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Originally Posted by kane
That is true the general demographic and ethnic makeup of the country is changing. Also I think we are seeing more and more younger voters who are less effected by social politics. I saw a poll a few weeks ago about gay marriage. They broke it down by age group. As you would assume older people (mostly 50+) were pretty strongly opposed to gay marriage, but as the groupings got younger the approval rating of it went up. The group that was 15-18 year olds had a huge approval rating for gay marriage. Sure, when those voters get into their 40's they may change their views, but over the next 3-5 years will will still be more socially liberal.
What is helping the democrats most is that after the defeats of the last two years the republican party is left in shambles and is fighting among itself to find an identity. If they want to start winning elections they will have to come to some kind of common ground again and that doesn't see likely to happen for a little while.
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I don't think their views on gay marriage will change when they're in their 40's. I just think that people currently in their 40's have different views today because they grew up in a different era.
Just like my parents used the N word on a regular basis even though they really didn't dislike people of that race. It's just the era they grew up in.
I agree with you about the republicans. Their biggest problem is that they didn't stick to their principles when they were in power.
The congress gave Dubya everything he wanted, and Dubya never vetoed any of the pork and other waste that congress wanted to bring home to keep getting re-elected....so now, when they talk about smaller government and fiscal discipline, they look like idiots.
Sadly, the only thing they can really hope for, is that the economy continues to get worse so that they can make gains in 2010.
Otherwise, they're pretty much in the wilderness until 2014 or so.
In the meantime, I can only hope that people like Cantor keep doing stupid shit like comparing Obama to Putin, and that people like Rush Limbaugh continue to be the face of the republican party. If this keeps up the Dems will be looking at 62-65 Senate seats in 2010.
Then it's look out Sweden here we come.
