What I find interesting is where Democrats do well vs. where Republicans do well. In general Democrats dominate the West coast and the North East, while Republicans dominate the South East and much of the central states. Then if we look at where most of the wealth of this country is generated it is where Democrats dominate. If Republicans were the party of wealth why do they not dominate where the bulk of the wealth is created? The modern Republican party seems to attract mostly uneducated rural religious conservatives as opposed to the old Republican party that attracted mostly well educated urban financial conservatives. What happened? Can the Republican party keep this trend and keep any power?
When you get right down to it it isn’t Democrats or Republicans that have any power in this country, it is wealth that runs the show. When the wealthy aligned themselves with Republicans like during the Reagan era Republicans squashed the Democrats. But now it seems that the wealthy are aligning with the Democrats more and we see the shift in political power. When billionaires like Warren Buffet are endorsing Obama that tells you something. If all the Republicans have to draw upon are the angry uneducated social conservatives while alienating the rational educated fiscal conservatives they are doomed politically.
