On top of all this, it’s being beaten in the demographics battle with the majority of minority groups siding with Democrats and President Barack Obama, especially in the 2012 election. He collected 55 percent of the women’s vote, 60 percent of voters under 30, 71 percent of the Hispanic vote and more than 90 percent of African Americans.

And what it seems to come down to is the GOP is finding itself on the wrong side of social issues, such as immigration and LGBT rights.

The GOP is known for its staunch views social issues, whether it’s limiting abortion rights in the states or trying to limit gay marriage growth. And this is where the GOP needs to make a change.

What this is asking is a full 180-degree turn on what the party believes in. And it’s something not even the GOP can pull off right now. To make a complete social stance change at this point in time would be political suicide. What Republicans want to avoid is trying to look desperate in its attempts to appeal to more voters, while also appealing to its current base right now.

This is to say Republicans would want to make this change, and with the people it has in office right now, it’s something that isn’t likely to happen, as the strong hold the Tea Party-base has on the GOP wouldn’t let this happen.

So how can the GOP broaden its stance on social issues to attract more diverse voters while also keeping the strong base it already has?

Republicans keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons right now when it comes to social issues. During a Republican debate during the 2012 election season, a question was posed by a gay soldier whether any of the Republican candidates circumvent the progress made for LGBT individuals in the military. Some audience members booed, and none of the candidates defended the soldier, at the time. It’s stories like this as to why people are not identifying themselves as Republican. This incident recently was portrayed on an episode of HBO’s “The Newsroom,” and it’s no more acceptable now than it was then.

What it needs to do right now is to focus less on social issues and put more attention on its bread and butter: fiscal issues, which is where its strong base lies.

As it works on strengthening its position there, it slowly can broaden its views on these social views, whether it’s launching a bipartisan bill on immigration or more Republicans senators or representatives announcing they support gay marriage.

If the GOP wants to win the next presidential election, it needs to start appealing to more people, slowly but surely. The next generation of voters are not going to sit kindly to what Republicans believe in now, but with a little bit of progress, it might see a the tides turn in its favor for once.