Official 2012 Election Day Thread

[12thMan]

Not only do the GOP have a demographic problem, but now they're starting to have a geographic problem. President Obama lost North Carolina by only 3 points and Georgia...GEORGIA! by 8 points. Consider Obama lost Mississippi by 11 points, but 89% of the white turnout voted Romney. Basically Romney maxed out on a shrinking demo, while the state is turning younger and browner. So the spread in the next presidential election will start to close in many of these southern states that were once reliably red. I see GA, MS, NC, and maybe LA, down the road, becoming battleground states. In each of those southern states, we're starting to see high African-American turnouts.

Point being, immigration legislation alone won't solve all the Republicans problems. The GOP ignores ethnic solidarity. You can't court JUST Latinos and berate African Americans and expect demos to shift your way.