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union_maid

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11. It's going to take a while

Reply to meadowlark5 (Original post)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 11:41 AM

Nov 2012

If they really try to be inclusive, rather than the window dressing kind of thing, they'll depress the bigot base that they've cultivated for years now. If they abandon the wedge issues, they lose the old, white, straight, scared people that they depend on. I could be totally wrong, but aside from their problems with bread and butter issues for the common person, it seems to me that realignment is going to be a bitch for them.

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You know what concerns me about the GOP "making a bigger tent"? [View all] meadowlark5 Nov 2012 OP

The history of the GOP will make that one hell of a hard job. Pete Wilson. Bluenorthwest Nov 2012 #1

if they try to let others in their tent d_r Nov 2012 #2

Unfortunately true! nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #9

They're going to look at Latinos like Bain Capital looks at a company's pension fund. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2012 #3

The GOP tried to do this at their convention this year... CoffeeCat Nov 2012 #4

Please they are WEAK in the Game!!!!!! mstinamotorcity2 Nov 2012 #5

They're not honest now and are effective with whites, a Latino Fox news could be very damaging. democrat_patriot Nov 2012 #7

A Latino version of Fox News would be a very effective tool meadowlark5 Nov 2012 #10

Not going to work!!!! mstinamotorcity2 Nov 2012 #17

+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #12

Right now they can't convince Latinos that the GOP is their best representatives meadowlark5 Nov 2012 #6

Hispanics are too a diverse group. The GOP would do better with Blacks. bluestate10 Nov 2012 #8

It's going to take a while union_maid Nov 2012 #11

+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #13

The "Latino version of Fox News"? brooklynite Nov 2012 #14

Is that just a news website? meadowlark5 Nov 2012 #18

I see thinktanks thinking of ways to create a "Western Strategy" SweetieD Nov 2012 #15

How are the GOP's attempts to manipulate the black vote going? gravity Nov 2012 #16

I don't think they've ever tried meadowlark5 Nov 2012 #20

I am afraid that the rank and file Republicans may have physical differences in their ladjf Nov 2012 #19