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Some Republicans Fear That Their Hard-Liners Will Alienate Hispanics
The New York Times ^ | November 20, 2014 | Jackie Calmes

Posted on 11/20/2014 8:27:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

All but drowned out by Republicans’ clamorous opposition to President Obama’s executive action on immigration are some leaders who worry that their party could alienate the fastest-growing group of voters, for 2016 and beyond, if its hottest heads become its face.

They cite the Republican Party’s official analysis of what went wrong in 2012, the presidential-election year in which nominee Mitt Romney urged Latinos here illegally to “self-deport.”

“If Hispanics think that we do not want them here,” the report said, “they will close their ears to our policies.”

“Both the president and the Republican Party confront risks here,” said Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster. While the danger for Mr. Obama is “being perceived as overstepping his boundaries,” Mr. McInturff said, “the Republicans’ risk is opposing his action without an appropriate tenor, and thereby alienating the Latino community.”

How the two parties manage their respective risks as they battle for public opinion is likely to define the final two years of Mr. Obama’s presidency as well as the emerging race to pick his successor....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: amnesty; hispanics; immigration; obama; taxamnesty
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need to use the same tactic on Federal taxes.

Run on the promise of amnesty for not paying taxes.

Let the DNC go after the money owed when they get back in the WH!

The precedent has been set with 100% full approval of the MSM.


21 posted on 11/20/2014 8:58:53 PM PST by NoLibZone (i voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
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To: SaraJohnson

Bump.


22 posted on 11/20/2014 8:59:27 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Republicans will never get the majority of the Hispanic vote unless they can convincingly promise more freebies than the Democrats.


23 posted on 11/20/2014 8:59:44 PM PST by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How in the world do you alienate illegal aliens.
24 posted on 11/20/2014 8:59:52 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bunch of bleeping pussies.


25 posted on 11/20/2014 9:00:26 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

simply tell the truth and theres nothing to fear.


26 posted on 11/20/2014 9:00:27 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

They don’t need the majority of the Hispanic vote, just get all of the conservative ones. They’re out there.


27 posted on 11/20/2014 9:01:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The old gray whore is up on her soapbox again but, again, it sounds like she forgot to put her teeth in.


28 posted on 11/20/2014 9:02:29 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Rome2000

They’re probably begging for it. The people of Mexico.

If we’re going to be forced into the AMERO currency, let’s get down there and burn up THEIR constitution so we can move there and exploit that landmass and its resources.


29 posted on 11/20/2014 9:02:51 PM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Party before country. Everyone dies. I hope they die a miserable long painful degrading death.


30 posted on 11/20/2014 9:07:55 PM PST by Ray76 (When Obama speaks he speaks as the leader of a foreign invasion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If the (R) folks would talk about the Constitution, the law, and stick to that they will persevere. This bowing down to the emo PC crap will kill them.

Grow a spine Wino's!

31 posted on 11/20/2014 9:09:31 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Pelham
learning to despise the GOP.

Anyone just learning to despise the Repugnants is sure a slow learner. I've despised them since Jorge Busho. He's the liberal pig who started all this.

32 posted on 11/20/2014 9:31:01 PM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: Westbrook

The Republican establishment works for the same side Obama and the Democrats do. They’re afraid the conservatives will awaken America like Reagan did.


33 posted on 11/20/2014 9:44:07 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The RINOs don’t have to worry about me. I’m going to be nice and start referring to them as Barry’s documented illegal aliens. Obamnesty changes nothing. The Emperor doesn’t respect our laws, I don’t respect his phone and pen.


34 posted on 11/20/2014 9:44:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution?)
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To: dfwgator

You’re right that they are out there but they probably have been in the USA for at least two generations as my family has and we vote conservatively. But most of the newer arrivals who I count as twenty years or less are very dependent on big brother government. Their numbers are growing very fast. John McCain and Jeb Bush etc. either are ignorant or playing us for fools when it comes to immigration.


35 posted on 11/20/2014 9:50:40 PM PST by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: LouAvul

“Anyone just learning to despise the Repugnants is sure a slow learner. I’ve despised them since Jorge Busho. He’s the liberal pig who started all this.”

I was soft peddling it. I began to despise the GOPe back around 1994 during the Prop 187 fight.

A cadre of GOPe treason party members flew out to support the illegal aliens and to fight against our grass roots Prop 187 campaign. Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and Texas governor GW Bush were prominent members of that treason party. I knew that Dubya was no good before he was elected President and he lived down to my expectations.


36 posted on 11/20/2014 10:31:18 PM PST by Pelham (Welcome to post-America. Press uno for Spanish. Gracias.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I know quite a few legal Hispanics that are against amnesty. GOP better grow a pair and stop obama.


37 posted on 11/20/2014 10:49:41 PM PST by eekitsagreek
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To: sport

Hammer

Nail

Articles of Impeachment on the White House door!


38 posted on 11/20/2014 10:53:25 PM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Left tellin us what we think and lecturing us how to win

priceless

it’s like Heydrich telling Jews which train was the safe one ...


39 posted on 11/20/2014 10:54:13 PM PST by wardaddy (the GOP are worthless as tits on a boar hog....and are natural liars)
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To: Westbrook
That’s like saying, “We shouldn’t offend people who hate us and want to kill us, because they might hate us and want to kill us.”

LOL, that's as good as any analogy I have seen recently.

40 posted on 11/21/2014 12:42:58 AM PST by Mark17 (Uninvited he sat down and opened up his mind, about old dogs and children, and watermelon wine)
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