Two data points should be enough to guide the Republican party forward: In 1980, Ronald Reagan won a sweeping landslide of 44 states with 56 percent of the white vote. In 2012, Romney won 24 states with 59 percent of the white vote. And a higher percentage of whites voted in 2012 than 1980.
If that’s not enough, consider this:Every four years the American electorate is two percentage points less white, with four percentage points fewer white voters with a high school education or less. The entire candidacy of the Orange Menace is a classic example of losing five bucks on every sale and trying to make it up in volume.
