In our class exercise my group built a new party based on the demise of the our current Republican party. We(Tony, Nick, Shannon, Mike, myself) called ourselves the "Neo-Whigs," with an economically conservative yet socially moderate platform. We are pro-choice, strong on defense and support a flat-tax system. We support lenient gun laws and are neutral on religion issues. Our younger more moderate generations are our target voters with high hopes to maintain the older conservative republicans. Our campaigning will take place mostly in the Midwest, with exceptions to sway votes in CA and NY.
Our idea is good for the more moderate conservatives who steer clear from extremists. However, because our party does not focus on extreme morality, we may lose a lot of voters and support from those with strong religious participation. Because it seems that the demise of the Republicans is due to the split of the party, the Neo-Whigs may lose interest of those who are very much to the right.
The Neo-Whigs would no doubt pull voters from the Democratic party, and eliminate a middle independent candidate option. I think that this would end up with an independent rising as a strong conservative and then the party system would be back where it started conservative-moderate-liberal. For this reason, I don't believe that the Neo-Whig party is a strong direction to move in, because essentially it's just moving in a circle by pushing the independent to the back of the line.
In conclusion, the Neo-Whigs have strong ideas to receive votes, however I don't believe current parties could move in this direction because there is nowhere to go.
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