What is the best strategy for the GOP going forward?

[IceSpear]

Diversity = The one that most people talk about, and the "politically correct version". The GOP reaches out to minorities (particularly Hispanics) and either stays static with or only slightly increases their amount of white voters in order to get a win.

Mississippi = Self explanatory. Go all in on white voters. Try to make whites so heavily Republican that even if nonwhites vote heavily Democratic, the Republicans win anyway.

[IceSpear]

Mississippi.  As the minority share of the vote in many states crosses 30%-35%, White moderates and liberals will become a minority within the Dem party.  As a result they will leave the Dem party in droves and the GOP will have to give them an alternative party to migrate to.   

A bunch of white liberals joining the GOP? That sounds like krazen's worst nightmare.

[IceSpear]

Whatever the GOP is doing is working. They have bigger majorities than anytime since 1928

Dont forget the "GOP" isnt just President. It is also the local recorder of deeds, the city council, the state legislator. By that measure the GOP is the majority party. The Dems are in a similar position to the GOP with Ford in 1975. They have the WH but nothing else.

They've won the popular vote once in the last six elections. It's pretty clear that they start in a hole in a nationwide high turnout election. Their success in other areas has come from low turnout midterms and gerrymandering. Of course, at the end of the day it doesn't make a difference, the people who hold the offices still hold them. But it's difficult for the GOP to claim a greater mandate than the Democrats until they can win a presidential election comfortably (which they haven't done since 1988).

[IceSpear]

the marriage thing will come back in the GOP's favor.

LOL