GOP problem: 'Their voters are white, aging and dying off'

[madamesilverspurs]

11. Some of their aging voters are bolting.

Voters like my 93-year-old mother, for 72 years a very active party member, who just last month got so disgusted that she formally left the party. And she's hardly the only one to do so. Her closest friend is on the exec committee of their county republican party and has voiced her own dismay at the ignorance and nastiness of those who attend their gatherings.

With good reason Mom feels betrayed by the party, that sense of discomfort growing for the last several years. For the first time in her life she voted for the Democratic candidate for president in '08, but kept her republican registration in order to have access to conversations to try to reason with people. She knows full well that she is no longer welcome, but she also knows that they are the ones who closed the door. She's supporting Obama this year.

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