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hopper
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« on: June 10, 2017, 10:55:39 PM »

My point is that a wave election will encompass all voters involved. Non-white population can keep growing, but margins will self-stabilize in the event of a disastrous Democratic presidency. Black, white or purple, the American public will want change. That will eventualize into minority voters swinging to the right.

Carter didn't seem to have that effect. Reagan's margins (both times) among African Americans and Hispanics were lackluster given his overall win margins.

The GOP is going to have to change quite a bit to win them over, and their behavior right now is really hurting their future prospects with current minority generations. The only progress they seem to be making is with African American men, and it's hard to separate that from their overall advantage with men in general. My point is that the Republican Party is going to have to work for those voters, and that may entail taking up positions/behaviors that eventually drive away other existing parts of their coalition.

African-Americans and Hispanics were also a much smaller portion of the American electorate in 1980 than they are now.

You also have to remember that pre-1960s blacks will eventually die out and so will the racist past of America. Do you really think that the African-American population of 2050 will have the same attitudes toward racism having grown up in millenial America?

Blacks-No not really Black People were 10% of the Presidential Electorate in 1980 and they were 12% of the Presidential Electorate in 2016 so there was not a dramatic difference at all on what % of the Presidential Electorate that Blacks made up 1980 vs 2016. Hispanics-Yes they made up 2% of the Presidential Electorate in 1980 vs 9 or 11% (Depending which Exit Poll you look at) of the Presidential Electorate in 2016 so that is a sizeable difference.
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hopper
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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2017, 10:58:14 PM »

Talk about how NAFTA and other DLC-inspired faux liberal policies have decimated Hispanic and AA working class communities.

Might be a promising strategy for a Trump-style candidate without the racial rhetoric.

I know you're real big on that narrative, but to call NAFTA "DLC-inspired" is blatantly wrong.  It was a Republican's baby, a Republican'a campaign promise and a GOP Congress' bill; who cares that an ideology-free Democratic President signed it?
It was a Democrat Congress that passed it.
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hopper
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2017, 11:02:11 PM »

They have obstructed comprehensive immigration reform which will hurt them in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Which is the very reason why Nancy Pelosi and Booker will be in power by then.
It didn't hurt them from 2010-2016 why would not passing comprehensive immigration reform hurt them now?
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