That’s the mean-spirited ha ha ha, mind you, not the jolly one. Taking note of the overwhelming advantage Democrats seem to have in urban voter registration, Matthew Yglesias observes:

Now, clearly, there were more than 90 unregistered Republicans in Multnomah County which had 660,486 people in the 2000 census and experienced 12 percent population growth between 1990 and 2000. What happened here is that the Republicans didn't try to register new voters there. And you can hardly blame them. Walk around a major urban area and there's no obvious way to identify who the Republicans are. The African-Americans and Latinos you find are going to be overwhelmingly Democrats, but most of the white people are Democrats, too. As a result, Democrats can safely push to register minorities, and then if they run out, start looking for white folks, especially students, and single women. Republicans would need to put an awful lot of thought into how to identify their supporters before launching an urban registration drive. So they don't do it, instead they head for rural areas and the exurbs.

That would all be fine except for the fact that an awful lot of Republicans live in big cities simply because big cities contain so many people.

And I don’t care how mean-spirited it is; I have no sympathy for the GOP’s plight, none at all. They chose to become the party of spiteful white men, and this is what they get.