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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReich: GOP’s Death Wish: Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People
What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people.Its almost as if the GOP cant help itself.
Start with Hispanic voters, whose electoral heft keeps growing as they comprise an ever-larger portion of the electorate. Hispanics now favor President Obama over Romney by more than two to one, according to a recent Pew poll.
The movement of Hispanics into the Democratic camp has been going on for decades. What are Republicans doing to woo them back? Replicating California Republican Governor Pete Wilsons disastrous support almost twenty years ago for Proposition 187 which would have screened out undocumented immigrants from public schools, health care, and other social services, and required law-enforcement officials to report any suspected illegals. (Wilson, you may remember, lost that years election, and Californias Republican Party has never recovered.)
So what is the GOP doing to woo women back? Attacking them. Last February, House Republicans voted to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. Last May, they unanimously passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, banning the District of Columbia from funding abortions for low-income women. (The original version removed all exceptions rape, incest, and endangerment to a mothers life except forcible rape.)
Or, finally, consider students a significant and growing electoral force, who voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008. What are Republicans doing to woo them back? Attack them, of course.
How can a political party be so dumb as to piss off Hispanics, women, and young people? Because the core of its base is middle-aged white men and it doesnt seem to know how to satisfy its base without at the same time turning off everyone whos not white, male, and middle-aged.
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Reich: GOP’s Death Wish: Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People (Original Post)
pampango
Apr 2012
OP
Whichever party opens up the borders completely will enjoy a 100 year dynasty. nt
Snake Alchemist
Apr 2012
#3
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)1. That's why..
they are going to be swept out of office in a landslide for Dems.
tech3149
(4,452 posts)4. Don't get cockey kid!
Just when you think it's a slam dunk you may get hammered in the face. No matter how good things seem just keep your butt out there doing everything you can to fight for what you believe in.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Puleeze! Let Reich be correct!
R&
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)3. Whichever party opens up the borders completely will enjoy a 100 year dynasty. nt