http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/ Covering the 2008 election Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:42:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-37896 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:34:49 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-37896 [...] 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://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-37728 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:00:05 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/11/26/huckabee-affluents-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-37728 [...] 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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