… Republicans may lament that this is not their father’s country but more to the point this is not their father’s marketing either. Irreversible change in the country’s demography collided with irresistible change in the consumption of media. While older white males get their information from television the people who […] Read more »
Senate Democrats Earned Every Seat They Won–Thanks to the DSCC
It’s hard to talk about the 2012 congressional elections without starting with the Senate and the remarkable election night for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. … The DSCC was dealt a weak hand at the start of the cycle, prompting some analysts to question the sanity of Chairwoman Patty Murray […] Read more »
RNC report suggests other reasons why Romney lost
While Mitt Romney has attributed his defeat, in part, to “gifts” President Obama was able to shower on key constituencies, a Republican National Committee report on the election points to other reasons — like changing demographics, Hurricane Sandy, George W. Bush, and the failure to win over the middle class. […] Read more »
The GOP Can’t Fall for the False ‘Center v. Right’ Debate
… The glaring truth we Republicans have to face following this election is that there are simply not enough of us anymore. … The solution to these problems is not for the party to pack up its tent and move it a few feet to the left or the right […] Read more »
The GOP’s Challenge Extends Beyond Hispanics and Immigration Reform
… The GOP will have miscalculated the breadth of their challenge if they adopt immigration reform as their one-plank plan for recapturing the White House in 2016. The numbers illustrate the folly of relying too much on a Latino turnaround to produce a Republican victory. Obama leads the national popular […] Read more »
The Lessons of Defeat for the GOP
The GOP is undergoing the type of re-examination that occurs whenever a party loses. That useful exercise should be guided by facts. Here is some of what we know. The media’s postelection narrative is that Democrats won because of a demographic shift. There is some truth to that, but a […] Read more »