Death Spiral: Obama's Win a Defeat For HATE, Tea-Baggers & Corrupt Plutocrats

Jonathan Martin: President Barack Obama’s thrashing of Mitt Romney exposed glaring structural weaknesses in the GOP that will shut the Republicans out of the White House until they find a way to appeal to a rapidly changing America. Republicans face a crisis: The country is growing less white, and their coalition has become more white in recent years. For the second consecutive presidential election, the Republican got thumped among women and young voters in the states that decided the election. The desperate straits Republicans find themselves in are structural. But Romney should not be completely absolved of responsibility for his party’s ebb. He galloped to the right on immigration and reproductive issues in the GOP primary and only awkwardly attempted to move to the middle on those issues in the fall. His 50s-era persona was almost comically far removed from Americans who are in their 20s and 30s. And he never attempted to distance himself from or truly challenge a Republican Party that still bears bruises left from the Bush years..