Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Even Dr. Pangloss would agree you can only ride same-sex marriage phobias so far to get minority votes

Waldo's never been a fan of one-party rule. Don't make no never mind which party it is.

Which makes Andrew Sullivan's post today- and the tone-deafness whose evidence mounts daily among Republican leaders- all the more worrisome:

The End Of White America?
Could it also mean the demise of the GOP? Publius reacts to the notion that Republicans need to twitter more to attract the next generation:
I think the GOP's youth problem is actually a non-white problem. Obama won generally among 18-29 year old voters by 66-32. However, he won white 18-29ers by a more modest +11 margin. Thus, the larger youth gap comes from the fact that McCain (considered a more moderate GOPer) got absolutely shellacked among young non-white voters. Embracing social networking sites isn't going to help much with that particular problem.
And the country ain't gettin' any whiter.
If you haven't check out the Atlantic cover-story on this very theme, here it is.

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