Reply #11: It's sustainable [View All]

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Democrats have been losing whites since 1964 and we seem to be doing just fine.

Young voters will likely stay with the Democratic party, they are much more liberal than other generations.

Obama made major inroads across the country. He got 47% of the vote in Montana, 47% in Georgia, and even 44% in Texas. He also did way better than any Democrat has in states such as Utah and North Dakota. Obama got more votes than Kerry in 78% of the counties in the country and we won an electoral vote in freaking Nebraska. As of now, the GOP is largely confined to the deep South and the plains states. Yeah, we did worse in AR, TN, and LA but Lousiana has lost thousands of Democratic voters since Katrina and as for the others, well, we can't win them all. I'll point out that Obama won the biggest victory of any candidate in California in decades. He did even better than Reagan in 1984. in that state. He also got 60% or more in CA, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, DE, MD, DC, HI, and IL.

And I can assure you that VA and NC are not true red states anymore. Demographic chances are helping the Democrats in those states and indeed nationally. The minority population is only going to increase until we are a majority minority country. Gay marriage will lose its potency as more and more young people become eligible to vote. And regarding Latinos, the GOP will lose their votes as long as they remain virulently xenophobic. I don't see that happening in four years.