On the face of it, these trends favour the Democratic Party, given the tendency for minorities to vote Democrat.
"The Republican Party faces a dim future, as the groups supporting it shrink in size while those opposing it grow in number," said Harvard University political scientist Thomas Patterson in a commentary in The Boston Globe.
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