To Win the White House, Republicans May Need to Double Support Among Minority Voters
A demographic math lesson from a top Republican presidential strategist.
People wait in line to vote at the Caroline High School polling station, on November 6, 2012 in Milford, Virginia.
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Here's some daunting presidential arithmetic from Whit Ayres, one of the Republican Party's top strategists in Washington:
“Republicans have a major challenge in presidential elections,” Ayres said Tuesday in Washington during a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. “There's something fundamentally different about presidential electorates that my party needs to resolve in order to elect a president in 2016.”