Last March it was the old folks of the Republican Party
asking the burning question, and on Monday it
it will be the next generation's turn: Why can't the GOP attract young voters?
The College Republican National Committee on Monday will make public a detailed report — the result of extensive polling and focus groups — dissecting what went wrong for Republicans with young voters in the 2012 elections and how the party can improve its showing with that key demographic in the future.
Both generations seem to come to the same conclusion: It turns out that hating on women, Latinos, gays and everyone else not firmly entrenched in the one percent is bad politics. But these young Republicans haven't given up:
"[The] Republican Party has won the youth vote before and can absolutely win it again," the report says, pointing to presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush who were competitive with that demographic.
Well, sure. Thirty or so years ago the GOP did win the youth vote. But that was before the party made hating on women, Latinos, gays and everyone else not firmly entrenched in the one percent a full-time job.
The report will also note that:
Words that up-for-grabs voters associate with the GOP: "The responses were brutal: closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned."
You know, young Republicans may be asking themselves the wrong question ...