Sarah Palin Quotes
People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
Palin, Sarah. "Keynote Address." National Tea Party Convention, 6 Feb. 2010, Gaylord Opryland Resort, Nashville, TN.
Mexicans were very sensitive to the problem of a leader being elected and then controlling the police, media and election system, keep getting elected. Diaz ran on a slogan of a term limit of a single term. He was elected on that basis and served one term and stepped down. Then, breaking his campaign pledge, he ran again and served term after term for 30 years. The Mexican Revolution resulted. The Mexican Constitution was then written to have a term limit of one 6 year term.
The Congress was in a hyper-partisan gridelock and was unable to pass most legislation.
The main source of Republican votes was Anglo White males. However, the demographics of the nation had been changing for a few decades where the non-Whites are the fastest growing demographic subgroup. The projection was clearly that Anglo Whites would cease to be the majority in the coming years and each year they became slightly smaller. This caused many of the Republican politicians to redouble their efforts to appeal (sometimes pander) to non-Anglo White males in order to gain a majority. However, many of the positions that appealed to White Males—like immigration control and deportation of "illegals"—often offended many of the new growing demographic groups who voted in larger numbers against the Republicans. The money and manpower that was needed to try and produce a slim majority gave fewer and fewer resources to those Republicans who wanted to campaign heavily with the current minorities and to be majorities in order to get an even higher percentage to non-Anglo White Males. So each year Republicans were losing more and more ground with the very groups that were becoming a larger and larger voting bloc. Hence the "Death Spiral".
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. As the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
