With continued remarks, experts see Arizona Republican Party losing voters
With continued remarks, experts see Arizona Republican Party losing voters
https://www.abc15.com/news/state/with-continued-remarks-experts-see-arizona-republican-party-losing-voters
PHOENIX — When then-current state Representative David Stringer said "60% of public school children in the state of Arizona are minorities. That complicates racial integration because there aren't enough white kids to go around" during an appearance in 2018, it was met with outrage.
In July, state Senator Sylvia Allen warned a group about the browning of America, "we're going to look like South American countries very quickly," she said. Allen's remarks were also met with outrage.
In August, state Representative Jay Lawrence told a roomful of gun control advocates that
black and brown communities "are better armed than the police officers who are supposed to be controlling them." Later adding, "black communities in particular have gangs and gangs have to be stopped."
The series of comments may be one reason Arizona Republicans are having trouble with an important group of voters.
"It's crystal-clear the GOP is not winning with moderates," says pollster Mike Noble of OH Predictive Insights. Noble says Arizona voters are moving increasingly toward the middle, but that is not where many elected Republicans want to go.
"You're seeing a pattern here," Noble says. "All these folks making these inflammatory statements are in very safe, either rural or conservative districts, and that plays well with your base."
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Takes time. Sheriff Joe was a vicious Nazi, reelected many times.
We still lived in California in 1994. Gov. Wilson and company definitely tried to go too far in denying children especially schooling and medical care. That was on top, though, of the years of hostile actions it took to build outrage to this level of voter rejection.
California always leads the way...
Speaking of change, though, so unfortunate that the dead don't die. I see stories in the LA Times (we still take it) that suggest to me that some conservatives have gotten into power by obtaining appointments and running for office as Democrats -- their dirty ideological signature on work bearing our label. It's also a reminder that at least half, probably more, of those who identify Hispanic are naturally conservative, along with every other group.
We're now a full generation past 1994, so at least there's some benefit from Republicans elsewhere sending out these continuing lessons under their own label of what they are.
