An Interview With J. C. Watts WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 — There is much talk in Republican circles these days about growing the party especially after the results of the 2012 election. The rapid demographic shift happening in the country is the biggest threat to the party’s survival. The problem is that the nation is getting more diverse while Republicans are not. According to one conservative columnist at TownHall “Aside from being a weak candidate, Romney lost the election because he refused to ask for the minority vote in a meaningful way. Romney “leaned in” to whites and won 60 percent of their vote, the highest of any candidate since 1988 and “leaned out” from the minority vote and bombed the election. Obama won 73 percent of the Latino vote at 27 percent, Blacks three percent and 71 percent of the Asian vote. After the 2012 election Ross Douthat in an op-ed for The New York Times explained the dire situation this way, “Reliable Republican constituencies — whites, married couples and churchgoers — are shrinking as a share of the electorate. Democratic-leaning constituencies — minorities, recent immigrants, the unmarried and unchurched — are growing, and voting in larger numbers than in the past.” Read more: hiphoprepublican/an-interview-with-j-c-watts/
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