Pitts: GOP has new enemy to defeat – itself
“How ya like me now?” – Barack Obama
OK, so Obama didn’t really say that, but surely, he must have thought it behind a private smile at some point Election Day.
There are no smiles among the Republicans, however, only a pressing question: Can the GOP fix itself? Can a party whose appeal is wholly white and mainly male learn to appeal to a rainbow electorate that is neither? Especially after it has spent so many years denigrating that rainbow, drawing lines in sand, placing chips on its shoulder.
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