Blue Wall

[Suff]

The Blue Wall

In the five successive presidential elections, beginning with Clinton's victory in 1992 and ending with Obama's in 2008, 18 states and the District of Columbia, with 248 electoral votes among them, voted for the Democratic ticket all five times. John McCain did not come within 10 points of Obama in any of the 18, and he lost D.C. 92-8.


Not only are the 18 hostile terrain for any GOP presidential ticket, Republicans hold only three of their 36 Senate seats and fewer than 1 in 3 of their House seats."Democrats also control two-thirds of these 18 governorships, every state House chamber, and all but two of the state Senates," writes Brownstein.


In many of the 18, the GOP has ceased to be competitive. In the New England states, for example, there is not a single Republican congressman. In New York, there are only three.

"State by state, election by election," says Brownstein,"Democrats since 1992 have constructed the party's largest and most durable Electoral College base in more than half a century. Call it the blue wall."



What does the Republican base look like?

In the same five presidential contests, from 1992 to 2008, Republicans won 13 states all five times. But the red 13 have but 93 electoral votes, fewer than a third of the number in "the blue wall."

The Republican "lock" on the presidency, crafted by Nixon, and patented by Reagan, has been picked. The only lingering question is whether an era of inexorable Republican decline (http://i.usatoday.net/news/TheOval/National-Journal-1-16-2009.pdf) has set in.


gimme 20 on inexorable decline.

[bigmack]

You left out other salient points PBuchanan wrote: (no doubt by mistake)

Demographically, the GOP is a party of white Americans, who in 1972 were perhaps 90 percent of the national vote. Nixon and Reagan rolled up almost two-thirds of that vote in 1972 and 1984. But because of abortion and aging, the white vote is shrinking as a share of the national vote and the population.

The minorities that are growing most rapidly, Hispanics and Asians, cast 60 to 70 percent of their presidential votes for the Democratic Party. Black Americans vote 9-1 for national Democrats. In 2008, they went 30-1.

Put succinctly, the red pool of voters is aging, shrinking and dying, while the blue pool, fed by high immigration and a high birth rate among immigrants, is steadily expanding.

Philosophically, too, the country is turning away from the GOP creed of small government and low taxes. Why?

Nearly 90 percent of immigrants, legal and illegal, are Third World poor or working-class and believe in and rely on government for help with health and housing, education and welfare. Second, tax cuts have dropped nearly 40 percent of wage earners from the tax rolls.

If one pays no federal income tax but reaps a cornucopia of benefits, it makes no sense to vote for the party of less government.

[Tom]

Maybe decent people just don't want any part of New England anymore.

[cj's dad]

Maybe decent people just don't want any part of New England anymore.

Regarding New England of which Mass. is the mother ship-

The state that elects "dead women can't talk" Teddy and Barney

[Tom]

And enabled the 9-11 Death Pilots to succeed.

[ddog]

You left out other salient points PBuchanan wrote: (no doubt by mistake)

Demographically, the GOP is a party of white Americans, who in 1972 were perhaps 90 percent of the national vote. Nixon and Reagan rolled up almost two-thirds of that vote in 1972 and 1984. But because of abortion and aging, the white vote is shrinking as a share of the national vote and the population.

The minorities that are growing most rapidly, Hispanics and Asians, cast 60 to 70 percent of their presidential votes for the Democratic Party. Black Americans vote 9-1 for national Democrats. In 2008, they went 30-1.

Put succinctly, the red pool of voters is aging, shrinking and dying, while the blue pool, fed by high immigration and a high birth rate among immigrants, is steadily expanding.

Philosophically, too, the country is turning away from the GOP creed of small government and low taxes. Why?

Nearly 90 percent of immigrants, legal and illegal, are Third World poor or working-class and believe in and rely on government for help with health and housing, education and welfare. Second, tax cuts have dropped nearly 40 percent of wage earners from the tax rolls.

If one pays no federal income tax but reaps a cornucopia of benefits, it makes no sense to vote for the party of less government.


it's so obvious , i don't see why it even needs to be stated anymore.
One is not racist for holding the view either, so all you others don't need to pile on.

As was said long ago and seems to be in no doubt, democracy will vote itself out of existence one day.

Cjs dad , pay close attention to the above.

[JustRalph]

Regarding New England of which Mass. is the mother ship-

The state that elects "dead women can't talk" Teddy and Barney


Don't forget this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds

They re-elected this guy after he plowed a 17 yr old page in Congress......

I can't blame the 17 yr old. He didn't mean to be involved. He said he just got sucked into it.............

[cj's dad]

Ralph, Thanks for the Gary Studds reminder - isn't it amazing how the Dems forget about these guys???


Don't forget this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds

They re-elected this guy after he plowed a 17 yr old page in Congress......

I can't blame the 17 yr old. He didn't mean to be involved. He said he just got sucked into it.............