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Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

What do these statistics mean politically? Almost surely the end of the Republican Party as a national governing institution.

Already, California, Illinois and New York are lost. The GOP has not carried any of the three in five presidential elections. When Texas -- where whites are a minority and a declining share of the population -- tips, how does the GOP put together an electoral majority?

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/05/1...l-for-the-gop/