RNC Growth and Opportunity Project Final Report

[brooklynite]

Source: Scribid

The GOP today is a tale of two parties. One of them, the gubernatorial wing, is growing and successful. The other, the Federal wing, is increasingly marginalizing itself, and unless changes are made, it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another presidential election in the near future.

Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. States in which our presidential candidates used to win, such as New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada,Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Florida, are increasingly voting Democratic. We are losing in too many places.

It has reached the point where in the past six presidential elections, four have gone to the Democratic nominee, at an average yield of 327 electoral votes to 211 for the Republican.During the preceding two decades, From 1968 to 1988, Republicans won five out of six elections, averaging 417 electoral votes to Democrats’ 113.

Public perception of the Party is at record lows. Young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the Party represents, and many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country. When someone rolls their eyes at us, they are not likely to open their ears to us.

Read more: http://www.scribd.com/doc/130960510/Growth-Opportunity-Project

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The very fact that the first chapter is on "messaging" tells me they haven't quite figured out what the problem is. Reading through the entire document, while references are made to immigration reform (in the Chapter on Hispanics), there is no reference to "contraception" or "marriage" (as in "equality&quot .

[Dryvinwhileblind]

1. "The GOP today is a tale"

'nuff said.

[Berlum]

2. "We are evil and we suck." - RNC Truth Squad

[Myrina]

3. Oh, they know what the problem is, they just don't plan to change their views ...

... so instead they have to come up with a slick marketing package to get the Sheep to buy in to their shit-sandwich rather than actually navel-gaze and consider they might be out of step with the rest of humanity ...

[John2]

4. The states they

claim that they use to win in have several glaring problems which can be identified. Iowa,New Hampshire and Ohio are not right wing states that identified with the South. Those States were always swing States. The main message of the Republican party has shifted to wards the States' Rights ideology in the South. The other glaring problems with those other States are Demographics. That includes New Mexico,Nevada,Colorado, Florida and even Virginia. And a state like North Carolina is moving to wards a swing state because of Demographics as will probably Texas and Arizona in the near future. Apparently the GOP has given up on African Americans but I suggest Hispanics are shifting just like African Americans did because of the GOP's message of intolerance. The same probably could be said for Asian Americans because of that growth. The GOP needs to move to wards a diversity strategy and listen more to the interests of these groups. Race does not matter, you need to speak to wards their interests. Rubio might be a Cuban American, but he doesn't speak for the interests of all Hispanics. He speaks more for the interests of people like Rush Limbaugh. Tokenism don't get it done.