I find I have little sympathy for States that elected crap RW Governors.

[Cali_Democrat]

30. If they're so powerful...

how come the GOP has lost the popular vote 5 out of the last 6 Presidential elections?

How come the Dems will start out with 247 electoral votes in 2016 while the GOP would have to win pretty much every single swing state to win the Presidential election? The math looks horrible for them and they know it.

The GOP whackjob base led them to a bitter defeat in 2012 when they forced Romney to the right and he started talking about self-deportation in the debates which led to Obama taking a huge share of the Latino vote. This doomed Romney.

Now it's happening again because of their reaction to Obama's executive immigration order.

Sure, in states like Alabama and South Carolina, the GOP base is powerful, but they only appeal to white people.

At the national level, the GOP is slowly becoming marginalized as the nation becomes more diverse and the GOP can only appeal to their lily white base. They have completely alienated blacks, Hispanics and Asians...the ethnic groups which are growing the fastest and are increasingly becoming Democratic voters.

Whites are becoming a smaller and smaller share of the electorate every year. The growing electorate is voting Dem.

They can only win in years like 2014 when there's record low turnout. Their other hope is to suppress the vote through measures like voter id even though they cannot prove voter fraud.

More powerful than anything out there?

Don't make me fucking laugh.