You know what? This is it. I really think this election is the tipping point for the Republicans. As Lindsey Graham said, they're not producing enough angry white guys to keep running on the same platforms. This election, the country returned Obama despite the most dismal economy since FDR. It shot down the Tea Party Senate candidates. (Not Cruz, ok.) The Dems, if anything, are going to increase their Senate holdings in an election where they were supposed to cede control. Same sex marriage, fingers crossed, is going to be directly voted into a state's laws for the first time. Marijuana measures are passing. Obama is winning every segment of the country except white males, and white males can't stop him winning.
The Southern Strategy is dead, and the electorate just gave the GOP its epitaph. They can pull a DLC and chase the centre, or they can chase irrelevance. Their choice.