re: #11 Lidane
The GOP is currently dying a slow demographic death. With every election they’re becoming more and more of an insular, regional, white party.
Ted Cruz and the other teabaggers are just helping to speed that process along.
That is why they are trying to pick their own voters. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, disenfranchising minorities through the voter roles and an especially sneaky one…proportional electoral votes in blue states but winner take all in red states (which you see attempts at in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania)