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Washington Examiner - The GOP-leaning white vote has declined from 87 percent to just 65 percent of the vote over the past several decades, threatening the Republican Party, according to a top Pew Research Center analyst.
Carroll Doherty, the director of political research for Pew, ... noted that Mitt Romney lost despite winning the same percentage of whites as former President George H.W. Bush, the result of more minorities going to the polls. "Romney was defeated, in part due to the changing demographic composition of the nation," said Doherty.
"We've gone from a country that's 87 percent white, non-Hispanic to a country that's 65 percent white, non-Hispanic," he said. "By 2060, we could very well be a majority-minority nation. This has had an impact on the electorate," he said,
Doherty said the threat is real to the GOP. "At this time of great demographic change, Republicans remain overwhelmingly white, while Democrats are becoming more diverse," he said.
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