Time for a GOP Northern Strategy

[TJ in Oregon]

The upper Midwest makes/made sense from the perspective that minorities won't vote for a Republican anyway so we may as well not waste our time (this isn't necessarily true for Hispanics but this strategy yielded that result) because swing states like Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota (if that counts as a swing state) have very high white percentages of the population.

Other than making an attempt for Hispanic votes, I don't think there's a magic bullet here. The Republicans actually going after the evangelicals would destroy the party because it doesn't make sense for the GOP to launch a huge attack on the just about the only people who still vote for them. We do need to find better spokesmen of our message and make an effort to find better candidates not just "true conservative" a.k.a. whatever-we're-pushing-at-the-moment. Not a majority, but certainly some white secularists are willing to vote for the GOP if our politicians make more sense than the Democrats and talk about something other than Jesus every once in a while. We need to start asking ourselves exactly who are we convincing by saying whatever we are.