Republicans search for way back to White House

Republicans search for way back to White House

Late Wednesday afternoon, as the impact of Mitt Romney’s loss sunk in, a quote by Utah Republican strategist Chuck Warren began bouncing around Twitter.

“To be frank, we’re a ‘Mad Men’ party in a ‘Modern Family’ world,” Warren said, according to a Tweet from Matt Lewis, a conservative columnist.

That’s one take on the GOP’s consecutive failures to secure the White House: that the party’s base is too narrow, confined largely to older white voters with outdated attitudes on social issues.

An alternative theory holds that the party erred in the opposite direction, choosing Romney over more conservative candidates who would have engendered greater passion among the GOP’s grass roots.

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