The Center for Immigration Studies recommends that the Republican Party focuses on winning more of the white vote
Know how, in light of their numerous defeats last November, the Republican Party has been trying to expand their voting base? Well, according to the "conservative, nonpartisan think tank" Center for Immigration Studies, there's really no need for the GOP to do that.
Based on reviewing newly released Census data, this "conservative, nonpartisan think tank" had this to say:
"As Republicans think about how they can expand their voting base, the new data suggest that one of their biggest problems in the last presidential election was that so many less-educated whites sat home. These voters, who have been hit hard by the recession, have traditionally supported Republicans. It seems likely that by supporting the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, GOP legislators would further alienate these voters."
The report went on to suggest that if Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had won 3% more of the white vote, he would have won the popular vote, but that number would have had to increase to 23 percentage points among Latino voters if he were to win the popular vote.
What this report fails to see is that the percentage of white voters in this country is shrinking while the percentage of Latino voters is growing. By the year 2030, Latinos are expected to jump from 15% of registered voters to 25%, so says the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Also, even if Romney had won the popular vote in this past election, he still may have not been crowned president, for agree with it or not, the winner is decided via the electoral college. Romney could have won Florida (29), Virginia (13), and either Pennsylvania (20) or Ohio (18), and still come up short with either 266 or 268 electoral votes.
If the Republican Party had placed more emphasis on trimming the gap with Latino voters, they could have won Florida, Colorado, perhaps Nevada, and made New Mexico a bit more interesting. They could prevent the states of Texas and Arizona from turning purple in the coming election cycles, prevent Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado from shifting to lean-blue states (solid-blue in New Mexico's case), and give themselves a better shot every four years of winning the highly coveted state of Florida. However, this would also require they reach out to more voters, tone down the hyperbolic rhetoric, become more moderate, and learn how to compromise. Unfortunately for them, that appears less likely than James Dobson and Pat Robertson starring a sequel to Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/republicans-white-vote_n_3361687.html
Based on reviewing newly released Census data, this "conservative, nonpartisan think tank" had this to say:
"As Republicans think about how they can expand their voting base, the new data suggest that one of their biggest problems in the last presidential election was that so many less-educated whites sat home. These voters, who have been hit hard by the recession, have traditionally supported Republicans. It seems likely that by supporting the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, GOP legislators would further alienate these voters."
The report went on to suggest that if Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had won 3% more of the white vote, he would have won the popular vote, but that number would have had to increase to 23 percentage points among Latino voters if he were to win the popular vote.
What this report fails to see is that the percentage of white voters in this country is shrinking while the percentage of Latino voters is growing. By the year 2030, Latinos are expected to jump from 15% of registered voters to 25%, so says the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Also, even if Romney had won the popular vote in this past election, he still may have not been crowned president, for agree with it or not, the winner is decided via the electoral college. Romney could have won Florida (29), Virginia (13), and either Pennsylvania (20) or Ohio (18), and still come up short with either 266 or 268 electoral votes.
If the Republican Party had placed more emphasis on trimming the gap with Latino voters, they could have won Florida, Colorado, perhaps Nevada, and made New Mexico a bit more interesting. They could prevent the states of Texas and Arizona from turning purple in the coming election cycles, prevent Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado from shifting to lean-blue states (solid-blue in New Mexico's case), and give themselves a better shot every four years of winning the highly coveted state of Florida. However, this would also require they reach out to more voters, tone down the hyperbolic rhetoric, become more moderate, and learn how to compromise. Unfortunately for them, that appears less likely than James Dobson and Pat Robertson starring a sequel to Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/republicans-white-vote_n_3361687.html
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