@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:Gotta face facts, oralloy. Your base is declining, big time.
I'm not sure I have a base. But if I do, no it isn't.
MontereyJack wrote:If you think gun control would mean mass repudiation of Obama and Democrats, you're living a pipe dream, a .223 inch diameter pipe dream.
No, any attempt at passing an assault weapons ban would result in a devastating blow to the Democrats, from which it would take them a
long time to recover. And then the US Supreme Court would simply strike it down if it passed.
And they know it. Aside from the magazine ban, watch how fast the Democrats retreat on the issue of assault weapons.
MontereyJack wrote:The number of American households ywith guns has declined by a third in the last 40 years.
Quote:The number of households owning guns has declined from almost 50% in 1973 to just over 32% in 2010, according to a 2011 study produced by The University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.
That's OK. The households who do own guns own a lot of them.
MontereyJack wrote:(and we know there are fewer Republicans and they're aging fast).
That's a fallacy. As young Democrats grow older, they morph into new Republicans.
MontereyJack wrote:Remember what happened to Republicans in the 2012 elections.
Sometimes one party wins. Sometimes the other party wins.
MontereyJack wrote:You're up a creek without a paddle, and someone peppered your canoe with buckshot and it's leaking like a sieve.
Setting aside for a moment the well-known fact that I'm a conservative Democrat, the Republicans are doing just fine.
They will need to reach out to Hispanics a bit more. But they are easily capable of doing that.