There's a new report out, commissioned by the College National Republican Committee that focuses on the GOP's image among younger voters. It ain't pretty:
Note -- this is the "winnable" Obama voters. One wonders how many of them there are.
It gets worse -- much worse. I've embedded the whole report below.
As I noted when the post-election post-mortem was going on among Republicans, in regard to their brilliant observation that they needed to polish up the rhetoric, they just don't get it: it's not the rhetoric, although that's bad enough. The problem was that their message, the substance of their policies, such as they are, came through loud and clear. That's what turned people off.
“In the focus group research conducted in January 2013,” the report said, “the young ‘winnable’ Obama voters were asked to say what words came to mind when they heard ‘Republican Party.’ The responses were brutal: closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned.”
Note -- this is the "winnable" Obama voters. One wonders how many of them there are.
It gets worse -- much worse. I've embedded the whole report below.
As I noted when the post-election post-mortem was going on among Republicans, in regard to their brilliant observation that they needed to polish up the rhetoric, they just don't get it: it's not the rhetoric, although that's bad enough. The problem was that their message, the substance of their policies, such as they are, came through loud and clear. That's what turned people off.
Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation
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