What, exactly, is the spin? Are you not paying attention to the demographic breakdown of this past election?
I mean - I've seen it said sometimes that the Republican Party isn't "doomed" by the growth of the Hispanic population or its inability to attract more of the women or youth votes, because the Republican Party will at some point shift to capture enough of that population to survive. Like it's a kind of self-correcting equilibrium. That might well happen, but you have to acknowledge it's not going to happen by becoming more "conservative," like you recommend.
Or maybe you think it's "spin" because you believe the Republicans can win indefinitely by just appealing to the white men who consistently break for them. Become more conservative, get more of them to turn out. Though you'd denied that was the underlying rationale behind your more-conservative recommendation, elsewhere.
Well, I dunno. I think you're making it up as you go along.
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Date: 10/11/12 16:18 (UTC)I mean - I've seen it said sometimes that the Republican Party isn't "doomed" by the growth of the Hispanic population or its inability to attract more of the women or youth votes, because the Republican Party will at some point shift to capture enough of that population to survive. Like it's a kind of self-correcting equilibrium. That might well happen, but you have to acknowledge it's not going to happen by becoming more "conservative," like you recommend.
Or maybe you think it's "spin" because you believe the Republicans can win indefinitely by just appealing to the white men who consistently break for them. Become more conservative, get more of them to turn out. Though you'd denied that was the underlying rationale behind your more-conservative recommendation, elsewhere.
Well, I dunno. I think you're making it up as you go along.