• Posted Nov. 28, 2012 12:01 a.m.
  • GOP stands for Generational Outlook Pathetic
  • If the future of the Republican Party lies with today’s younger Americans, the outlook from the conservative perspective is not exactly encouraging.

    Jonathan Chait EXPLAINS:

    How doomed are conservatives? Pretty doomed, if you look carefully at the Pew Research Survey’s close analysis of the youth vote in the 2012 elections. The Republicans’ long-term dilemma has generally been framed in racial terms, but it’s mainly a generational one. The youngest generation of voters contains a much smaller proportion of white voters than previous generations, and those whites in that generation vote Republican by a much smaller margin than their elders. What’s

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