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Topic: Advice for GOP: Don’t change your message; change the map |
Advice for GOP: Don’t change your message; change the map
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By:davesenior, 11/18/2012 1:49:02 AM
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| Winning the presidency isn’t about who you nominate, but about who votes —and most importantly about where they live.[SNIP]The truth is that people can restore our nation to its founding principles and they can do so without leaving their country—all they need to do is leave their state! Put another way:To change the future, change your demographics.If the Republican Party, for instance, could encourage 50,000 reliable Republican voters to move to Ohio over the next four years, they could probably compete in that crucial state in 2016.Likewise Florida.Likewise Colorado.That is the short-term solution.It sounds crazy, but it just might work.
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Comments: The author proposes an Electoral College solution that might give GOP a chance. Get Republican voters out of states where they are unwanted and unwelcome like California and boost their electoral count in states where they can make a difference. He calls it the Nonviolent Revolution of 2024.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
4Justice, 11/18/2012 2:04:14 AM (No. 9021440)
That is what the lefties did to California way back in the late 60s and early 70s. They stole our state from us and the carpetbaggers from the East Coast have been in control ever since. But to be truthful, we´d do much better taking back big states like California. This state has the most electoral votes by a long shot. Most red state have small numbers like 4 or maybe 9 votes. CA has 55 votes!! Besides, we natives want our state back from the commies. So, if the GOP were smart, they´d help us take back California... especially now that Hollyweird is moving out faster than ever before.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hisself, 11/18/2012 3:19:46 AM (No. 9021454)
How about we just ensure honest elections. Without fraud, the dumbocrats cannot win!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MissMann, 11/18/2012 3:34:17 AM (No. 9021459)
I agree with #2: job 1 is getting fraud out of the voting system, as much as possible.
But! With California dhimms having a super majority, I will be leaving as soon as possible. I can either go to a state where I am the majority (Texas sounds good to me!) or to a state where I might actually make a difference.
I love my country enough to give it a shot. Are there 50,000 other like me???
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
locarno, 11/18/2012 4:11:02 AM (No. 9021463)
Although I love Frank and enjoy his articles, this one is too far out there for me. Consider this: If 50,000 Republicans moved out of IL to OH, for example, and began voting, its possible we could turn around that one state for one or two cycles. But how do we compete with the endless flow of refugees from the inner cities & the other blue states that have wrecked their own homes, and move to red states hoping to wreck that too by voting for higher taxes and more democrats?
The GOP voters are out there, and I dare say, they do outnumber the mind-numbed robots on the left. Our #1 problem is the media narrative. Obama had 8 months to demonize Romney in OH, and there was no money or time for anyone to respond. By convention time, it was too late. We MUST regain the narrative. That IMHO, is our only chance of turning this country around.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 11/18/2012 4:26:29 AM (No. 9021468)
Let´s redraw the map, with borders around the coastal leftwing cities, and then declare independence from them. If you live more than 20 miles from Lake Erie in Ohio, you probably already live in a conservative state. If you live more than 30 miles from the Pacific Coast, you already live in a conservative state. There´s no need to move, just redraw our borders and fence out the leftwing cities.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Velox, 11/18/2012 5:47:28 AM (No. 9021490)
I have a better idea. Simply drive to those states, use a Hispanic surname and vote. Evidently, that´s what the other side does. Many areas get more voters than they have registered voters. Also the liberals are running the voting precincts and the counting the votes. We need to get control of that area or we can never take back our country.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 11/18/2012 7:05:42 AM (No. 9021542)
The Free State Project was suppose to do that. I helped with their formation. They chose New Hampshire, I chose Texas. The Republicans need to get their Black, Gay, Hispanics etc. out into the field to articulate the conservative position that has been poisoned by the Democrats. I also think that there was a fair amount of voter fraud going on this last election.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lazyman, 11/18/2012 7:39:23 AM (No. 9021577)
I´d go back to Vietnam before moving to Ohio.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/18/2012 8:00:16 AM (No. 9021607)
It would mean they will simply print 50,001 more fake ballots. Thats not a serious answer.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
birddog, 11/18/2012 8:42:53 AM (No. 9021693)
Nearly a decade late Mr. Miele. Take a look at the swing states...look at who has moved in, Dems. have been diluting Rep. Majorities in just this manner for years. NC, VA, Fla, NV, AZ. While the reliably Blue cities have a huge surplus of dependent Democrats they offer NO jobs or hope for future jobs and the young from these places move to those states that DO have jobs (or at least the HOPE of jobs). Even intrastate migration can be seen in it´s effect on Congressional seats...look at the dem. votes around colleges and "Job Corp" Locations.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/18/2012 9:22:22 AM (No. 9021756)
Please don´t ask me to leave Texas for Ohio.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
enuf8, 11/18/2012 12:46:52 PM (No. 9022148)
Curbing Voter fraud would eliminate the situation as well.
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