Hence The Need For The Plan

Doug at Balloon Juice looks at some depressing campaign numbers for the GOP:

Reading an annoyingly titled but interesting piece about the next election cycle, I came across this interesting tidbit, which I hadn’t seen before:

As The New York Times’ John Harwood recently noted, McCain won the same percentage of the white vote that Ronald Reagan did in 1980 — and lost.

Reagan and McCain each won 55% of the white vote.

Here’s something else interesting: Bush won 58% of the white vote in 2004. If McCain had won 58%, he still would have lost badly. If he’d won 65% of the white vote, the race would have been essentially a tie.

And yet the GOP is doing everything it can to alienate non-white voters, particularly blacks and especially Hispanics. It's still the same GOP from 1980. The country just changed.

A majority of the white vote no longer guarantees a win, that's been true for some time now, but even a two-thirds majority of the white vote is no guarantee anymore for Republican presidential candidates.

Any wonder then why the GOP is still fixated on limiting the vote of minorities through state-level voter ID laws?