Republicans appear to be losing the white working-class voter. Who is going to vote for them?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Election-results-show-perils-of-extremism-E-J-2263040.php

Dionne: Election results show perils of extremism

E.J. DIONNE JR, Houston Chronicle Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

By E.J. DIONNE JR., WASHINGTON POST

Updated 07:19 p.m., Thursday, November 10, 2011

This week's elections around the country were brought to you by the word "overreach," specifically conservative overreach. snip

More at link. That copyright warning has me :scared:

[HopeHoops]

1. Diebold has that under control.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

9. I FEAR THAT THE VOTE COUNT HAS BEEN TOTALLY CORRUPTED

[HopeHoops]

10. Diebold - Protecting America from Democracy

[zbdent]

11. plus the 1% ... those are the ones that really count ...

[ananda]

2. How Reeps ever win anything is beyond me.

nt

[FSogol]

3. Pedophiles, bankers, grifters, racists, con men, and glassy eyed twerps filled with the Holy Spirit

:shrug:

[malaise]

14. Freaking perfect

:fistbump:
sp.

[Gamow]

4. White retirees. nt

[DURHAM D]

8. What an ignorant ageist remark...

[libinnyandia]

15. Senior citizens do tend to vote for republicans, forgetting

that they hav Social Security and Medicare because of the Democrats.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Fair Use doctrine, well established in U.S. copyright law over the

past century, trumps the Chronicle's blanket warning.

[coalition_unwilling]

6. Abraham Lincoln: ". . . You can fool all of the people some of the time." - n/t

[Old and In the Way]

7. If they could convert dollars into votes, we'd never win another election.

They sort of already do that, but not very efficiently. There's a lot of paid overhead that's needed to keep them relatively competitive. And it's getting more inefficient by the cycle. That's why they are working overtime to game elections by making it hard for people to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

[soapboxtalk]

12. Good news

The GOP is losing their grip on 1/2 of us...perhaps the Democrats are losing their grip on the other 1/2.

What happens if everyone gets fed up at the same time?

I think we're about to find out.

[baldguy]

13. The same people who've always voted for them: fools & religeous extremists.

If the GOP only got votes from the people the actually supported & represented, they'd only get 2-3% of the vote.

[Populist_Prole]

16. We went from being Reagan Democrats to Obama Republicans

Whooda' thunk?

Really though, as one of this group, the only peers I know that stay die hard rethugs are religious extremists, as 'baldguy' surmised.