GOP strategists have revealed that the Romney campaign is attempting to garner 61% of the white vote. Admitting the future realities of America’s racial demographic, one strategist said of the strategy, “This is the last time anyone will try to do this.” Obama, on the other hand, is aiming for 80% of the minority vote, according to The National Journal.
One shouldn’t be so surprised about Romney’s Great White Hunt. Sure, Romney enjoys some minority support with his GOP policy, but Romney’s white bread version of capitalism is very attractive to, well, white people. Especially to those business owners who, through very effective propaganda, believe their success is constantly under assault by the Democrats, and the boogeyman Barack Obama, who’d like to steal all their hard-earned cash and give it to deadbeat welfare queens and Medicare/Medicaid vampires.
What Americans following the election should be interested in here are two things: 1) What it would mean to get 61% of the white vote, and 2) what the future holds for the GOP, and how a number of policies are being argued to counteract reality.
To address the first, briefly, if Romney manages to get 61% of the white vote, he will have equaled or surpassed GOP presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. In 2008, John McCain garnered 55% of the white vote. If Romney succeeds in the 2008 white voter turnout, what will this mean? Well, either that the GOP will have been quite good at driving voter turnout at the grassroots level, or that white voters are really pissed off and grassroots efforts are irrelevant.
With the voter turnout remaining relatively static over the last few decades—somewhere between 50 and 55%, though 2004 and 2008 were exceptions—get-out-the vote drives don’t really seem too effective. Instead, voters from either party seem to be more motivated to stop a candidate or end a party’s control, as we saw in 2004 and 2008, respectively. And this, too, will likely be the conservative white voters’ motivation in 2012: stop Obama at all costs.
Now to the future of elections in America.
With minority populations only set to increase exponentially in the next few decades, the GOP is presented with a problem. The Hispanic population is set to rise to 29% of the US population in 2050. African-American population growth is expected to level off, while the Asian population will grow from 5% to 9% over the same period, according to the Pew Research Center. Those should be troubling statistics for the GOP.
Is it any wonder then that the GOP is so anti-immigration (the wall, deportation, zero amnesty, etc.), or is hell-bent on pursuing voter ID laws, stopping election day registration, and ending early voting, which many believe will discourage the minority vote? This isn’t pure coincidence. By the same token, one could argue that the Democrats are pro-immigration and anti-voter ID laws for the inverse reason: it will inflate their voter base. Despite this courting of the minority vote, the Democratic philosophy here is the better one—there is no reason to demonize immigrants, and voter IDs really aren’t necessary because the degree of voter fraud is so marginal as to be insignificant. Attacking immigrants and crafting voter ID laws will only drive the majority of minority voters into the welcoming arms of the Democratic party.
If the GOP wants to play the voter ID game, then obtaining IDs must be made simple and cheap, and should be passed in a non-presidential election year, like 2013. Until then, Romney’s Great White Hunt is the GOP’s best strategy, because minorities sure as hell aren’t buying into his brand of elitist, white male capitalism.
[Photo: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman]
August 27, 2012 at 7:45 pm, Aaron Keith said:
I will not be one of those white people voting for Romney. I'm not a red neck and I care about people. It just doesn't work.
August 27, 2012 at 6:58 pm, Happy Hour - The Daily What said:
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August 28, 2012 at 2:03 am, Rob Kane said:
The Republican platform is constantly lamenting the welfare recipients when the majority of recipients are white but the biggest welfare checks subsidize big business (so much for the free market they profess so adamantly).
August 28, 2012 at 3:29 am, Dave Francis said:
According to the Heritage Foundation another blanket amnesty comparable to what took place in 1986, the cost would be phenomenal, at an outlay of $2.6 trillion dollars from the inception to the end of processing. This cost would be once again forced from the U.S. taxpayer by the IRS, to fund such a unfettered nightmare. Not only would it further encourage millions of more illegal aliens to try their luck at the borders, but it would be a silent fanfare across the world, that not only if you can smuggle a unborn child into the United States that the taxpaying public will subsidize you, but the child can collect the benefits of citizenship. Only the insistence of the TEA PARTY, voting into law the BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP can bring this outrageous law to a resounding halt. Further to be included E-VERIFY or less known as THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT can finally bring to a halt BUSINESSES FROM USING CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR. If not passed the future will be a terrible tax burden for Americans to bear, as we are already owned by foreign countries at a cost of $16 Trillion dollars. Adding further to this incomprehensible amount would be an outrage of another $2.6 to provide another mass amnesty. This is certainly on the Socialist agenda of President Obama, if he hopes to win in November to enact a wide-ranging amnesty.
In 2007 pointing out that the big problem with mass legalization is that (a) most illegal aliens are low-skilled, poorly educated and therefore do not earn enough money to pay enough taxes to cover the government benefits they receive, and (b), amnesty would eventually make them eligible for the full array of welfare and medical benefits, Medicare, Medicade offered by local, state and federal governments. The Heritage found the cost of allowing illegal aliens to remain in the United States, and eventually to become citizens, would be $3.7 trillion. The only thing we would gain from this future would be overpopulation, further destruction of our infrastructure, sparse farmland, propagation of more apartments and housing, loss of habitat for wild creatures, food and energy shortages, more criminal aliens entering our country and even more poverty, which the populace will be committed to feed, house and medical. The real gainers will be businesses to lower wages, less benefits and an unsettling likelihood of civil unrest. The winners the wealthy gaining cheap labor and for the Democrats who overwhelming will turn this nation into an entitlement country for the freeloaders, the dead beats, parasite who sits around and doesn’t work, with mooches who live off the rest of us–illegal alien and citizen alike?
THIS MIND BOGGLING ISSUE IS NOT ABOUT HISPANICS; IT’S ABOUT—ALL—ILLEGAL ALIENS, WHATEVER COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM?
The only way to stop this corruption mess is to adopt the rational reasoning and a strong observance of the Constitutional TEA PARTY plan. Just stop and think about it, because if either the Democrat or Republican gains a full influence the winners will not be THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? The more political party incumbents kicked out and replaced with TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP the better chance of a better future for every legal resident. ENOUGH GOOD AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN CRIPPLE THE USUAL, STAY AS IT IS, QUID PRO QUO. Stop the lobbyists who gain their influence through legal and illegal campaign contributions, free handouts and under the table cash. Neither party is trustworthy in my eyes, that’s why changed my political party from Democrat to Independent. Now is the time to join one of thousands of branches of your local TEA PARTY, a quiet revolution to take the huge power and influence from the corrupt and return it to the taxpayer. Investigate the TEA PARTY yourself, and then decide your party? GO TO NumbersUSA, Judicial Watch and the TEA PARTY DOT ORG. The Democrats who will ignore non-voters who register and then the Republicans who use their influence to keep cheap labor from entering America. YOU’RE COUNTRY, YOUR VOTE NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER?
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August 30, 2012 at 9:59 pm, Uniquely Beautiful, Naturally. said:
You don't have to bother with 61% of the white vote, because Carl Rove has raised enough money to buy 100% of the white house.
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November 12, 2012 at 9:44 pm, The Mature Response « Our Not So Expert Opinions said:
[...] secession, maybe, just maybe, the Republicans can change their strategy from one of trying to get 61% of the white vote to win an election to one that includes all Americans. Novel concept, I know, but they could try [...]