John A. Farrell

The Emerging Democratic Majority

November 4, 2008 RSS Feed Print

A decade ago, ace political analysts Ruy Teixeira and John Judis foresaw a new Democratic coalition—of women, African-Americans, Hispanics, suburbanites, young people and professionals—that would form "The Emerging Democratic Majority."

Then came September 11, and history, for a time, seemed to have interrupted the inevitability of demography. Teixeira and Judis got a lot of ribbing.

But now, it's clear, they got it right. And that's what makes tonight's exit polls so very, very bad for the Republicans.

The GOP needs to move back to the center, quickly, and learn to compete for those bands of voters that Obama won tonight.

In politics, demography is destiny. Have Republicans learned that?

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partnertreff of 1:16AM March 31, 2010

The GOP, as epitomized by Sarah Palin, seems to be pitching itself more and more to the lower education, lower information white voter.

Intelligent, circumspect conservatives like Peggy Noonan, Tucker Carlson et. al. had better reassert themselves lest the likes of Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity & Bill O'Reilly lead the GOP over a cliff where its bones will join those of the Whigs & the "Know-nothings"

Richard Saunders of PA 6:19PM November 06, 2008

I remember well how the Republicans and the media mocked Judis and Teixeira. More fools them, because while they were laughing at the book, Barack Obama and David Axelrod were reading it.

Peter Principle of MD 12:02AM November 06, 2008

John A. Farrell

John A. Farrell

John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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