27 April 12
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are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing
fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing
off the most? Latinos, women, and young people.
It’s almost as if the GOP can’t help itself.
Start with Hispanic voters, whose electoral heft keeps
growing as they comprise an ever-larger portion of the electorate.
Hispanics now favor President Obama over Romney by more than two to one,
according to a recent Pew poll.
The movement of Hispanics into the Democratic camp has
been going on for decades. What are Republicans doing to woo them back?
Replicating California Republican Governor Pete Wilson’s disastrous
support almost twenty years ago for Proposition 187 – which would have
screened out undocumented immigrants from public schools, health care,
and other social services, and required law-enforcement officials to
report any “suspected” illegals. (Wilson, you may remember, lost that
year’s election, and California’s Republican Party has never recovered.)
The Arizona law now before the Supreme Court –
sponsored by Republicans in the state and copied by Republican
legislators and governors in several others – would authorize police to
stop anyone looking Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship. It’s
nativism disguised as law enforcement. READ MORE
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