Wednesday, September 9, 2015

The White Vote and the GOP: Some activists believe minority votes don't matter, they may be right!

US News & World Reports' At The Edge Blog ^ | September 8, 2015 | Jeff Nesbit 

Is the white vote returning to American politics?
Four recent national polls all confirm what is likely to be the galvanizing force of the GOP presidential primary season at least through next spring and what is almost certainly behind Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" surge: an effort to bring disaffected white voters back to voting booths.
Nearly every political and social scientist in America has predicted for years that demographics are shifting inexorably against the Republican Party nationally -- that growing numbers of Hispanic and Millennial voters will join black voters in keeping the GOP from capturing the White House in 2016 without a shift in both rhetoric and policies at the federal level.
But they very well may be wrong, at least in the short term. Which may explain why Trump not only seems not to care that he's deeply angering (and offending) Hispanic voters with rhetoric about southern border walls and rapists, he's gambling that this sort of rhetoric will bring millions of white voters back into politics and the voting booth in 2016 for the GOP, checkmating the turnout of black, Hispanic and Millennial voters....
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