WSJ: Affluent Voters Switch Brands

[Bradley in DC]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119518268221495363.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox

Affluent Voters Switch Brands
Stands on 'So-Called Moral Issues'
Prove Costly for Republicans
By JOHN HARWOOD
November 16, 2007; Page A6

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Over time, both those concerns have generated a backlash in Colorado among affluent, secular voters with different priorities. "Twenty-five years ago...business could safely vote Republican and believe that their interests in business were going to be taken care of," says Neil Westergaard, editor of the Denver Business Journal. "As the Republican Party has changed, I think that became less [true]."

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Scott Reed, who managed Republican Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign, sees three overlapping problems for Republicans among business leaders and high-income voters. One is desire to go with the winning side at a time when Democrats have captured Congress; a second is loss of confidence in the Bush administration's competence; and a third is "a sense that the leadership of the Republican Party is too beholden to a small group of self-appointed social conservative leaders."

In 2008, Mr. Reed adds, "Republicans have to go back to the basics and use the new presidential nominee to rebrand the entire party."

 

[torchbearer]

I like that train of thought.

 

[ConstitutionGal]

"Republicans have to go back to the basics and use the new presidential nominee to rebrand the entire party."

The ONLY way they're going to accomplish this is by nominating the only one who's different and capable of such a feat - Dr. Paul

 

[Corydoras]

This is the fruit of the universities being leftist for a couple of generations now. The elites are being indoctrinated young. And then they make so much money that they don't care about higher taxes. And the Democrats have become corporatists.