Permanent Majority?
Karl Rove was to be the architect of the GOP permanent majority, but the legacy of the Bush administration is a Democratic majority. Note that I’m not keen on permanent majorities of any party. I think a good debate of a variety of points of view is a good idea. It’d be nice if the GOP would participate in that instead of lying and making up nonsense. Birthers, rabble-rousers, health care lies and other nonsense doesn’t further any useful or rational debate.
However, this strategy isn’t helping the GOP. The follow graphics struck me in their similarity that shows the effect of political mismanagement. Gallup released a poll of political party affiliation by state with the graphic below.
The above political map has some interesting correlation with the following unemployment map from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Funny how that works: Mismanage the country and screw up the economy and we’ll all eventually pay attention and vote you out.
