A Shrinking GOP Offers No Partner on Health Care (Harold Meyerson) from the Washington Post

“Today's Palinoidal Republicans have lost most of the professionals, much of Wall Street and an increasing chunk of suburbia. What they can claim is the allegiance of the white South and the almost entirely white, non-urban parts of the Mountain West. .... The rest of the nation -- that is, of course, most of the nation -- has become an ever-smaller share of Republican ranks.”