Right in front of our eyes, people: the Party of Old White Christian People...
...is becoming the Party of Old White Christian Men.
So earlier today someone was kind enough to link to a poll that found that over 50 percent of the country has given the Republican party a negative rating: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125113112 PoliticalWire was astute enough to note that this shift in public opinion has been spearheaded by "a resurgence and re-engagement of unmarried women."
Unmarried women, I thought, that's certain understandable enough. But how big could this demographic possibly be? Well, according to a 5-year-old article in the San Francisco Chronicle I found in the DU Archives, it was as much as a quarter of all eligible voters in 2008. It could be even higher today. They showed up in droves to vote for Obama and against Mccain/Palin four years ago; the question is, will they get out the vote in 2012?
And there it was on TV today: Foster Friess, white-haired, wealthy, the moneyman behind a politician who isn't just running for President but is THE current frontrunner nationwide and in several important upcoming primaries...Foster Friess was on a national cable news network to give his views on the race. First he said he thought it was ridiculous that everyone was focusing on "the bedroom," despite the fact that Rick Santorum has been running on bedroom politics for the last decade. Then he made one of the oddest, creepiest, stodgiest, most sexist jokes I've heard in a very long time: “You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.”
Women vote. Young people vote. Single people vote. These are exactly the kind of groups the GOP assumes don't really have an impact on the national dialogue. But believe me, thanks to the resurrection of the old Culture Wars, they are now following the Republican primaries as closely as anyone else right now--and I'm guessing they don't like what they see.
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