TexMac
08-25-2011, 11:13 AM
A pretty amazing article for this hardcore Republican blog. They're looking at the internals of the latest Gallup poll:
A Snap-Shot of the Future GOP (http://race42012.com/2011/08/25/a-snap-shot-of-the-future-gop/)
Amongst the people who are going to comprise the bulk of the mainstream GOP in 20-40 years, Ron Paul is far and away the frontrunner, with 29% of the vote. Perry follows at 21%, with Bachmann at 12%, and Romney in a distant fourth place at 11%.
This younger generation is a generation that has a stomach for severe fiscal austerity, that is culturally modern, and that is fed up with endless, pointless wars. They’re comfortable supporting a candidate who promises to slash entitlements, because they know they’re not going to get any of the benefits they’re supposedly paying for. They gladly support a candidate who wants to roll back the big-government foreign policy, because they’ve been used and abused in unnecessary wars and nation-building. They’re fine with voting for a guy who’s going to end the War on Drugs, because they–like their great grandparents did–see that prohibition has been a complete failure.
Paul and Bachmann, two of the most anti-establishment, fiscally conservative, state sovereignty-supporting, non-interventionist voices in the current Republican line-up (apart from Johnson), both poll best among this group. Combined, they make up 41% of this electorate. Factor in the support for other socially moderate candidates (Giuliani, Huntsman, Pataki, Johnson), and even–to an extent–the supporters of Palin, who would basically de-fund marijuana prohibition and pare down the Patriot Act, and this sounds the death knell for the Moral Majority, government-in-your-bedroom Republicans.
More at the link.
A Snap-Shot of the Future GOP (http://race42012.com/2011/08/25/a-snap-shot-of-the-future-gop/)
Amongst the people who are going to comprise the bulk of the mainstream GOP in 20-40 years, Ron Paul is far and away the frontrunner, with 29% of the vote. Perry follows at 21%, with Bachmann at 12%, and Romney in a distant fourth place at 11%.
This younger generation is a generation that has a stomach for severe fiscal austerity, that is culturally modern, and that is fed up with endless, pointless wars. They’re comfortable supporting a candidate who promises to slash entitlements, because they know they’re not going to get any of the benefits they’re supposedly paying for. They gladly support a candidate who wants to roll back the big-government foreign policy, because they’ve been used and abused in unnecessary wars and nation-building. They’re fine with voting for a guy who’s going to end the War on Drugs, because they–like their great grandparents did–see that prohibition has been a complete failure.
Paul and Bachmann, two of the most anti-establishment, fiscally conservative, state sovereignty-supporting, non-interventionist voices in the current Republican line-up (apart from Johnson), both poll best among this group. Combined, they make up 41% of this electorate. Factor in the support for other socially moderate candidates (Giuliani, Huntsman, Pataki, Johnson), and even–to an extent–the supporters of Palin, who would basically de-fund marijuana prohibition and pare down the Patriot Act, and this sounds the death knell for the Moral Majority, government-in-your-bedroom Republicans.
More at the link.