We cats are getting ready for a busy Saturday and Sunday — the last ground-game weekend of the Presidential election. And goodness gracious, we'll be so glad when this thing is over and we can go back to taking 20 naps a day.
But when we look back at this election, no matter what its result (and, while still taking nothing for granted, we think we know what that will be), at this point it doesn't look like 2012 will be a wave election.
You know from wave elections. There was 2006 (good). There was 2008 (very good). And then there was 2010 (very bad). This year, no wave. But it's something else: generational.
That's because we cats are convinced that 2012 will be the last primal scream of the angry white guys who are today's Republican Party. Sure, they'll still be around in 2016, but in ever-shrinking numbers. This year, they're facing off against an America populated by people who don't look, act, or think like them. And it's those Americans who hold the future in their hands — because with each day that passes, there are fewer and fewer old white men left to power the GOP.
That's something that all the ad dollars, voter-suppression efforts and Obama-hating billionaires can't stop, no matter how hard the Republicans try. It's a simple, inevitable — and, for the GOP, an inconvenient — truth: Soon, the U.S. won't look anything like the people who filled the floor at their convention this year.
In fact, it doesn't already. We cats PURR.
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