and it's just going to get harder and harder for them to scare enough white, anglo voters every four years to win Presidential elections. The white, non-hispanic vote was 90% of the electorate in 1976, 84% in 1984 and 73% on Tuesday. Meanwhile the heavily Democratic black, hispanic, asian vote is increasing by leaps and bounds each election cycle. Hispanics alone are increasing 30% every four years. On Tuesday the GOP was swamped by what was just the first wave of a coming tsunami of American multi-cultural diversity.

Meanwhile the Republicans' silly idea of outreach beyond their shrinking block of white male conservatives was to profoundly insult the intelligence of millions of American women by choosing an ignorant hick from Wasilly, Alaska and attempt to place her a heartbeat away from the Presidency. No wonder female voters emphatically turned down the opportunity to see the first woman in an executive position and responded instead by supporting Obama by a huge margin (about 14 points).

Conservatives may be appaled by the idea of the Republican Party's evolution into a European-style, center-right, Democrat-lite entity, but in all honesty that may be the only means of survival in the coming years...