Conventional wisdom holds that as
African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and gays increase their political
clout, Republicans must devise a way of reaching out to these critical
demographic groups. Is this wisdom correct?
The four more years that the American electorate has
granted President Obama will most likely be spent by the Republicans in
feuding over the soul and destiny of their party. From the point of view
of making the next Republican presidential nominee electable, it is
difficult to imagine a worse strategy. After all, the last great
Republican feud — the one that broke out between President Taft and
Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 — ended in the election of a Democrat, Woodrow
Wilson, and the current feud may put yet another Democrat in the White
House in 2016. Yet there seems no way around the coming feud, and this
fact by itself is a bit puzzling.Read more: http://www.american.com/archive/2013/january/can-the-gop-be-saved-the-myth-of-the-demographic-fix
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