians, are criminals who need to be rounded up and deported.
I think the GOP is having a problem understanding that Trump is the standard bearer for the GOP. He blew away the field mainstream Republicans wee so excited about.