http://sorendayton.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:08:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sorendayton.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-696 eyeon08.com » Birth of a meme: Huck as the real Fred Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:34:49 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-696 [...] While I see the logic in all of this, I do think that something else is going on with Huckabee. After all, Fred supporters didn’t want a soft-on-immigration populist who could change the party. They wanted to keep the whole game together. Somehow, I don’t think that’s Huckabee’s game. [...] [...] While I see the logic in all of this, I do think that something else is going on with Huckabee. After all, Fred supporters didn’t want a soft-on-immigration populist who could change the party. They wanted to keep the whole game together. Somehow, I don’t think that’s Huckabee’s game. [...]

]]> http://sorendayton.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-695 eyeon08.com » The base, the groups, and the candidates Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:00:05 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-695 [...] Recognizing the same patterns that I discussed the other day, they see where we can mine for more votes: For three decades, the Republican party has absorbed increasing numbers of socially conservative working-class and middleclass voters while losing affluent social liberals—until the 2006 elections, in which Republican totals fell among every category of voter except for full-spectrum conservatives. The most plausible path toward a renewed center-right majority involves consolidating and deepening the trend of the decades before 2006: holding on to as much of the existing conservative coalition as possible while adding more downscale voters who lean right on social issues. [...] [...] Recognizing the same patterns that I discussed the other day, they see where we can mine for more votes: For three decades, the Republican party has absorbed increasing numbers of socially conservative working-class and middleclass voters while losing affluent social liberals—until the 2006 elections, in which Republican totals fell among every category of voter except for full-spectrum conservatives. The most plausible path toward a renewed center-right majority involves consolidating and deepening the trend of the decades before 2006: holding on to as much of the existing conservative coalition as possible while adding more downscale voters who lean right on social issues. [...]

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