Talk:Seddie/@comment-24774793-20150723204209/@comment-14284535-20150724185204

Unless we nominate someone like Ted Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, or Carly Fiorina (the only non-white-males running on our side), we don't have a prayer of getting much of the minority vote.

As EpicFork pointed out, our base skews very white and very old (and largely male). But because it is older, we therefore vote in very high percentages. This means that you need to consider our votes much firmer than others'. That works in our favour for the short to short-medium term (and people tend to become more Conservative as they get older), but yes, that is a problem with younger, non-white, and female voters and will screw us until our top-end decides to live in the real 21st century instead of trying to turn the clock back to some mythical idealised time.

Donald Trump would be a joke if he weren't so inexplicably popular. I hate that he's in my party.