rlev1223
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Thu Nov-04-04 06:01 PM
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I've posted this before, but it bears repeating.
Pat Buchanan -- regardless of what you think of him -- is relatively dispassionate when it comes to simple analysis. He says that this is the highwater mark for repubs, it's all downhill from here thanks mainly to demographics.
Repubs are aging / white -- nation is not.
Nixon and Reagan both took 49 states in their second elections -- Bush didn't get one blue state (IA still out) and lost a red one.
4 SW states will be Dem by 2008 -- CO already elected a Hispanic Dem senator and their legislature went blue this year.
My view is that culturally they are on the wrong side of history too -- their floor is also their ceiling.
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