>if the GOP had a say (and they were as dirty as the DNC were
>revealed to be in the primaries), the nominee would have been
>Rubio. a lot of people thought he'd come out the winner if not
>for the Trump phenomenon.
>
>Ohio was the only state that went for Kasich, and he just
>happens to be their governor.
>
>Now that he's come out as not voting for Hillary, but writing
>in McCain, people who probably voted for him twice are calling
>him a "RINO" for not going for Trump.
>
>it isn't just the poor and poorer "working class" GOP voters,
>either. it's the cul-de-sac white voters who are in the upper
>end of the working class, income wise. basically people w/jobs
>as well as people w/o jobs (or w/inconsistent employers). they
>ain't fuckin' with no one who ain't speaking "their" language,
>and this year it was Trump.
>
>the GOP knows that anti-Black racism is central to building a
>coalition of people to support their platform of Poo Poo.
>they're losing national polls/votes with the white
>"deplorables", and they know they need to diversify.
>
>who better than Rubio? he could have been their "Obama". go
>out there like Bush and promise "compassionate conservatism"
>and look reasonable (like Kasich) and show that the face of
>the GOP doesn't necessarily need to be white.
>
>that alone would make up for loss in the "deplorable" vote (by
>their measure) and their general ignoring of the black vote,
>by bringing more non-black POC voters who may not be all about
>the Democrats.
>
>Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele, Ben "NyQuil" Carson, these were
>all major attempts to diversify their base. Steele is all but
>out the door. Carson drowning in his own NyQuil. Bobby
>sniffin' butane.
>
>If not Rubio, someone like Nikki Haley who can simply "not be
>white" but "white-friendly" would be their best bet. After
>Trump, I have no idea how they pull that off without closing
>all the primaries.

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