Purdum: Republicans Can Lose By Winning
Click here for reuse options!If Republicans prevail in this year’s midterm congressional elections, it will be because of their party’s sharp-edged stances on topics like abortion and Benghazi, Obamacare and immigration, gay marriage and the minimum wage — issues that energize the GOP’s core base of support.
But if Republicans lose the race for the White House in 2016, it will be because of their party’s polarizing, out-of-step stances on those very same issues, which alienate much of the broader electorate the GOP needs to win a national contest in a country whose demographics and political realities are shifting under its feet…
“The Republican Party has essentially now two wings: a congressional wing and the national wing,” the veteran GOP pollster Bill McInturff said at a recent Pew Research Center forum on so-called millennial voters, those from 18 to 29 years of age. The congressional wing is thriving, especially in the South, in districts that are 75 percent, or even 80 percent, white, and where every incumbent’s worst fear is a challenge from the right.
But McInturff summed up the national party’s prospects with an old line from Mr. T in “Rocky III”: “Prediction? Pain!”
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Bunya May 26th, 2014 at 01:44
Since their constituents like the GOP’s sharp-edged stances on such relic topics like abortion and Benghazi, Obamacare and
immigration, gay marriage and the minimum wage, let’s hope they give them a fighting chance by not dying off before the election.
Bunya May 26th, 2014 at 01:44
Since their constituents like the GOP’s sharp-edged stances on such relic topics like abortion and Benghazi, Obamacare and
immigration, gay marriage and the minimum wage, let’s hope they give them a fighting chance by not dying off before the election.