Is the GOP still haunted by the 1992 Convention?

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Re: Is the GOP still haunted by the 1992 Convention?

This current Republican Party?!

They are thoroughly corrupt and are whoring themselves for the oligarchs.

That's their present…and their future.

They don't have time to reflect on 1992.

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The 1992 convention drew some battle lines that enabled the GOP to make huge gains in the South and Border States over the years due to their cultural conservatism.  It has hardly been all bad for them.

Yes, the "South" has historically excellent voting records…if you're counting backwards. (Seven of those eleven Old Confederacy states rank between Nos. 41 and 50 with picking presidential winners.) So, sure thing, it's best to be the political party which carries Texas (which has voted for presidential winners at about 60 percent compared to this historical percentage of carried states being about 70 percent) than to carry California (which is about 85 percent).

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Before the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston the GOP had won 5 of the previous 6 Presidential elections.  At the convention Pat Buchanan made his now famous speech basically declaring Holy war and the rest of the Religious right seemed to do all they could to scare moderate Americans away from the party.

Since then the Democrats have won the popular vote in 5 of 6 elections.  These are the states the Dems. have won 6 out of 6, totaling 242 Electoral votes. Just 28 short of 270.

Women, once a swing vote, now vote mostly Democratic. Young people, upset that the GOP hates their gay friends, vote overwhelmingly Democratic. And Religious minorities, and those of no religion, are also very unlikely to vote for the GOP.

Even people who only 'Occasionally' go to Church backed Obama in 2012 55-43.

So is this my secular queer bias? Or is there something here?

Basically, yes.  But I wouldn't say the GOP hates homosexuals; rather, people merely think they do.

You’re out of touch with your preferred party.

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http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-polls

Romney won college voters but not post grad

Yep. It's the 22-35 year olds that essentially won it for Obama...twice. 

1) Most 22-35 year olds identify "Clinton" as their president growing up, the last truly successful economic president.  Then, they contrasted eight years with GWB.  Yikes.

2) The real young voters didn't really know the Clinton years, but many have gotten poorer under Obama. 

Yeah but in my opinion Obama is nowhere near the President that Clinton was. Obama might even be a tad worse than Bush W. was.

You're dismissed.

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Saying Obama is worse than W should be a crime punishable through time travel to September of 2008.

I have been working for 17 years and "The Obama Years" have been my worst. No I didn't like Bush W. but I don't like Obama either.

You should have been fighting as a soldier in Iraq while George W. Bush was president.