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precedented turnout among these voters. Some analysts calculate that Trump would need at least 65 percent of the white vote to win; 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney got 59 percent. "He would have to pull a rabbit out of the hat to do this," Brookings Institution demographer William Frey said of Trump. "The demo

lly. But in a General Election where the candidate who builds the biggest tent tends to win, it is difficult to envision how Trump will over-perform Romney and [2008 nominee John] McCain. And what happens should the Democratic Party spend the next six months registering between two to three million new

ted O'Connell. And a number of Republicans, some who are no fans of Trump believe it may be possible. "I see Donald Trump as a wrecking ball," said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary for George W. Bush and one of the co-authors of the RNC's 2012 autopsy. "He's currently swinging through the

y-side Reaganite economics of the past three decades. This economic devastation is compounded by the fact that those at the top are so distance from Mitt Romney's famed 47% at the bottom and the fact that almost everyone in between them and the Top io% are living pay-check to pay-check having been squeezed by

t that those at the top are so distance from Mitt Romney's famed 47% at the bottom and the fact that almo

n of suggesting that terrorists weren't "cowards" (he was merely agreeing with conservative fire-eater Dinesh D'Souza). White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, speaking from the White House, warned Maher: "people have to watch what they say and watch what they do." Maher's show at the time, Politically In

could try arguing that taxes are too progressive, and that what's needed is a tax system that's nicer to rich people and meaner to poor people. But Mitt Romney didn't have much luck with that gambit in 2012. Inescapable conclusion: The GOP is not interested at all in tax reform, and it's only mildly interes

a cover story in The New York Times Magazine last week on Republicans and their problem with technology, one quote that caught everyone's eye was, "Romney's senior strategist Stuart Stevens, may well be remembered by historians as the last guy to run a presidential campaign who never tweeted," Stevens

nd he's now got that. But that's why we have periodic elections. Did he think when the people spoke in 2010 that that was the be-all and end-all?" Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary: "Inclusiveness. We don't have to agree on every issue. We need to say to people we disagree with on certain iss

party of 'no.' We've got to do something more.'" Steve Scheffler, Iowa national committeeman: "We need to stand by our principles and not deviate. Mitt Romney had a mushy message. He didn't say anything but 'We need to get rid of Obama.' We need to talk about restoring fiscal sanity to the budget, but we c

to stand by our principles and not deviate. Mitt Romney had a mushy message. He didn't say anything but '

and he's now got that. But that's why we have periodic elections. Did he think when the people spoke in 2010 that that was the be-all and end-all?" Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary: "Inclusiveness. We don't have to agree on every issue. We need to say to people we disagree with on certain iss