WASHINGTON -- Since widespread Democratic wins on Election Day, Republicans have been searching for ways to reach out to new voters -- beyond their traditional constituency of older white men.
The question is what lasting impact his inflammatory rhetoric will have on the Republican Party as it struggles to broaden its appeal beyond its core constituency of older white voters.
Even though his constituency of older, white conservatives is not the future of America, neither is demographic change coming fast enough to take anything for granted in terms of elections.
To represent this district, he would have to reach out to a wider constituency of African-Americans, whites and Asians.
Politically, the lack of access to a four-year college education is a crucial problem for one of the key battleground constituencies of 2012: whites without college degrees.
Shahid Malik, Labour's candidate, said the Tory leaflet containing the remarks about homosexuals had gone out only in Muslim parts of the constituency, while white areas got a section about immigration.
Rather, exit polls suggest that a majority of white female voters – the constituency assumed to most closely identify with Clinton – opted instead for Donald Trump.
Trump acknowledged that the challenge for him will be to sound somewhat less like Hitler to please congressional Republicans while still sounding enough like Hitler to avoid alienating his key constituencies of Nazis and white supremacists.
One cost has been the philosophical and fiscal alienation of Stonewall's traditional core constituency, gay white men.
Hodge held the mainly white, working-class constituency of Barking in east London, taking 24,628 votes - more than 16,000 more than any other candidate.
