Will the Republican Party lose the South, West, and Midwest?

[Ardent15]

States like Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia. etc are in need of money from the federal government. Also, the hunters and gun nuts in the West, Midwest, and South won't be able to hunt anymore if the Republicans continue on their path of destroying the environment.

You think people in these areas will come to their senses and realize the Republicans only care about Wall Street, not Main Street?

[MNDemNY]

1. Maybe, but it seems they are winning big in DC!!!!

[AlinPA]

15. They sure control the senate.

[MNDemNY]

21. And they seem to have a foothold in the W.H., still.

[YOY]

2. They don't even care about Wall Street.

They care about people who work on Wall Street executive offices and boardrooms and vacation in the Hamptons.

[Ardent15]

5. Truth

They care about the elite of Wall Street.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. ...

[Uzybone]

4. They will be reduced to the deep south and Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

[Ardent15]

8. The deep South has an increasingly big minority population

It's going to go blue, or at least parts of it will.

[harun]

6. I think they will still be strong in OK, UT and Hell.

[Donnachaidh]

7. they won't lose the south

The folks down here are raised on voting against their own best interests. It's *tradition* y'all. :eyes:

[BOSSHOG]

9. Don't expect Mississippi turning blue

These people just love their ignorance and hate the evil federal government. They don't need no stinking socialist aid.

[Ardent15]

10. maybe you're right

but let's try to be a bit more optimistic.

[Glorfindel]

11. Sadly, you're right

As a hillbilly from the mountains of north Georgia, I thought I knew everything there was to know about racism and ignorance. Then I moved to Mississippi.

[BOSSHOG]

13. Same here My Friend

The price of Real Estate has been good here as well as the cost of living, my wife has a great job. BUT. I thought my old home state of Arkansas was backward but it is Massachusettsesque compared to the Magnolia State.

[merh]

17. I've already heard old repubs complaining about the choice

for the RNC chair - maybe that's why Haley put his nephew Henry on Steele's team, to try to steal up support.

[KamaAina]

12. The West is already gone!

CA, HI, OR, WA, and now NV, CO and NM: all Blue. MT: 2 Dem senators and a Dem governor.

That leaves them with a tiny (by Western standards) pocket of ID, WY, UT and AZ, with the latter increasingly in play as long as there isn't another favorite-son candidate.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. They won't lose anything for long unless we take the media and the pulpits from them.

[AlinPA]

16. They totally control the media. We are getting slaughtered with the problems

with the cabinet selections.

[FiveGoodMen]

20. Last night I heard, "Will these cabinet problems hurt Obama's presidency?"

I forget which channel.

There's absolutely no reason to go on the air with such an unanswerable question unless you want to plant that very seed in people's minds.

The US news is a wholly owned subsidiary of hell.

[Ozymanithrax]

18. No!

The southern upper class and white lower class are not going to suddenly find enlightenment. Conservative politics sits in the same part of the brain as religion. Republicans crafted a message that appeals to this people, and what Republicans do in power will soon be forgotten. Right now, Bush is being thrown under the bus by every conservative, labeled as a traitor to his ideology. I suspect the time is coming when Bush will be labeled ad Democrat President by Fox.

I suspect they will remain entrenched in the South and be competitive in the West and Midwest because people will believe it when they are told what they want to here. Packing is everything.

[RJ Connors]

19. Not a chance. When it does happen

They will blame it Obama or the Clintons.