Can GOP keep up with shifting demographics among supporters?
Will Republicans be able to attract new voters in time for the 2016 election? The answer could go a long ways to predicting the future of the party.
It is also the question being asked by Politico's Daniel McGraw, who pointed out in his story that the GOP is not attracting first-time voters. In fact, the trends are going the other way - with the party's longtime bastions of support are dying off faster than those belonging to the Democrats.
Mr. McGraw did some math using exit poll numbers from the 2012 election and estimated that roughly 2.75 million people who voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney and some 2.3 million of Barack Obama's supporters will have died by the next election. That amounts to over 400,000 more voters who voted Republican compared to Democrats who won't be at the polls in 2016. ..
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