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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015

The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.

Author:     DANIEL J. MCGRAW
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     May 17, 2015
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Stephan:   I think this is an accurate assessment of one of the principal trends shaping the Republican Party. To this report I would add another trend in the party: It is increasingly a party of the old Confederacy, and overwhelmingly made up of aging Whites. What this article does not address is the fact that the House has been so gerrymandered that for the foreseeable future it seems probable that it will remain in the hands of the Republicans. Nor does the article address the corruption of American politics. The net-net of this, I think, is going to be a party controlling one house of the Congress, owned by a small group of uber-rich individuals, and the corporations they control, increasingly religious, racist, and fearful. They may be dying off, but their exit stage right is not going to be easy of pleasant. And the effect it will have on climate change may be catastrophic.
Elderly Republicans Credit: telegraph.co.uk

Elderly Republicans
Credit: telegraph.co.uk

It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party’s biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party’s own nickname. The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older, and as the adage goes, there are two certainties in life: Death and taxes. Right now, both are enemies of the GOP and they might want to worry more about the former than the latter.

There’s been much written about how millennials are becoming a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but there’s been much less attention paid to one of the biggest get-out-the-vote challenges for the Republican Party heading into the next presidential election: Hundreds of thousands of their traditional core supporters won’t be able to turn out to vote at all.

The party’s core is dying off by the day.

Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections. To make matters worse, the GOP is attracting fewer […]

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