[Neu Pragmatist]

No way .
Like it or not , the Bush machine has the ability to pull enough of the Hispanic vote to win . It will be needed to offset the single white female “fluke/dunham” vote that the Republicans will never come close to winning again .
The loss of that single white female vote is an electoral sea change that will be hard to overcome without an ethnic trade-off vote.

[teflon9]

What is really needed is a color-blind, populist appeal to working-class voters. Tell them how illegal immigration is lowering wages of all races (white, black, hispanic) and how environmental regs, hostility towards coal etc. is raising the energy prices of the above folks. Also attack offshoring of manufacturing jobs. And lay off social issues. People are worried about their stomachs, not their souls. Problem with this eminently sensible approach (which would peel off many hispanic votes and perhaps 10 percent of black votes) is that both the Chamber of Commerce-types (who love outsourcing and cheap illegal labor) and Rush Limbaugh (who is genetically anti-populist) would not go along with this.