A Politico contributor, Daniel McGraw, takes a look at some somewhat sepulchral demographics:
There’s been much written about how millennials are becoming a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but there’s been much less attention paid to one of the biggest get-out-the-vote challenges for the Republican Party heading into the next presidential election: Hundreds of thousands of their traditional core supporters won’t be able to turn out to vote at all. The party’s core is dying off by the day.
The only question — and its a feeble one — is, Can the GOP somehow replace enough of its dead voters with healthier but ideologically arrested ones? Alas, that's not only a feeble question, it's one of the trickster sort. It's already answered in McGraw's opening.
Youthful voters are alienated daily by GOPers, of both the congressional and wannabe presidential species, who must cater to those on one of their last few breaths, since they are the ones who vote in GOP primaries. The party's once-popular, age-divided wedge issues have caught up to it, and they're now killing it.
What's more, merely staying even in the voter count would be of no benefit to the GOP in its White House pursuit. The Electoral map is aggressively blue; it would take one helluva splash of red to turn it otherwise.
And some readers have wondered why I so casually dismiss a competitive race in 2016?
Republicans' only hope is or was or might be twofold: That Hillary conduct a repeat of the world's second-most stinky campaign (Mitt Romney retains the title), and the nomination of anybody but Rubio, Walker, Huckabee et alia, meaning Jeb Bush. Hillary's sagacious silence is reducing the odds of the first, however, and Jeb is self-destructing by the hour. In fact, his most lethal self-destruction began on January 20, 2001.
Jeb Bush is nonetheless the best they've got. Is anyone still puzzled by my dismissiveness?