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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-14-09 10:10 AM
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For Republicans, the Forces Aren't With Them
For Republicans, the Forces Aren't With Them

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/13/AR2009061301209.html?hpid=topnews

By Dan Balz
Sunday, June 14, 2009

There has been much chatter about who now speaks for the Republican Party, and whether the GOP has a message or an agenda to combat President Obama's popularity. Those questions are important to the party's future, but the most serious problem remains the deeper demographic and political forces at work in the country.

For the past few months, political analysts and demographers have been poring over the results of the 2008 election and comparing them with presidential results from the past two decades. From whatever angle of their approach -- age, race, economic status, geography -- they have come to a remarkably similar conclusion. Almost all indicators are pressing the Republicans into minority status.

Republicans are still capable of winning individual elections, but until they find a way to reverse, or at least minimize, these broader changes in the country, their chances of returning to majority status will be severely reduced.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-14-09 10:30 AM
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1. Abuse of Power has soured the American Soup...BushCo and attendent Pubs steered the Nation into
Losses we can barely believe....now they pay a heavy price...the loss of their Brand name and party.

The Dems are singing in the rain(Happy Days are here again) while the Pubs mumble incoherently
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-14-09 10:33 AM
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2. They're ahead of this story: they've take over the Dem Party.
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