And it came to pass that the great hero broke the spell and set free the serfs of Iowa and Carolina. And the scribes and town criers sang his praises and told of his great deeds and of his victory and prophesied the death of the dark Queen......

Blacks have been voting overwhelmingly for Democrats for close to 50 years now. The Republicans have had tons of chances to get a higher percentage and all of them have failed.

This supports my argument. Republican haven't had to 'win' over minorities over the last 50 years for there to be periods of Republican Presidents and Republican congresses. They've only had to win enough different people over to win elections, the same as the Democrats try to do.

You are forgetting that a political party has to be able to win a certain number of elections to remain relevant.
The Republican party will soon not be able to win enough elections to remain relevant.

My argument addresses this. This is only a problem if you apply static thinking to the Republican position. The party will only become irrelevant if they don't change. But just as 'nature abhors a vacuum' the party will change to incorporate roughly 1/3 of the population as outlined above. The GOP position may not resemble its current form, but as a party it will survive.

Many predicted the demise of the Democrat party after Reagan and the Reagan Democrats established the predominance of the Republican party for the time, but the Democrats adjusted their line to include more of middle America and they recaptured the initiative. One thing about pendulum's -- they swing both ways.

The Republicans will go out of existence well before any change can occur that will get blacks, Hispanics, or Asians to vote for them.

That's just a Democrat wet dream, you should be careful who you are listening to. If the Republicans change to slowly it will affect them for a few election cycles before the new Republican party emerges.

Given minorities refusal to vote for Republicans and the number of noncompetitive districts, there are few prospects for 20 somethings who want to be Republicans. The Bush Administration has destroyed the next generation of Republicans.

With all demographic trends against Republicans and with no next generation, it is just a matter of time before the Republicans go away.

If Hillary Clinton cannot find issue or a campaign strategy that will get black to vote for her, then there is nothing that Republicans can do. The Republicans will go out of existence well before any change can occur that will get blacks, Hispanics, or Asians to vote for them.

And before that they voted overwelmingly GOP.

and for good reason in both instances.

And before that they voted overwelmingly GOP.

That is the points. Things change, and you have to account for that change.

Many Americans are quite comfortable living in a one party state. Look at states like Maryland or Mass. Look at people living in DC, Chicago, Cleveland, or Detroit. Most of them have probably never voted for a Republican or most general election in urban centers are moot exercises for local elections that were decided in the Democratic primary.

It is much easier to believe that black and Hispanics keep voting for the Democratic Party rather than believe than the republicans can find a strategy that can appeal to them. If Edwards or Clinton cannot get blacks to vote for them. The Republicans are certainly not going to get any minority votes.

This assumes that nothing changes-either for the non white as a voter or for those who run/participate in/identify as republican.

Power shifts, and I just don't see the American voter handing the keys over permanently to one party to reek whatever havoc they so choose.

At some point, the voter realizes they don't like the havoc being reeked, and they vote the other direction.

America is about 1/3 non-white and non-whites rarely if ever vote for Republicans. That means that Republicans have to win a majority of the white vote (actually about 54% these days). If non-whites turned out to vote as the same rate as whites, the Republican Party would be irrelevant today.

Since the Hispanic and black populations are growing faster than whites and minority voter turnout is going up. That is why over 100 Democratic Congressmen are running for reelection unopposed.

Demographics ensures that the Democratic Party will become dominate eventually. The failures of the Bush Administration have just sped up the process.

So in the future, the Democratic primary for president will be the de facto Presidential elections but like the Democratic primaries in Chicago are the real election.

The Democratic Party has dominated in places like Philly and Baltimore for decades. Has the Republicans managed to adjust to the population? I have not seen it.

If you have a secret of how Republicans can appeal to blacks and Hispanics, they will pay you a lot for it. They have tried to decades and every idea has failed miserably.

As the Republican Party collapses and the Democratic Party becomes the only relevant political party, I think that America is seeing the future of politics.

The Republican Party will just redefine itself to incorporate enough people to remain or become again viable. Much like the Democrat party did after Reagan/Bush 41 prior to the advent of Hillbilly boy.
After all there are only two main opposed operative political stances that drive the American political process. 'We has Power' and 'We wants Power.' Everything else is just apparently window dressing.

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