Will the GOP ever appeal to Minorities?

[justfollowingtheelections]

I don't see the Republican Party changing anytime soon. They certainly need a new message if they even hope to exist as a political party. And yes, Mike Huckabee did sum it up very well when he said "We can't just be the party of old, angry white men." And it's not just racial minorities that the GOP needs to focus on if they hope to appeal to minorities in the future.

Does anyone else not find it a little sad how in the South, Republicans are for white people and Democrats are for black people? This needs to change for both sides because it's degrading. As for Latinos, if the GOP expects to win them back, they need to stop the xenophobic and anti-immigration talk. We obviously need comprehensive immigration reform, I think we can all agree on that, but deportation and building a wall across the U.S.-Mexican border is not the answer and probably doesn't bode well for the Latino community. Don't forget, though, that Republicans do well among Cuban Americans in South Florida. Asian Americans are similar to Latinos, socially conservative and fiscally liberal, but I don't know why they vote so strongly for Democrats over Republicans. Maybe because a lot of them live in San Francisco?

It appears as though the gender gap is back as well. Exit polls showed Obama winning 56% of the female vote to 43% for McCain and just narrowly winning men 49-48%. Men, however, are a minority in this country now, so I guess that's one minority group that the GOP can rely upon! however, if they expect to attract more women to the party, they need to change their message on women's rights, pay equity, gender discrimination, and just blatant sexism.

AGE is another factor that needs to be addressed. There seems to be a growing generational gap between the parties as well. Democrats are getting the youth vote, and Republicans are getting the elderly vote. Why is this? Well, it was solidified by Obama's appeal to young voters but John Kerry also won the youth (18-29) vote as well. As someone who fits into this category, let me offer my analysis on why Democrats get the youth vote. Young America is typically more socially liberal than mainstream America. A large percentage of young adults are pro-choice and more tolerant of homosexuality and diversity in general than our older counterparts (I saw a poll taken in 2005 somewhere that showed that 56% of young adults 18-29 support gay marriage now). At the same time, young voters share the concerns of many other Americans: health care, environment, and education is obviously a big factor with so many more younger Americans going to college nowadays. If the GOP expects to attract the youth vote, my advice would be for them to ditch the hate and bigotry that is spewed from the religious right wing of the party (i.e. "If you kill babies you're going to hell" and "God hates fags" doesn't really resonate well with young people). Oh, and ditch the campus preachers too like Brother Jed who go to college campuses and tell them that fraternity boys are "rapists" and sorority girls are "whores" and black people are "animals" how all colleges propagate the "left-wing liberal agenda." Yeah these messages are not going to make want young America vote Republican anytime soon. Democrats, however, still get a substantial proportion of the elderly vote because of populist issues like Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security.

Speaking of religion (which shouldn't even be a part of politics), the Republicans just need to ditch the religious right wing of their party because they are a shrinking minority. The exit polls showed that McCain only won Protestants. Obama won Catholics, Jews, and all other religious and non-religious groups. Obviously the GOP needs to appeal to more than just WASPs if they expect to be a congregation with open arms

I would mention sexual orientation but that's a waste of time seeing as how we all know that the LGBT community is never going to vote Republican until they drop their homophobia and intolerance. Although, it is worth mentioning, that McCain got 27% of the LGBT vote in 2008 compared to George W. Bush's 25% in 2004. Maybe McCain's vote against the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment twice and calling Jerry Falwell an agent of intolerance is the direction the GOP needs to go if they want to get their share of the gay vote.

These are just my explanations. Right now, Republicans is the party of the majorities and Democrats is the party of the minorities, and until Republicans change their message, I don't see them ever attracting minorities.

Younger Cuban Americans are more Democratic than their parents and grandparents.  As for Asian-Americans, the answer is pretty simple.
The first reason is because they live in big cities.
The second is the same reason why all minorities vote for the Democrats: because the GOP is seen as the White Party.

[justfollowingtheelections]

I think with Obama's election , the Democrats have won the black vote for at least one more generation.

[justfollowingtheelections]

It's because of things like this that the Republicans have no chance of winning the minority vote any time soon (especially the black vote).

[justfollowingtheelections]

It's because of things like this that the Republicans have no chance of winning the minority vote any time soon (especially the black vote).

those are all from after Obama was elected, so something was going wrong before that.

[sorry for the format, it was easiest for me to copy that from an email]

Of course there was but my point is that they haven't learned anything and instead of trying to appeal to minorities by listening to their problems, they elect black guys like Steele as if black people are so dumb they cannot see the motives behind such an action.
it's insulting and patronizing and that's exactly why they will remain an irrelevant party.