What should, perhaps, worry the Republicans most about this year’s election result is that they lost in the fastest growing states in the country and among the fastest growing demographics. Many of the states the Republicans lost this year—I’m thinking in particular of Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada—are, on current trends, going to become more and more Democratic over time. Unless the Republican Party finds a way to reverse these trends, they will be reliant on perfect conditions to win at a national level.
Steve Schmidt, who effectively ran the McCain campaign, is I think right to be so pessimistic in his interview with The Daily Beast about the state the Republicans are in:
“If you look at the returns from the southwestern and mountain west states, with rising Latino populations, it’s clear that Latinos are repudiating the party, their anger about the tone of the immigration debate, and the party has to figure out a way to communicate that wanting to have a secure and sovereign southern border and respect for Latinos are not mutually exclusive.
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