I wouldn’t hold my breath that Hannity could “evolve” on any subject.

What the GOP is not taking into account in their skewed strategy is that educated and informed white people don’t support them either.

This is not a issue of race, so why bring it up?
I am a second generation American, and I thought it might make a diffidence to some to mention that.
I believe that All people should be accountable for there actions, and as I have this attitude,
We as a whole should not support drug users or those that are able to work.
I’m just saying that a line should be drawn were people that work hard for there moneys should have it a little better then those that work the system.
Thank you for looking at my statement with a open mind.

One other thing the repubs continue t9 do at their own risk is to let the religious extremists control much of their policies of exclusion. Politics is not the place for religion to take the forefront.

After being given the “Romney sneeer” at the postal station by an angry old white man, it only confirms my dedication as a Democrat. Truly, face it, these old folks are not going to be around that much longer. It’s interesting though how they don’t even care about their own children and grandchildren. I suppose if you can leave them hundreds of thousands of dollars, you don’t have to worry about them./ But, a lot of us can’t do that./ So, we HAVE to worry about them. It’s nice that Romney’s daddy gave them their first house. /

Thank you, Mimi2kool, you explained it perfectly. President Obama was not elected by just black people. He was re-elected by those of us who recognized that he really cares about ALL of us. He has proven time and time again that he understands what the country’s needs are and what can be done to FIX what was broken by others. The president and I knew the facts would speak for themselves and the majority of our fellow Americans agree.

There’s some very good reasons why this doesn’t work anymore.
1. There are fewer states it works on. Used to be you could count on states like Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio…these are now SWING states, and two of them, at least, swung blue twice in a row, and North Carolina…never thought I’d see the day THAT would be a swing state.
2. And this is a big one, this is a strategy of mutual exclusion. Namely, if you run the Southern strategy, there are states that you will get (and it isn’t saying there aren’t other ways to GET those states), but there are also states that you will LOSE by using that strategy. And not only can you not win with only the states it works with, but the states it causes you to lose…will cause you to lose the General Election

This is a good thing, it is a hateful, destructive strategy that increases diverseness, fear, and anger. You win by appealing to the very worst in people’s natures, and this sort of ‘scorched Earth’ campaign that leaves you with a candidate that has to live up to it in their policies if they want to use it again does the nation, or even those states it works with, no favors. We’re better off without it.

It was obvious during the Republican/Tea Party primary and the presidential campaign that race played a large part in their “them” vs. “us” diatribes and rants. Eventhough africans in America make up only 30% of the U.S. population (38m), we have been the target of white supremaxist politics for the last 150 years. Even when Africans in America ignored the bs in late 19 and early 20th century to build nationhood within the nation, we were attacked, invaded, and criminalized. Since the election of President Obama, many people has attempted to deny race as an issue of the criticism that he recieves from the fringe, the GOP, and Tea Party, but it is an issue and always has been an issue. Listen to what Rush Limbo said after the election, that “we” (whites) should separate from the United States, re-create the confederacy, and install Myth Romney and Paul Romney as president and VP. That treasonous diatribe sparked a riot on the Ole Miss campus in Mississippi where “educated”, “intelligent” college students rallied, using ugly racial slur and calling for a separate nation. Just yesterday a woman was investigated by the secret service for posting racial remarks regarding President Obama and saying that “tyhis time he ought to be assassinated.” This same sorry hatred was prevalent in 1865, the 19th century, and is still prevalent in the U.S. today in the 21st century. It is shameful that because we have an African president of the U.S. and half the country, especially those here in the south can’t separate their deep and intrinsic indoctrination of white supremacy from reality and can’t, from this illusion of white supremacy, separate Africans or this African president from the ugly caricatures and stereotypes that they see us from. Where is the intelligence, the Christianity, the human dignity in all of this? There is none, because they would prefer to see their own nation be torn apart than to stand up and be true Americans. But, the aristocrats of white supremacy has always used the poor and the persecuted among them to carry out their sorry agenda, and it is saddening to see a white, who is a victim of poverty and persecution from this same white supremacist, to act out the barbarism, animalistic savagery, and evil. When, if ever, will we get pass this and move forward into the future? America needs progress now, not hatred, for its healing and recovery.

I am an 84 year old white female, native Texan. I can remember when lots of Southern white folks still hated Republicans because Lincoln freed the slaves and burned crops and buildings all over the South. In the 50s these Southern Democrats were called DixieCrats, and they began drifting toward the Republican party. It was not until the voting rights act that there was much realization that minorities would have any influence in politics. Just a little look at history. An Obama supporter.

I guess hitching your wagon to the John Birch Society was not as smart of a move as they thought it was.

Time to finish the job. I hope that the koch brothers wind up getting audited for the rest of their miserable lives.

Particularly for the GOP, mainly because what they currently espouse is WHAT they feel and what they believe in!!

Mitt of the LDS was thinking the hold time how can I win? I got all the money people giving me Billions,I have the Don,Rush,Rove and Vegas money hell I know I can fool the middle calls $250,000.00 up I don’t need the 47%. I should win……

The large number of brainwashed, misguided Fox News listeners that post on Yahoo is really sad. So many are not only convinced that all liberals are on the ‘take’, many also have the misguided notion that Obama is a big spender and is responsible for all 16 trillion of America’s debt. Fox News has done such a thorough brainwashing job that it’s almost a total waste of time trying to clue them in with the truth…and that’s another problem…Republicans seem to be so used to their candidates spewing lies, that they don’t even believe the truth when they hear it…to them, the truth is a lie. It’s really sad Fox News has gotten away for so long broadcasting distorted news and even censoring news that’s not favorable to the GOP.

Republicans haven’t kept up with demographic changes. In 1956 Eisenhower ran against Stevenson for the second time. The democrat won the 7 southern states, Eisenhower won the rest of the nation. Now the Democrats won the East coast, West coast and swing states. Without a mass migration of Republicans from decidedly blue states into swing states there’s really no hope for a national win. Because Republicans don’t see a problem with their core beliefs, just ineffectual messaging. They’re wrong. Social issues shouldn’t be decided nationally, how can they be? Gay marriage isn’t a political issue. Contraception isn’t a political issue. Religion isn’t a political issue. Or at least they’re not a an issue that should be decided by politicians. Not dealing with illegal immigrants already here is foolish and that’s a political issue. Not resolving the deficit and debt are political issues where EVERYTHING should be on the table. Limbaugh, Akin and Mourdock did their best to alienate women. Grover Norquist sealed the deal with taxes.

Hillbilly, I am from North Carolina and we are in between red and blue…..2008 we went blue, this year we went back to red. I think that there is a generalization that people from the South are somewhat a step behind. We are not here in NC, partly because of our education system and Research Triangle Park so a lot of people come here and move to our state from everywhere. I am Southern, however not deep South and there is a difference amongst us, we are not all the same.

That being said, perhaps you do not have anyone in your family or know of anyone who is on public assistance; however I can assure you that a lot of the people who voted for Mitt Romney receive some kind of so called handout. Also, some of the people who voted for Obama also receive some assistance as well. We need to move away from blue and red, handouts, food stamps and other code words to describe one another. How did we get to the point that we have cities and rural areas where the poor are so beaten down they cannot get up?

We are all Americans and yes there are some of our fellow citizens that are hurting and need some help, there are some that can and want to work but cannot find a job(poor areas, lack of education, skills) and there are some that do not want to work for whatever reason(gave up, lack of motivation, other reasons) and further still there are many who are disabled(my sister is deaf) and they just do not have the same opportunities as others. Everyone cannot pull themselves up because they do not have the mental or physical strength to do so, they are held back or hold themselves back and some just give up. Its easy to make assumptions about each other rather than stop to think about or help the poor because it takes less time to label people lazy and ignorant.

Well done article . But the GOP problems with demographics run even deeper than MS Tucker outlined. Asian americans went 73% for Obama,they are increasing rapidly in both population and voters.Florida has broken the southern strategy twice in a row.Virginia as well.Probably Georgia with its large Afro-american population and a rapidly growing Latino population will be the next to crumble from the shrinking electoral cake.Other southern states have growing Latino populations as well.
Three of the top four electoral states are now blue. California is so blue it is purple, New York much the same. Florida moving in that direction and all that 47% , takers, want stuff crap doesnt even phase anybody. It is a tired song playing to a tired choir.
The genuine end of this racist old whiteboys network will be when Texas crosses into blue in a couple more cycles.That will create the mathematical impossibility of any more GOP wins. But it is even more grim for the GOP…..young people (under 35)are 60% demo in outlook. Unmarried women even higher. Overall women are 55% plus democratic voting and that figure is only going to go up.
Worse yet is the fact that the majority of teenagers today do not share either the racist or sexist views on minorities, women,gays or birth control of the hard right GOP. Many of their own children will grow into “traitors” to the right wing extremists.One does not hear kids talking about how cool Rush,Sean,or Mitt are.The same is also true for any of the cast and crew from this year’s GOP clown car
The GOP took its lumps in a well orchestrated campaign. But is is the numbers that are going to kill them.Large percentages of the population want to tax the rich more. Despite Fox News attempts to the contrary, people will soon realize that we can tax corporations more, create a separate property tax role for HUGE businesses.Microsoft or even General Motors should pay a higher property tax rate than you or I. All these numbers are lethal unless the GOP undergoes major changes.

Younger voters last a long time. Angry old white guys die at alarming rates.

How do Republicans plan on generating enough angry old white guys to remain relevant?

because BUSH totally ruined the economy by giving tax breaks to the wealthy, started a very expensive war with iraq for no reason, and started a prescription drug plan.
none of this was paid for. he left the payments for mr. obama.
zeldaq

Voting-Rights Law Gets Supreme Court Review

The Supreme Court will consider overturning a signal achievement of the civil rights movement, agreeing to hear a challenge to part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in a case loaded with racial and political ramifications.

Acting three days after minority voters propelled President Barack Obama to re-election, the court Friday said it will review a provision that requires all or part of 16 mostly Southern states to get federal approval before changing their voting rules. Opponents say that “preclearance” provision is no longer warranted.

With the justices already considering whether to roll back university affirmative action, the court’s current term is now a potential watershed for the legal rules governing race. Chief Justice John Roberts has questioned the constitutionality of the preclearance rule, which the Obama administration used this year to stop Republican-backed voter-identification laws in Texas and South Carolina from going into effect.

Preclearance “has been one of the most powerful tools in the civil rights arsenal,” said Heather Gerken, a professor at Yale Law School who specializes in election and constitutional law. “It’s made more of a difference in improving the civil rights of African Americans than any other statute I can think of.”
The Voting Rights Act was enacted to combat discrimination that kept black people away from Southern polling places for generations. A separate section of the law bars voting discrimination nationwide and isn’t affected by the high court case.
Under the preclearance requirement, a covered jurisdiction must seek approval from the Justice Department or a federal court before changing voting district lines, polling places or other aspects of the election system. The Justice Department has used the requirement, also known as Section 5, to object to more than 2,400 state and local voting changes since 1982.
In the case before the justices, Shelby County, Ala., objects to the law’s method for determining which states are subject to Section 5. The law uses a formula that relies on a state’s decades-old voting patterns and rules.
The formula was designed to include the states with the deepest history of racial discrimination — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia. Three other states — Alaska, Arizona and Texas — were added in the 1970s when the statute was expanded to protect “language minority” groups.
Congress let some areas escape coverage if they can show compliance with anti-discrimination rules. Lawmakers also allowed judges to put other areas under the preclearance system.
Shelby County contends that when Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it lacked grounds for treating some states differently than others. The county says the voter-ID laws in Texas and South Carolina shouldn’t be judged under a tougher standard than those in non-covered states.
The Obama administration urged the court not to take up the issue, saying a federal appeals court was correct in upholding the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby County case. The administration points to instances of intentional discrimination in covered states and to data it says show that those jurisdictions still need close monitoring.
A Supreme Court ruling in a 2009 case indicated that a majority of the nine justices may consider Section 5 to be outdated. Roberts wrote for the court that the provision raised “serious constitutional questions” because it applied only to some parts of the country. “We are now a very different nation” than in 1965, Roberts wrote.
Supporters of the Voting Rights Act say the 2012 election shows the law is still needed. Democrats and minority groups say Republicans engaged in voter suppression by imposing identification requirements and limiting early voting hours.
“The America that elected and re-elected Barack Obama as its first African American president is far different than when the Voting Rights Act was first enacted in 1965,” said Edward Blum, who helped put the Shelby County lawsuit together as director of the Alexandria, Va.-based Project on Fair Representation. “Congress unwisely reauthorized a bill that is stuck in a Jim Crow-era time warp. It is unconstitutional.”

rejection is a bear to get over. enjoy this wonderful new feeling mr romney and you are still unemployed – take some time lick your wounds and fire someone.

How is Frum reality-based? Not only did he come up with Axis of Evil, but he co-wrote a book calling for America to bomb the entire world! He may be reality-based compared to some of his fellow Repubs, but he’s still a delusional and intellectually bankrupt hack!