Who can rethugs alienate next?

[Hawaii Hiker]

Since Nixcn's Southern Strategy, republicans lost the African-American vote for a lifetime....The Hispanic vote, which already leaned democratic, will probably REALLY be strong for Obama in 2012 as who denied a vote on the Dream Act, the repubs....With this, http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/?rc=fb repubs are going to get demolished in the female vote....Now, they're going after unions, a strong voting block esp. in states like PA, OH, MI, WI...

Whose vote can the republicans lose next?....

I guess repubs. will always have the Archie Bunker types on their side, that's about it...

[Skittles]

1. in the end they'll get around to everyone

[Arkana]

2. Going after unions will kill them dead in the Rust Belt.

If this keeps up I would wager we'll win PA by a larger margin than we did in '08, and we might even have a good shot in Ohio too.

[shanti]

3. the bigger question to me

is why are they doing this? they are going for broke like it doesn't matter. :shrug:

[midnight armadillo]

5. Because it doesn't matter

Citizens United. Just wait for the torrent of money to be unleashed in 2012. If money doesn't do it, hired thugs will.

[Hawaii Hiker]

6. That's true...The present day Archie Bunker's they have

ie; the Koch Brothers, are Archie Bunker's with w/5 billion $$...

[Hawaii Hiker]

8. Yeah, they'll be able to throw tons of money around, but

as Meg Whitman proved last Nov., if people despise you enough, they'll never vote for you no matter how much you spend...

Whitman spent $165 million to lose by 13%......

[midnight armadillo]

12. Which is what the thugs are for

what, you don't think there are Americans who'll happily kick the shit out of demonstrators or campaign workers for some quick cash?

[jillan]

4. But they will always have Citizens United, and that is all they need.

[lonestarnot]

7. Not if we get rid of their two in the pocket SCOTUS judges by throwing their connected asses from

the bench. Diligent work needs to continue to expose and educate re their monied connection.

[Populist_Prole]

9. They're echo chamber dorks who think everybody thinks like they do

They know what's what. Just ask 'em. :tinfoilhat:

[Alcibiades]

10. The elderly

Older white voters have been the only demo they have done well with outside the south. They scared them into action in 2010, claiming that Health Care Reform would lead to rationing of medical care for seniors.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTS6c-O5iEEWR1VOjMwkPTqfqyHSOsis6C3_DPbrkVbvxn2Yi8M

It worked, and older white voters turned out in droves to vote for whatever crazy-ass Republican made it through the primary. The first thing on the agenda, other than 18 anti-abortion bills, was this:

INSTITUTING RATIONING FOR MEDICARE.

Older voters ought to be wise enough not to have fallen for this shit. Many did not, but enough did (a couple hundred thousand nationwide, enough to swing the close ones) that we got a Republican House.

But the national media will dare not call a death panel a death panel, now that it's a GOP death panel.

ON EDIT: I seem to not be the only person on whom this apparent irony is not lost.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/20/947628/-The-Republican-Betrayal-of-the-Elderly-Begins

[sufrommich]

11. It looks like they're going for the "those of us who would

appreciate knowing if we've got killer weather coming our way in advance" demographic:

http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/18/gop-cuts-noaa-satellite-weather-forecasting-and-hurricane-tracking/

[Skip_In_Boulder]

13. Yeah but the problem with the Archie Bunker types

Is that they consistently vote year end and year out.

[tblue37]

14. Won't matter--as long as they don't alienate the folks who own the proprietary

software that counts our votes. Those guys' "votes" are the only votes that really count.

[Tx4obama]

15. CPAC disallowing any group that supports DADT repeal and/or gay marriage n/t

Groups supporting ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal or gay marriage will no longer be allowed to participate at CPAC

Al Cardenas, the new chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), announced on CSPAN Wednesday that his organization, which hosts the annual CPAC event, will now vet organizations before allowing them to participate.

The statement hints that gay conservative organization GOProud, a group whose participation infuriated social conservatives, and other groups determined insufficiently conservative by the ACU may not be welcome at next year’s 2012 CPAC.

Cardenas said that groups advocating for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” or supporting gay marriage would not be welcome.

“If you are a group, and this has got nothing to do with your orientation,” said Cardenes, “of straight couples, and you advocate gay marriage, that’s not within the scope of what we believe the three legs of the stool of the movement are.”

Full article here: http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/18/groups-supporting-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-or-gay-marriage-will-no-longer-be-allowed-to-participate-at-cpac/

[rhett o rick]

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