Yeah, its not like they just got the majority of the votes in a nationwide election less than a year ago.
But I guess when your wagon is hitched to a 82 year old man with cognitive problems, the best you can do is hope the other side loses, rather than trying to win an election. Hence the tens of millions they will spend supporting people they call terrorists help win their nominations.
I've been hearing this line for about as long as I can remember. What your pictures tend to ignore is that most people when young are much more liberal and progressive and as they get older and gain more possessions, they tend to become more conservative.
Less than 10% of Republicans are below 35 years old.
Less than 12% are non white.
Less than a third of them identify as moderate.
Its hard to see how they can win an election.
And now for the rest of the story. Those numbers are Republican primary voters when Trump was the unchallenged incumbent.
Democrats are stuck with the incumbent bozo this time. And, yet, Democrats can't formalize Biden as their candidate until mid-August. Biden won't be able to turn things around in the six weeks before the election. So, Biden wins or loses reelection during the primaries. Good luck with that.
Those numbers are Republican primary voters when Trump was the unchallenged incumbent.
Not sure where you got that from but that is absolutely not what the NBC poll article says. The article does say
One, the GOP is slightly more diverse than it was in 2016, when 92% of all Republican voters were white (versus 89% now).
And two, the share of the GOP electorate without college degrees is larger. In 2012, 48% of Republicans didn’t have college degrees. By 2016, that percentage had increased to 58%.
Personally I don't put a whole lot of stock in primary electorate. They are usually the people that consider politics more of a game and they are the cheerleaders. Ideals may also shift when people go from the college world of make believe to the real world where they get to see how much of their earnings they get to hang onto.
Many famous people have been credited with this quotation, including Benjamin D'Israeli, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Otto Von Bismarck and George Bernard Shaw: “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”
And there you have it, the never ending battle between heart and mind. The difference between what you would like to see and what you can actually afford.
And if by the time you’re 65 and have not learned to use both, you have no wisdom…stuck in a perpetual state of selfish confusion as how to navigate the world.
As an avid reader of Jane Austen you will surely have noticed her well chosen titles Pride And Prejudice along with Sense And Sensibility, she chooses neither side but sees them as tools to temper the excesses of either. The heart and the brain become one.
Anyone who has carefully followed my posts on this site will have realized that I am capable of either favouring or disliking aspects of both sides - which does differ somewhat from most who refuse to consider the other side. At my age, and from my experiences, I've seen life from both sides now (with a credit for the expression to Joni).
Less than 10% of Republicans are below 35 years old.
Less than 12% are non white.
Less than a third of them identify as moderate.
Its hard to see how they can win an election.
Yeah, its not like they just got the majority of the votes in a nationwide election less than a year ago.
But I guess when your wagon is hitched to a 82 year old man with cognitive problems, the best you can do is hope the other side loses, rather than trying to win an election. Hence the tens of millions they will spend supporting people they call terrorists help win their nominations.
I've been hearing this line for about as long as I can remember. What your pictures tend to ignore is that most people when young are much more liberal and progressive and as they get older and gain more possessions, they tend to become more conservative.
And now for the rest of the story. Those numbers are Republican primary voters when Trump was the unchallenged incumbent.
Democrats are stuck with the incumbent bozo this time. And, yet, Democrats can't formalize Biden as their candidate until mid-August. Biden won't be able to turn things around in the six weeks before the election. So, Biden wins or loses reelection during the primaries. Good luck with that.
Not sure where you got that from but that is absolutely not what the NBC poll article says. The article does say
Not so fast....
Ruy Teixeira: Hispanic voters are still drifting toward the GOP – HotAir
And other demgraphics, especialy people of color, are becoming fed up with the Democrats and their broken promises
Dontcha know that to the left, Hispanics that lean right are now labeled as white, so they, too, are white supremacists.
They are doing the same with Asians after the SC shot down race discriminatory college admissions.
And yet.....
They do.
With some regularity.
It's almost as though the actual elections are decided by regular people who don't identify as political.
And all of them are qualified!
Personally I don't put a whole lot of stock in primary electorate. They are usually the people that consider politics more of a game and they are the cheerleaders. Ideals may also shift when people go from the college world of make believe to the real world where they get to see how much of their earnings they get to hang onto.
Many famous people have been credited with this quotation, including Benjamin D'Israeli, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Otto Von Bismarck and George Bernard Shaw: “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”
And there you have it, the never ending battle between heart and mind. The difference between what you would like to see and what you can actually afford.
And if by the time you’re 65 and have not learned to use both, you have no wisdom…stuck in a perpetual state of selfish confusion as how to navigate the world.
As an avid reader of Jane Austen you will surely have noticed her well chosen titles Pride And Prejudice along with Sense And Sensibility, she chooses neither side but sees them as tools to temper the excesses of either. The heart and the brain become one.
Everything I needed to know, I learned from the band Rush
Rush - Hemispheres
Anyone who has carefully followed my posts on this site will have realized that I am capable of either favouring or disliking aspects of both sides - which does differ somewhat from most who refuse to consider the other side. At my age, and from my experiences, I've seen life from both sides now (with a credit for the expression to Joni).
Joni is our Jane.
I think she would like that comparison.