in the past six elections, the republican party has won a majority of the votes in the presidency just one time, 2004. six elections, five of six, less than half the vote. in the previous six presidential elections going back to 1968, republicans won five times out of six, even if you include their defeats, they averaged 52.5% of the vote. one six-cycle period, 52.5%, and the other never a majority. this is not about mitt romney. it s not about chris christie it s not about the storm. it s about a deep obsolescence of what the party was doing. the core problem is this. like all successful institutions, general motors after the 1960s, the u.s. army after world war ii, the republican party has been slow to change to a new reality because what it used to do used to work so well, and it s so difficult to admit it doesn t work anymore and hasn t been working for a long time. is it just because there aren t the percentage of white people in the population is diminishing? no, it is not
this fact. in the past six elections, the republican party has won a majority of the votes in the presidency just one time, 2004. six elections, five of six, less than half the vote. in the previous six presidential elections going back to 1968, republicans won five times out of six, even if you include their defeats, they averaged 52.5% of the vote. one six-cycle period, 52.5%, and the other never a majority. this is not about mitt romney. it s not about chris christie it s not about the storm. it s about a deep obsolescence of what the party was doing. the core problem is this. like all successful institutions, general motors after the 1960s, the u.s. army after world war ii, the republican party has been slow to change to a new reality because what it used to do used to work so well, and it s so difficult to admit it doesn t work anymore and hasn t been working for a long time. is it just because there aren t the percentage of white people in the population is diminishing? no,
six elections, five of six, less than half the vote. in the previous six presidential elections going back to 1968 republicans won five times out of six, even if you include their defeats, they averaged 52.5% of the vote. one six cycle period, 52.5% and the other never a majority. this is not about mitt romney. it s not about chris christie it s not about the storm, it s about a deep ob sa lessance of what the party was doing. the core problem is this. like all successful institutions, general motors after the 1960s, the u.s. army after world war ii, the republican party has been slow to change to a new reality because what it used to do used to work so well and it s so difficult to admit it doesn t work anymore and hasn t been working for a long time. is it just because there aren t the percentage of white people in the population is diminishing? no, it is not about that. it s not about the latino vote
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major flood stage right now in memphis. it s topping. it s just about where it s as high as it s going to get. two or three inches one way or the other, but it s not going to come down for four days. vicksburg this is only from memphis to vicksburg. how long can that take you? it s going to take nine more days for that water in vicksburg to finally get to its top level. and look at it now. i know we show you this graphic, and you don t understand it. but here s record stage at 56 feet. and so we re now down here at major flood stage in this purple zone here at 52.5 feet going all the way up to major and then record and probably still going. so vicksburg, although very high on bluffs on both sides, you will be at record stage there. and this is going to be the case all the way up and down the river. we talk about this water going all the way down even into baton rouge and eventually new orleans. and they have opened the spillways and all that kind of stuff, especially, but we re sti