The only states that voted more Republican this time around are the deep southern states. You had white southerners voting 9 to 1 McCain over Obama.
Do you guys really want to be known as the angry white southern party?
You might have a little bit of support all over the nation, but that’s your base right there.
kick em to the curb.
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I don’t care what happens to Republican party
screw’em
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NOOOOOOO
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I suppose thats a better base than ACORN.
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I thought it already was.
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Dems vs. Reps is turning into the city vs. the countryside….
It’s clear from every electoral map I’ve seen. The only big city McCain won was Phoenix. And most of the states he won are the "empty states" like the Dakotas.
And population is generally shifting towards cities. A bad sign for Republicans.
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kick em to the curb.
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kp
Once people realize that Obama isn’t the savior of the world, people will swing back to the GOP. This is how American politics have been throughout history.
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i don’t think so.
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according to the experts, yes
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I hope they get replaced by the Greens or Libertarians.
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well where i live, everyone (northern area) hated obama and they are still ranting on about him. I feel bad though because i don’t think he is a bad person, everyone is just greedy where i live i guess with taxes and everything….
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46% of the voters did NOT vote for Obama. Do you really think we all live in the South? No.
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Okay, I’m not a Republican but an Independent, but guess what? Democrats have lost elections too before. Al Gore lost, ahhh no more Democrats! No, both parties are here to stay.
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Be Ridicule ..I always been a Democrat but I know of a lot of
Republicans and Closet Republicans who say one thing and vote
Republican..but this idea of the Republicans are just in the south
is pure hogwash..Right now the Republicans are not popular
but let us not forget..the Reasons Democrats lose so many past
elections is the Democrats rank and file forget to vote .~~~~P
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The southerners have always been Conservative, but don’t you worry, there are plenty of republicans nation wide to keep the party very alive and well, yep even in California. One loss does not mean the end of the party. Did you think that for the past 8 years? No, I guess you did not.
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They’re headed that way–into oblivion. They need to take a look at the demographics of 21st Century America.
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It is the Bible Belt. Obama is Pro Choice and Rev Wright did not help him at all.
Don’t blame the south because your Union based Northern job went to Alabama.
Hate is POISON.
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46% of voters in the South did vote for Obama, lets turn the South blue!!
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=USP00p7
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No, and West Virginia went Republican, we are not in the deep south.
Excuse me, but the election was very close. Half of the country still can’t stand Obama. This half will grow rapidly in the next four years.
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They’ll lose the South too if they don’t change their ways.
My guess is that the party is going to take the next four years to reinvent and redefine itself. It will re-emerge as more conciliatory, less arrogant, more pragmatic, less idealistic, more broad-based, less extreme. They can’t make it with just Southern white men.
The -new- Republican Party might be a return to the values today called ‘paleo-conservatism’, the reputable and respectable values of Barry Goldwater, and if the -old- John McCain. But McCain, Palin, et al, will be considered -old- Republicans and will not be featured highly in the new party. Maybe Jindal. Maybe Pawlenty.
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South Dakota Wyoming North Dakota Montana Idaho……
No.
This time Ron Paul supporters were just pissed. Assuming the GOP actually becomes fiscally conservative again, that won’t last.
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The GOP had better try a new initiative: "No voter left behind."
Of course, before that, they’ll have to find a way to penetrate the era of the last 50 years, which may prove impossible for the "Backward Jackos" party..
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Actually, the republican party is in danger of losing the southern block and being a party with scattered strongholds in the deep south, plains, and parts of the old west, plus a few other places here and there.
As for the South, Obama registered so many minorities that they are finally in proportion with their population, for the first time in history, in states like Georgia. Places like Virginia and North Carolina went democrat and many southern states, including South Carolina, were closer to blue than they’ve been since the end of the dixiecrat era.
The liberal population centers in these conservative bases are growing faster as they have higher birth rates and rates of immigration from more liberal states. This trend has been leaving the south less conservative in the last few years and there is reason to think it will be pretty toughly fought and divided four years from now, with a lot of liberals and a lot of conservatives and few in the middle.
There’s a power vacuum in the republican party right now and the governors are fighting to fill it, as the senators and congressmen have taken such a hit. The fight seems to be between Palin and the social conservatives and Romney and the fiscal conservatives, with the lesser known Pawlenty and Jindall emerging, but not well known, to try to posture for position. It wouldn’t surprise me to see someone from the past, possibly even Newt Gingrich, whose days running for office are clearly over, emerge as the new RNC chair and try to rebuild a consensus and a party. Personally, I hope they crash and burn, but that has rarely happened to a major political party and there are plenty of people out there who don’t agree with the democrats. They just don’t agree with each other either.
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Republicans represent good Traditional values and family. They represent God and country. Yes, the Republican Party is going to have to become a better unified party by setting the example we stand for. Good work ethics and integrity. We need to clean the crap out of our party and promote the intelligent and forward looking politicians. Not the good old boys. We need to invite the women, minorities and younger generation into our fold. Go take a look at http://www.americantraditionandleadership.org.
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No, but the democratic party has become a SOVIET party.
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Yes. Disband, particularly since so many Republicans abandoned their party to vote for Obama.
And the nation was not divided in half. McCain stole states and the rest of the numbers were phonied up as a gesture to help Palin/McCain save face.
Now the two of them need to take a vacation and then go back home.
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The gradual shrinking of the republican base has been something forseeable for decades because of immigration trends and higher reproductive rates among non-whites.
However once the nation’s economy falls into full-blown socialism, there will be a capitalist (republican) upheaval – the same as has happened in the former USSR and other eastern European nations.
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Yes it is the deep south where they have clung to what is familiar no matter how much of a dimwit Palin was or how clueless McCain was, they were white and that is all the repubs needed to know.
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It sure seems that way. I lived my first 23 years in GA and I guess I am true rebel because I’ve never voted Republican. As long as the party keeps the political views it has I doubt I’ll ever vote Republican.
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57 million Americans did not vote for Obama.
Regardless, politics is a pendulum, it will swing back after the Dems screw it up.
Michale Steele GOP President nominee 2012!!!
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Right. The Southern States…like North Dakota, Montana, and Alaska, right? When the country becomes sick of the democrats, and don’t they always, the republicans will be back. ‘Twas ever thus.
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Independent.
No, there are conservatives all over the US – people don’t realize (or don’t want to realize maybe?) that in California… get outside the urban sprawls of SF, LA, San Diego, and Santa Barbara, and you’ve got TONS of conservatives.
When I lived in SoCal, I’d drive out to Riverside County (the 909 as we call it), and I’d be cruising down the freeway in my S2000 surrounded by lifted pickups with American flags all over them; W stickers (this was around ’04); anti-welfare stickers; etc.
My neighbors back home in Massachusetts are right-wing, churchgoing conservatives who were nice, but would stare inapropriately when I came back to visit with my Asian girlfriend.
So, they’re everywhere, but I think that increasingly, their primary voter base is centered in the South. There are a lot of parts of the south that would rather commit suicide than vote democrat.
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Look at any red state/blue state map. The democrats have their dens of inequity on the west coast, in the north east and some in the north central. The rest of the country is clearly conservative.
It is unfortunate that the left wing liberal loonies pollute the areas they occupy.
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well McCain screwed the pouch when he thought that he would insulated the women voters by having some redneck dim wit of a woman as a vp!!!!
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Politics can turn on a dime. Sometimes 4 yrs is too long for even a President…Jimmy Carter. Keep in mind from 1968 thru GWB, we elected 4 Republicans and 2 Democrats. It took a Nation then and a Nation tommorrow to do that. 55+ million Americans don’t live in the South.
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Hoyoke has it about correct; the split is not regional but more broken across metropolotin and subirbs and rural. The South and western states )not west coast) went Republican and the northeast and west coast Democratic and this has been a pattern with minor changes for a while. President Elect Obama got the black vote both percent and increased registration and the youth vote bthat made some states switch but for the most part you look at the cities in California and New York nd they voted very strongly for the President Elect but the smaller towns/cities and rural areas voted for Sen McCain. In Tennessee President Elect Obama took Memphis, parts of Nashville and a small section of Knoxville but the est of the state went with Sen McCain. The portions of Knox County that had President Elect Obama win were the primarily black districts and the college campus areas with the rest of the county and city went the other way. One electiuon does not indicate anything for the future so saying the Republicans are a regional party is not as definite as you would like to believe; President Elect Obama ran a very good campaign against President Bush and did not even talk about Sen McCain that often but it was a politically savvy thing to do. The percent of white voters in the South voting for Sen McCain was not the 9 tp 1 you want to point out and infer that it means a racist vote-the only group voting that ration 90% for one candidate was the black vote. It split closer to 65 to 35 in Tennessee and the rest of the South though white males did go higher for McCain at about 70% to 75%. A ergional party does not get 46% of the national vote. The facts are that President Elect Obama owes his victory on campaigning against some one not running and playing a guilt by association game-something he says is not true based on his defense of friends and acquantinces by saying he didn;t know what they were/said or that it was them that said that not me and I should not be judged based on that. The split is where the split always has been and growing steadily worse-urban against the rest of the country.
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There are some news stories floating around recently that suggest and document that may be the current direction of the Republican Party, but it really depends on how the party regroups itself and what happens in the world in the next 2 and 4 years…
If Republicans can change and grow from the general election of 2008, they can stage a comeback in 2010 and 2012…
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Did you know that there was a time that opposite was true. The South almost always supported Democrats and the rest of the country supported the Republicans.
Right now, its urban vs rural with the mid-size suburban areas slightly split one way or the other. And the mid-west is mostly Republican right now too.
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Nope. They won’t win every presidential election. Review the electoral votes for previous elections and you will learn that Republicans have been elected president most of the time in recent history.
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James, your statement that the only states that had republican majorities were in "the deep south" is false. Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Texas, North & South Dakota and several others are not "the deep south" or even "south." Do you even know what the deep south is?
I suspect that your factoid of white southerners voting 9 to 1 in favor of McCain isn’t correct either, but I honestly don’t know.
Blacks voted approximately 19 to 1 in favor of Obama. Do they want to be known as "the angry black party?" Where is your concern about their voting patterns? Which group is more "racist?"
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Well, if the Republicans had four percent versus 96 percent, maybe. But Republicans were the choice of 47 percent of Americans, so it is nearly half. Obama got a lot of support from students, younger people that voted for the first time in their lives (and maybe not that educated politically), and if you look at the electoral map by county, it is mostly red with a few patches of blue. Obama was quite successful because he only concentrated on getting the states with more electoral votes by registering a lot of new young voters. But over the next four years those new voters will see him in action and have time to think, so I think that the Democratic party is the one that will be extinct in 2012.
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http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/red_election_map/2008/11/11/150126.html
The only ones seeing us as an angry white party are the crooked Democrats. Is that what you’re known by?
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I don’t care what happens to the GOP, but when the democrat policies don’t work someone has to be there for the election. The third parties don’t have enough representation to do any good.
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I voted Straight GOP. ticket.when I vote I vote for the man I think will be better for me.GOP or DEM.
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I sperad my votes around.