Meanwhile, they hold more elected offices than anytime in almost 100 years.
Well no one said it isn't working right now, although their performance in presidential elections has been notably weak since the days of Reagan.
I'm not sure if I said it in this thread or another, but one reason not to put too much emphasis on downballot power as a marker for future success is the elections of 1994 and 2010, but especially '94. If you told Democrats they would lose the House for the next 12 years in 1994, along with a slew of states, they'd probably have called you deluded. Rapid shifts of power can and do happen. In fact, if I recall correctly, there was even a book released in early 1994 about Republicans in the House of Reps, called "Congress' Permanent Majority." 
All I am saying, is that every election cycle over the past decade Ive seen the party hacks proclaim again and again their permanent ascendance to power based on of too many bad assumptions. The "races" will not always vote as they do now, new issues and coalitions will always arise, and local conditions will still matter. if you continue pushing this quasi religious prophecy about how one day the heroic colourfuls will outnumber the evil pales and we will have a wonderful tolerant socialist utopia of love and sharing because of 2012 voting patterns, eventually the continued failure to achieve this outcome will leave many on your side disillusioned. The "demographics as destiny" trope may make democrats feel good, but its been 15 years since texiera and judis. Should dems really continue to neglect alternative strategies on the continued faith that one day soon everyone who looks like they may disagree will die and no one else will ever change their voting habits?
You're welcome to believe whatever hoodoo you want, but after the repeateded failure of the Dems to win based upon this "demographics as destiny" theory, I shall remain skeptical. There is way too much slack in our political system for either party to have near permanent dominance over political power.
