Originally Posted By: Dapper_Don
this isnt the article i found but this trend is now even more magnified

GOP’s Base Now Predominately Uneducated, Poor White Folk

It seems that the GOP’s current stance on social, cultural and religious issues is finally managing to weed out…well pretty much everyone who has an actual thought process:

Republicans have lost an enormous amount of support among upscale voters, basically just breaking even among those with household incomes above $50,000 a year, a traditional GOP stronghold. Similarly, McCain’s losing to Obama among college graduates and voters who have attended some college underscores how much the GOP franchise is in trouble. My hunch is that the Republican Party’s focus on social, cultural, and religious issues — most notably, fights over embryonic-stem-cell research and Terri Schiavo — cost its candidates dearly among upscale voters.

Sadly, judging by the popular vote totals there’s still a whole crapload of them left.

http://jamespoling.com/gops-base-now-predominately-uneducated-poor-white-folk/


Indeed that was the story of the 2010 mid terms. You have shared good accurate information. The story of the 2012 election (besides the economy) will be whether the Democrats can hold on to just enough white working class (non-college educated) voters while maintaining a slight lead everywhere else.

If so they can win. This is a matter of great interest to political analysts. There was a long discussion on C-SPAN which I can't find right now but this article discusses the future of the Obama coalition in much the same terms.

To bring it back to the post subject, Limbaugh's insult is not just a financial misstep for him but it could be symbolic of future Republican losses among white women voters. Certainly the Democrats will do all they can to play this up in the future. The best thing that could happen for the Republicans is that Romney wins the nomination and the Republican disagreements over abortion/contraception/women working/etc are swept under the table.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.