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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The numbers prove it: The GOP is estranged from America"
The numbers prove it: The GOP is estranged from AmericaBy Andrew Kohut at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-numbers-prove-it-the-republican-party-is-estranged-from-america/2013/03/22/3050734c-900a-11e2-9abd-e4c5c9dc5e90_story.html
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The outsize influence of hard-line elements in the party base is doing to the GOP what supporters of Gene McCarthy and George McGovern did to the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s radicalizing its image and standing in the way of its revitalization.
In those years, the national Democratic Party became labeled, to its detriment, as the party of acid, abortion and amnesty. With the Democrats values far to the left of the silent majority, McGovern lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon in 1972.
While there are no catchy phrases for the Republicans of 2013, their image problems are readily apparent in national polls. The GOP has come to be seen as the more extreme party, the side unwilling to compromise or negotiate seriously to tackle the economic turmoil that challenges the nation.
It is no surprise that even elements of the Republican leadership that had been so confident of a Mitt Romney victory including when it was clear that he was going to lose the election are now looking at ways to find more electable candidates and cope with the disproportionate influence of hard-liners in the GOP. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus only scratched the surface this past week when he dissected the partys November defeat: Theres no one reason we lost. Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we werent inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; and our primary and debate process needed improvement. So theres no one solution. Theres a long list of them.
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"The numbers prove it: The GOP is estranged from America" (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2013
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ananda
(28,856 posts)1. Halt to the comparison!
McCarthy and McGovern were good men with good ideas.
There is no comparison between them and the current GOP.
Ugly analogy there.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)2. There is one reason- you are a bunch of reptiles lacking in empathy.
msongs
(67,394 posts)3. too bad current dems are not capable of smacking down the repubs at this time....
dems have moved so far to the right they look too much like repubs to seperate themselves effectively
RainDog
(28,784 posts)4. Talibornagains works for me for Republicans n/t
Republicans are the party of coercion and corporate control.