How Can the Republican Party Attract More White Voters?

[Dayton3]

With the African American vote going for Democrats more than 90% even before Barack Obama and the Hispanic vote for Republicans nosediving in 2008 (after reaching 42% in 2004), conventional wisdom has been that the GOP has to reach out to minorities to attract support in order to remain competitive.

Or does it?

Why not go the other way?

Why shouldn't the GOP make a major effort to win more of white voters.

IIRC, the percentage of white voters in presidential elections is still something like 70% or better. If the Republican Party could increase their percentage of the white vote to 70-75% then they could win most elections without requiring a single vote from blacks or Hispanics.

This sounds like a far easier task than pealing away a few percent of the voters going overwhelmingly for Democrats.

So what can the GOP do to attract more white voters?

 

[JonathonWally]

With the African American vote going for Democrats more than 90% even before Barack Obama and the Hispanic vote for Republicans nosediving in 2008 (after reaching 42% in 2004), conventional wisdom has been that the GOP has to reach out to minorities to attract support in order to remain competitive.

Or does it?

Why not go the other way?

Why shouldn't the GOP make a major effort to win more of white voters.

IIRC, the percentage of white voters in presidential elections is still something like 70% or better. If the Republican Party could increase their percentage of the white vote to 70-75% then they could win most elections without requiring a single vote from blacks or Hispanics.

This sounds like a far easier task than pealing away a few percent of the voters going overwhelmingly for Democrats.

So what can the GOP do to attract more white voters?

Um...

 

[T'Baio]

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Work for a party to be in power without a single minority vote.

Way to represent the people, Adolph.

 

[Mallory]

Why can't the party make an effort to include everyone, regardless of race, Dayton?

 

[Mr. B]

They could attract voters of all colors if they oppose the majority party instead of standing around with their thumbs up their asses like they've been doing.

 

[Danoz]

The biggest problem with your logic is that the majority of white Americans (particuarly among youth) would have an ethical problem with a party that appeared to overwhelmingly support "white" interests or vied more exclusively for a "white" vote. Also, what would this platform entail? Americans of all races/creeds in the lower-middle class feel left out by Republican/trickle-down theories of economics. The Republicans couldn't physically reach out the majority of white Americans without also providing benefits from poorer minority popluations (sans an outright racist set of policies that give whites benefits over others... which is, of course, ridiculous and unethical, and it would never fly). The only other issue I can think of would be border patrol and immigration, but all Americans, again, regardless of race are split on this issue as well.

Think these things you before you post! You risk sounding racist right now.

 

[Roger Wilco]

How about they try attracting voters with a brain regardless of their skin colour?
Fortunately for America, and the world, most people don't vote along ethnic lines, but for personal interest or what they percieve as such.

Personally, I find classification and analysis of voters based on such parameters as colour of skin and the assumption that these groups have some common opinion at least borderline racist to begin with.

 

[SPOCKED]

So what can the GOP do to attract more white voters?

They can take their campaign to The Neutral Zone.

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