GOP: Old, white and in trouble, poll says

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-poll-primary-battle-has-hurt-gops-image-among-young-nonwhites-20120314,0,62506.story

By David Lauter

7:00 a.m. CDT, March 15, 2012

Reporting from Washington—

The Republican primary campaign so far hasn’t produced a nominee, but it has had one clear outcome – worsening the GOP’s image among the young, the better educated and the non-white.

That finding, from the Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday, could be a serious handicap for the party in elections this fall and in years to come, said Pew’s director, Andrew Kohut.

“The Republicans really are the party of white people, and especially older white people,” Kohut told reporters as the poll was released. “They’ve done nothing in this campaign to make themselves be more favorably viewed” among other parts of the electorate.

That verdict won’t come as a surprise to many Republican strategists. Some, including Karl Rove, the architect ofGeorge W. Bush’s electoral victories, have been arguing for years that the party needs to find ways to reach out to demographic groups, particularly Latinos, who are increasing as a percentage of the population.

[Scuba]

1. No old white people. Old white ill-informed and stupid people...

... a lot of us old white people have seen the light.

[southernyankeebelle]

23. I sure don't like being painted like that. I'm older and wiser so I vote democrat. I

think it is so sad to see these elderly people who really vote on one social issue. They don't see the republican party is going to screw them if they get their way. But no there going to vote against their financial interests because the republican party knows how to sell it better then the democrats.

[Gman]

2. And today's GOP grassroots will say they don't care and they like it this way

and if the elections don't go their way, i.e. Obama loses, I really think a large part of them have other remedies in mind. No matter who wins, the next 4 years will likely be the ugliest in the history of this country.

[Aviation Pro]

22. When the President is reelected...

...it will force the party of 'Cant to move further to the right into the most extreme areas of that bag of anarchy. This will ensure a twelve year period of Democratic dominance of the White House and Congress and will usher in a new era of progressiveness.

By pandering to the stupid, the ill-informed and the corporatists the Republicants have sealed their own doom.

[southernyankeebelle]

24. They won't move if Romney wins the primary. They will say it is the wrong person. The

next time it will be holy rick and then he will lose and lose big. Because the country doesn't want to go that far right. They will be forced to change.

[lpbk2713]

3. Agree

And most of them are so "privileged" that they have no idea and cannot relate to what the rest of the
world is having to go through right now as a result of their greed, ineptitude and obstructionism.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. So...Turd Blossom wants to 'reach out,' eh?

From my perspective, goopers have been reaching out alright - to deliver a smack upside the head to non-white demographic groups. It's practically reflexive and seems to come quite naturally to them.

[uponit7771]

5. I mentioned yesterday that the MORE people see the GOP the more they dislike them

...where as it's the opposite with Obama. His poll numbers go down the less he's in the public eye

[get the red out]

6. In a decade, the average age of Rep voters

will be "deceased".

[Ikonoklast]

28. Average age of a BillO and Rush listener is over 56.

That is not a recipe for future success.

I have said this before here, and will say it again:

This Is The Republican Waterloo.

They Are Failing.

[libtodeath]

7. They are a dying breed

but so full of hatred they will destroy all they can on the way down.

[KharmaTrain]

8. The Effects of Faux Noise and Hate Radio...

For years a lot of the hatred and ignorance of the rushpublican party hid below the surface...you knew there were things about them that were crazy but felt they'd never be goofy enough to follow through. We knew they didn't like "colored" folks but they didn't actively go after preventing them from voting...or women with reproductive rights or the anti-immigrant (Mexican) noise. All this was whipped up and amped up on Faux Noise and then chewed over endlessly on hundreds of hate talk stations. They built their bubble and then inside it's been a race to the bottom to see who could "out-conservative" the other...usually with the most outrageous and moronic ideas...and a lot of dangerous ones as well.

We're seeing the rushpublicans eat themselves alive....but like a caged animal they're dangerous and lash out in all directions. We're seeing that anger now being directed inwards and I see further ruptures ahead at what is sure to be a contentious convention.

Cheers...

[Le Taz Hot]

9. Thanks for lumping all us

"older white people" together there, Mr. Kohut. Perhaps using the term "some older white people" would have been more accurate.

[dmallind]

19. No. If A then B does not include the concept of if B then A

The group of known murderers is overwhelingly male.

There is not the slightest implication there that males are overwhelmingly murderers.

Your inference is in error, not his statement.

[Blue Owl]

10. Plus, they stink

n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

16. Wow!

Nice to know how you regard old white people. And so open about it, too!

[safeinOhio]

17. I'm an old white person

and agree that old white republicans stink too.

[Le Taz Hot]

18. So, it's OK to

perpetuate bigoted stereotypes just as long as it's against people with whom you disagree. Got it. Fear not, the new MOD SQUAD seems to think it's just peachy so you and the original poster are protected..

[safeinOhio]

29. I'm OK with it because

I can't tell if the person was referring to "old people" or republicans or both. Worse things have been said about republicans here.

I can see your point, however being an old white male, I'm not offended at all. But, that's just me.

[madinmaryland]

32. I'm an old white Democrat and my shit really stinks. Actually I can really stink at times not even

involving my shit!!

[Motown_Johnny]

11. Yep, that party is slowly fading away

It is why they feel the need to pass new voting laws to discriminate against people who are not part of their base.

I feel it is now inevitable. They can't reach out to new demographics without angering the people who have stuck with the party as it currently exists. They are in a no win situation and they know it.

All they can do is screw up the works while they try to hold on to their government jobs a while longer. The downfall of the Republican party will happen. Only the Democrats turning on themselves can save the GOP now. Lets hope we can hold off until after the GOP falls before we do that (again).

[MineralMan]

12. Old, white, and male.

Their blindness when it comes to issues that affect women is amazing.

[Mariana]

26. The thing is, most of them have wives, daughters, granddaughters...

Sisters, cousins, nieces. What the hell is wrong with them? They know it's wrong. They know it will adversely affect the women in their own families.

Can you imagine how the women who are related to them feel? They have to live with knowing these men will happily vote to sacrifice their health and even their lives, to make a political point. They hate the President more than they love their women and girls. I'm very glad my own dad, who normally remains firmly in the throroughly brainwashed RWer camp, isn't going along with them on this. It would break my heart if he did.

[MineralMan]

27. You'd think so, wouldn't you? Apparently,

there are some people who are so tied into their need for a patriarchal society that they'll gladly inflict it on even the women in their own lives. Very sad state of affairs, it seems to me.

[nickinSTL]

34. what I don't get is the women that go along with it

do they all have some twisted need to be abused?

Maybe they all need some serious therapy. I just can't imagine any emotionally healthy woman supporting the Republican party.

[bullwinkle428]

13. Paging Marco Rubio to the white courtesy phone!

[ejbr]

14. The only reaching out Rove has done

is with his middle finger.

[qb]

15. Their political campaigning is as short-sighted as their economic policies.

They may see some positive response in the short-term, but in the long-term it's a disaster.

At least it's good for Democrats.

[UTUSN]

20. R#28 & K for, from the poll's lips to Zeus' ear!1 n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

21. This says it all....

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[GeorgeGist]

25. You've come a long way Baby ...

Boomers.

[Number23]

30. As a young(ish) black woman, all I have to say to this is

Yay!!

[hifiguy]

31. The Repukes are committing increasingly rapid

demographic suicide. I urge them on in their efforts.

[jillan]

33. Who else would like them? They insult everyone that isn't an uneducated white male.

[DonCoquixote]

35. They are not dead yet

Especially since a lot of them became Clinton democrats, which is to say DINOs.