PoliticalShelter
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« on: January 16, 2018, 07:41:15 AM » |
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This should really be called; "The GOP's Inner-Suburbia problem" since this is the area that the pre-90s GOP utterly dominated and still had the advantage as recently as 2004.
The GOP's overall strategy since the 80s hasn't really changed; the GOP still base their campaigns against the plight of the inner city. The problem is that the issues the caused the GOP to dominate the inner suburbs in the 80s have largely receded; Crime rates have never been lower, urban areas have managed to have had a strong recovery since the 90s and the soviet union obviously doesn't exist anymore.
If the GOP wants to win back areas (or at least gain ground) they need to actually campaign on issues that these inner suburbites actually care about. Something the movement conservatives who make up a large chunk of the Never Trump group are ardently opposed too.
Trump isn't really the cause of this, the GOP was already losing ground in these areas. The only reason they didn't completely collapse in these areas until Trump was because they had the advantage of being the anti-incumbent party during the Obama years, with all the electoral advantages that come with it.
Once the GOP became the incumbent party, with a figurehead who was not a good fit for these voters, it was only natural that they were going to begin to severely implode in these areas.
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