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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:32 PM
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Goodbye Republicants
A very interesting map confirming that within years the GOP is gone. Their political influence in even the most red of states is declining.

No wonder they are getting ever more extreme.


http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:38 PM
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1. That's what they get for being so greedy, negative, and eager to dump-on-America
Edited on Wed Jun-29-11 06:43 PM by SpiralHawk
Americans have about had it with diaper-clad, chickehawk Republicons in pinstripe suits wagging their fingers as if morally superior while playing with their putters and frolicking around with faux lesbian B&D rentboys in public bathroom stalls, meanwhile fattening up the fatcats by doling out Republicon Welfare for the Rich, while kicking hungry grannies & babies under the bus.

To name just a very few of their vast array of gravely gross and ethically bankrupt BS ploys.
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:38 PM
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2. I can't wait to see Rush on the corner begging for nickles. /nt
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:40 PM
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3. That's why they are in such a hurry to get rid of free and fair elections.
It's an end game as to whether they can take over the system before the system overtakes them.
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:42 PM
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5. You have it in one.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 08:34 PM
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22. And the Democrats are championing Transparent, Verifiable Elections!!!
Oh Wait.
No they're not.
In fact, we NOW have MORE unverifiable Corporate Owned Black Box Voting Machines than under Bush the Lesser.

That should tell you something.
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ohheckyeah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:42 PM
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4. Huh?
What map are you looking at?
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:43 PM
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6. The map I linked to?
Look at the demographic changes.
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ohheckyeah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 09:07 PM
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23. Okay, but
I don't know that the demographic changes guarantee the Republicans will be gone. I get where you're headed with this but I don't know....dicey.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:45 PM
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8. Probably not the one from last November's elections
4 years ago we heard how Texas was going to be Dem within a couple years.

This deep denial is a major problem
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LonePirate Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:59 PM
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15. Look at the Texas demographics. How much longer will Rs keep capturing Hispanic voters?
In Texas:

Whites = 45%
Blacks = 11%
Hispanics = 38%
Asians = 4%

If Texas voters comprised the same racial proportions as the general population, then there is no reason why Democrats could not be competitive in Texas, even if only 10% of white voters vote Dem. The challenge we face is convincing the Hispanic population that Republicans demonize them and are not their allies. Once we start capturing the same percentage of the Hispanic vote in Texas that we capture of the black vote, then Texas becomes a blue state. Once Texas turns blue, the Republican power base is practically eliminated.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 07:30 PM
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20. TX and FL, two heavily Hispanic states, are getting MORE Repuke, not less
wouldn't looking at election trends make more sense than just demographics? :shrug:
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LonePirate Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 07:55 PM
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21. Even looking at election trends, FL and TX are becoming bluer not redder
Edited on Wed Jun-29-11 07:57 PM by LonePirate
2000 Presidential Election:
FL: R = 49% and D = 49%
TX: R = 59% and D = 38%

2004 Presidential Election:
FL: R = 52% and D = 47%
TX: R = 61% and D = 38%

2008 Presidential Election:
FL: R = 48% and D = 51%
TX: R = 55% and D = 44%

2002 Gubernatorial Election:
FL: R = 56% and D = 43%
TX: R = 58% and D = 40%

2006 Gubernatorial Election:
FL: R = 52% and D = 45%
TX: R = 39% and D = 30%

2010 Gubernatorial Election:
FL: R = 49% and D = 48%
TX: R = 55% and D = 42%
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:43 PM
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7. Within years? Technically true. 50 million years; plausible.
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AverageJoe90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:47 PM
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9. Sounds about right to me.........
Honestly, I'm not surprised.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:50 PM
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10. Sorry, I'm not getting it
A map of demographic change doesn't mean that the GOP is going to be gone within years. And living in a red state myself, I can assure you that their influence is not declining.
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cameozalaznick Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 07:22 PM
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19. Okay, let's try this another way...
Brown people are having more babies than white people. Throw in the blacks and Asians and south Asians and we're rapidly heading for a majority minority country. And historically brown people are distrustful of republicans. May have something to do with the mid-century civil rights struggles and the fact that it's Ds, not Rs who are generally more supportive of minorities and immigrants.

See?

This has actually been predicted for a long time. Nothing new here.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:53 PM
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11. Good Luck with that.
I'm in Oklahoma and unless these idiot bible thumpers wake up soon, we're screwed. I don't see it happening anytime soon.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:53 PM
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12. The major metropolitan areas (blue areas) are gaining population
of every background. The further away one moves, the less the population growth. Rural areas took the greatest losses followed by the "ex-burbs" (which were built during this past decade's super-bubble of cheap and unsustainable debt.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:55 PM
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13. Which means more conservatives are moving into urban areas,
While the depopulated rural areas are turning even more conservative. And this is somehow a good thing?

This is what I'm seeing locally and on a statewide basis.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 07:01 PM
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17. The minority population is growing too.
That favors the the Democrats. Also consider that the children of the white conservatives are not necessarily the same as their parents, particularly on social issue.
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 06:58 PM
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14. Yeah, right....
We heard this same thing 2 years ago. And look how fast things have changed.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 07:00 PM
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16. Nixon's resignation in disgrace spells the end of the Republicans for decades to come. . .
or so said so many when I was a young man . . .
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 07:06 PM
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18. Not if the Dems keep siding with the 1%
As in 2010, fake populism seems to work just fine.
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