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Friday, November 9, 2012

A Hispanic wake-up call for the GOP


Constitutional Federalist Marco Rubio.

Romney ignored Marco Rubio and lost Florida
  • Mitt Romney lost the election the day he selected Big Government, Big Spender Paul Ryan instead of Constitutional Federalist Marco Rubio.
  • 95% of Blacks vote Democrat.
  • But 29% of Latinos voted GOP.  There is serious opportunity for Conservatism in the Latino community.


By Gary;

Gary Rule #1  -  People are fucking idiots.  Republicans are not exempt.

As smart as Mitt Romney is he missed two keys to the 2012 election  -  the Electoral College and the Hispanic vote.

The Electoral College  -  The Electoral College elects our Presidents.  The GOP nominated two candidates who brought absolutely nothing, zero, nada to the Electoral Collage table.

Governor Romney did not even try to carry his home state of Massachusetts.  To make matters worse, Romney selected a lowly Congressman from Wisconsin for VP.  Wisconsin, a state so Democratic that 1984 was the last time it voted GOP.

In nominating Romney-Ryan the Republican National Convention gave the election away.


Hispanic Republican Governors
Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico and Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada.
Both would have been excellent choices for Vice President.  They were ignored
by Romney and both states voted Democrat. 

Hispanic Republicans - Mitt Romney and much of the stupid Beltway Republican Leadership failed to see that 2012 could have been the year the GOP broke into the Hispanic community in a major way.

Latino Republicans are getting elected to the offices of Governor, US Senate and Congress. This would have been the perfect opportunity to play ethnic politics and build a coalition of Conservative minded peoples to run the Federal government. The fact that millions of Hispanics are in swing states is an added bonus.

But it was not to be.

Romney and the GOP leadership were just too blind to the reality of changing demographics as well as the Electoral College.

I heard today that Marco Rubio plans to visit Iowa soon.  Iowa already?  As sick as starting the 2016 race sounds, sign me up for Rubio.


Hispanic Republicans in Texas



 
Some 847,550 Puerto Ricans live in Florida alone.
4,623,000 live in the 50 United States.

Paul Rodriguez:  How I Became a Republican




Nationally, President Obama drew 71 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to exit polls, a number that was likely at play in Obama wins over Republican Mitt Romney in a few key swing states, including Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.

The number appears to have been smaller in Florida – possibly around 60 percent for the president among Hispanics according to one poll of early and likely Latino voters last week.

Hispanics were "absolutely game changers" for the Democratic effort, state party Chairman Rod Smith said. "The changing demographic of Florida was never more evident than last week and last night."

Smith said after Democrats lost several races, including a close governor's race in 2010, they hired a full time Democrat Hispanic outreach coordinator in central Florida, where large numbers of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos were being credited with helping Democrats win several races in the area this year.

The Obama team also helped, Smith said.

"They saw very early that was going to be a critical vote in Florida," he said.

Anyone looking at registration numbers in the state likely saw Tuesday's results among Hispanics coming, said Mark Hugo Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center. Increasing numbers of Hispanics throughout the last year have been registering mostly as Democrats and independents in Florida, following decades in which much of the state's Latino population had been Cuban and Republican.

State figures show 644,876 Hispanics registered as Democrats in time for Tuesday's election, while only 476,488 Hispanics signed up as Republicans. More than a half million Hispanics – more than Republicans – registered with no party affiliation.




Hispanics in Selected States

9% - Georgia  /  23% - Florida  /  8% - Virginia

8% - North Carolina   /   30% - Arizona   /   27% - Nevada

38% - Texas   /   21% - Colorado   /   11% - Washington state

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