Is the Republican party done?

[giblets]

No. It's possible for the Republican party to become a fiscally conservative party, but moderate/centrist on social issues. Right now, too much of the Republican party is right-wing on social issues.

They could although I doubt that would help them cope with changing demographics. They should just move left on everything.

[onodera]

Here at CMU and at TJ and middle school, the schools I attended that had significant numbers of Asians (of all types), it was always understood that if you said "Asian" you meant far east and southeast, if you said "Indian" you meant India, and if you said "Middle Eastern" you meant anyone from the Muslim world (except Indonesia but I never knew any Indonesians).

Indonesia and Malaysia then, in this case. By the way, are Indonesians, Malaysians and Philippino Asian in this system of yours? Are Moroccans Middle Eastern? Bosnians? Tatars?

[onodera]

Here at CMU and at TJ and middle school, the schools I attended that had significant numbers of Asians (of all types), it was always understood that if you said "Asian" you meant far east and southeast, if you said "Indian" you meant India, and if you said "Middle Eastern" you meant anyone from the Muslim world (except Indonesia but I never knew any Indonesians).

Indonesia and Malaysia then, in this case. By the way, are Indonesians, Malaysians and Philippino Asian in this system of yours? Are Moroccans Middle Eastern? Bosnians? Tatars?

[Hauldren Collider]

I have never known any Moroccans, Bosnians, or Tatars, so I'm not going to comment on that.

I knew a couple Filipinos at TJ. They considered themselves "asian" so I'd go with that. But the point remains that if we're going to lump people together by continent, "Asian" should be split into the Far East, India etc.

[Hauldren Collider]

I misspoke. Instead of "always been," I should have said, "always been since end of Reconstruction."

No, always been since the 1980s.

[Guynemer]

(Actually, the biggest surprise of this election for me was Rah posting that he voted for Jill Stein.)

wat

[Hauldren Collider]

wat

QFT

[Elok]

This may actually shock someone in the GOP into abandoning the cult of Zombie Reagan. As for the changes they need to make to be palatable to the general population (as opposed to the changes I'd like them to make), they need to get friendly with Latinos, fast. They're a rapidly-growing segment of the population and they're still mostly religious; if the GOP can win them over, it'll have a lot more pull. Also, they need to rediscover the more populist brands of conservatism. Drop or downplay the stupid tax-phobia and alliance to large business interests, at least until the economy recovers and people forget to hate corporations so much. The decline of the modern family is a powerful issue the GOP could use far more effectively than social-libertarian Democrats could, the more so because it affects the poor much more than the rich. The trick is reframing it so it doesn't sound like they're bashing single mothers.

Social issues really aren't the albatross a lot of people think they are. Last I heard, the youngest cohort of Americans were actually the most pro-life segment of the population. As for gay issues, they are, for both parties, a political sideshow. Lots of people care about them, but not as much as they care about the economy or jobs or scary foreign people. The Republicans' main problem is that too many of them can't talk about these issues without jamming their feet in their mouths.

EDIT/PS: In my experience, Latinos don't much care for gays. Generally speaking, of course.

[Guynemer]

Here at CMU and at TJ and middle school, the schools I attended that had significant numbers of Asians (of all types), it was always understood that if you said "Asian" you meant far east and southeast, if you said "Indian" you meant India, and if you said "Middle Eastern" you meant anyone from the Muslim world (except Indonesia but I never knew any Indonesians).

You guys are aware that India has the single largest population of Muslims on Earth, right?

[DinoDoc]

wat

He can hardly be called a conservative by any real stretch of the imagination and has already stated that when he starts getting SS he'll switch to the Democrats to protect his entitlements.

[Hauldren Collider]

You guys are aware that India has the single largest population of Muslims on Earth, right?

No, Indonesia does.

He can hardly be called a conservative by any real stretch of the imagination and has already stated that when he starts getting SS he'll switch to the Democrats to protect his entitlements.

Welfare whore

[Guynemer]

Even I never considered voting for Stein. And I voted for Nader. Twice.

[Guynemer]

No, Indonesia does.

Huh. While I'll be damned. That must have changed in the last census. Mea culpa; my larger point remains, however.

[Hauldren Collider]

Last election the Greens nominated a suspected anti-semite (not Jill Stein) . In the meantime, Gary Johnson is by far the best candidate the LP has ever put forward.

[DinoDoc]

Even I never considered voting for Stein. And I voted for Nader. Twice.

You live in a swing state now. (I'm certain you are glad the ads have stopped) rah doesn't.