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talking to these people is like 
No doubt they will say the repuke ticket wasn't conservative enough and they'll start all over again.
They'll mover further right. But I see that seems to be the general consensus. 
They'll have another meeting I'm sure where they'll talk about what they need to do in order hamstring President Obama for the next 4 years while they regroup and figure out to nominate a "real conservative". I've heard that Santorum will still be waiting in the wings for 2016 and is likely to be a "strong contender"!
The problem is that the GOP (or what's left of it) is in severe denial about why they lose. They blame the media (which is actually on their side and promoting their BS most of the time), they accuse Democrats and Democratic-constituencies for fraud that doesn't exist, they blame poor people, minorities, women, et. al for voting against them (and for being able to vote at all), they blame their nominees for not being "severely conservative" enough to win a national election, etc. They never stop and realize that most people are turned off by their increasingly out-of-touch messaging and policies and that they are being held hostage by the demands of their own constituencies, which demand ideological purity that prevents any kind of reasonable policies/governing.
If they don't seriously have their shit together by 2020 the demographic shift may be to much for them to ever recover from.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/aia2010031101/
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The increase in the nonwhite share of the electorate over the next decade will have major consequences for electoral competition. If the Democratic Party is able to maintain anything close to the overwhelming advantage among nonwhite voters that it enjoyed in 2008, Republican candidates will need to win a considerably larger share of the white vote than their party’s candidates did in 2008 or even 2004 in order to remain competitive in national elections. Under these circumstances, even a 60 percent share of the white vote would not be enough to give a Republican candidate a majority of the popular vote and the last Republican presidential candidate to win more than 60 percent of the white vote was Ronald Reagan in 1984.
An alternative path to victory for Republicans in future national elections would involve seeking to expand their Party’s support among nonwhite voters. By winning a larger share of the nonwhite vote, a Republican candidate could be elected with considerably less than 60 percent of the white vote. But this would require the GOP to move away from its conservative base and closer to the ideological center because nonwhite voters tend to be strong supporters of increased spending on social programs and activist government.
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Along the same lines, 65 percent of nonwhite voters, including 64 percent of African-American voters and 73 percent of Hispanic voters, supported the creation of a single-payer health care system in the United States compared with only 15 percent of Republican primary voters. And given a choice between more government services with higher taxes and fewer government services with lower taxes, 67 percent of nonwhite voters, including 67 percent of African-American voters and 68 percent of Hispanic voters, chose more government services with higher taxes compared with only 25 percent of GOP primary voters.
