IF YOUR PARTY didnt target those groups (*ahem* and you DIDNT), then you DO have a demographic problem.
That doesn't follow.
If the GOP targets those groups, they will win more of them. It's a statistical likelihood that they'd do better as a result of that effort. It's not a demographic problem that they didn't - that makes no sense.
And it's a little naive to believe they dont pay attention to policy... if you had just "targetted" them but have policies that dont support them, then thats not enough
There's one argument I've read that some of these groups simply like bigger government. If that's indeed the case - and I'd love to see some research on it - then the GOP will have that "demographic issue" not because they're becoming "old and white" but rather because they have an ideology they don't want. Plenty of other people - a plurality-to-majority, in fact - do, so the targeting would make sense.
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Date: 10/11/12 22:44 (UTC)That doesn't follow.
If the GOP targets those groups, they will win more of them. It's a statistical likelihood that they'd do better as a result of that effort. It's not a demographic problem that they didn't - that makes no sense.
And it's a little naive to believe they dont pay attention to policy... if you had just "targetted" them but have policies that dont support them, then thats not enough
There's one argument I've read that some of these groups simply like bigger government. If that's indeed the case - and I'd love to see some research on it - then the GOP will have that "demographic issue" not because they're becoming "old and white" but rather because they have an ideology they don't want. Plenty of other people - a plurality-to-majority, in fact - do, so the targeting would make sense.