Why 2016 could be shattering for Republicans

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Why 2016 could be shattering for Republicans

by Stanley B. Greenberg at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-2016-could-be-shattering-for-republicans/2015/11/13/fae603dc-88b0-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

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The United States is emerging out of its revolutions as racially blended, immigrant, multinational and multilingual — and diversity is becoming more central to our multicultural identity.

Further, these revolutionary transformations have accelerated the growth of a new majority coalition of racial minorities, single women, millennials and seculars. Together, these groups formed 51 percent of the electorate in 2012, but our analysis of census survey data and exit poll projections indicates that they will comprise fully 63 percent in 2016. With these growing groups each supporting Hillary Clinton by more than 2 to 1 in today’s polls, it is fair to say that the United States has reached an electoral tipping point.

The Republican Party’s battle to defeat this new majority has reached a tipping point, too. The brand of the Republican Party today has probably not been as tarnished since the Watergate era.

Republicans have joined a ferocious and intensifying decade-long counterrevolution in an attempt to stop this new majority from governing successfully. In 2004, George W. Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove launched the battle for American values when he gave up on the so-called swing voter and worked to engage millions more evangelicals. That has required pouring ever more fuel on the fire — including warning of Armageddon if the liberal Democrats were to govern.



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[kimbutgar]

1. The voting process has got to be unhackable otherwise the 63% majority is meaningless

And large numbers need to vote to turn out the rethugs.

Those electronic voting machines are a big problem.

[Triana]

4. Yep. Voter suppression & gerrymandering hack off that 63% and then some. n/t

[TheProgressive]

2. First off, if Clinton is the Dem nominee,...

she will be defeated...

Republicans will not vote for Clinton. And so goes the down ticket items.

Sanders as the nominee, on the other hand, will win and more Dems will be elected.

[Chitown Kev]

5. But the Republicans will still

have to turn blue states red in 2016.

Name the states that Obama won in 2012 that the Republicans can flip if Clinton is the nominee.

[X_Digger]

3. One can only hope.

Now, keep fighting egregious hoops to jump through to vote, fight ballot issues designed to boost turnout for the old white straight men (or raise our own), and gerrymandering, and we're good to go.