Here’s a representative passage from a genre of political writing popping up everywhere today: Republican Demographic Concern.
The answer to the electoral woes the GOP experienced on Election Day is demographics, pundits agreed, and Republicans need to expand the party to reach out to new and growing groups of voters.
Latinos, in particular, will likely be a specific group Republicans seek to attract, reporter David Gregory said during a panel discussion Wednesday.
"The party has got to find a way to reach out to Latinos, the fastest growing voting bloc, to become a more diverse party with the ability to shed some of the orthodoxy around taxes, around spending, over the role of government, and this process is going to begin this morning — the soul searching and redefinition," Gregory said.
There’s a secondary line of inquiry, though, that I haven’t seen answered very well: Don’t Republicans honestly believe their positions are correct and best? If so, what kind of “soul searching” is there to be done?