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Originally Posted by LastLife
Flip flop on immigration and the GOP is back in the lead.
How stupid do you think Latinos are? The GOP has just spent a decade or more demonizing Latinos as lazy, welfare-sucking leeches. A right leaning news anchor just shouted down a guy from Puerto Rico who had come onto his show to talk about the Puerto Rican vote for statehood, bitterly yelling that the only reason they voted for statehood was for the earned income tax credit. Arizona has gone hard to the paint for their right to be able to stop any Latino they please and check to make sure they are not illegal immigrants, and other GOP-controlled states have copied, or even surpassed Arizona. Supporting a few token measures on immigration that Democrats have been supporting all along is not going to convince anyone.
The GOP has made it very clear who they think Real Americans are: White, Anglo-Saxon, Evangelical. Trotting up Marco Rubio in an audience of old white people changes nothing. Asians are more affluent on average than white people. So are Jews. The GOP doesn't have anything specifically mean to say about them. Yet, Asians and Jews are strong Democratic constituencies.