Been shown repeatedly that Mittens would not have won with 70% of the “Hispanic vote”. What killed him was the millions of conservatives who stayed home. The lesson the GOPee doesn’t want to learn.
I agree. Turnout will be the key to the 2016 election. The GOP has been nominating mushy candidates the past several election cycles that people are not interested in.
But given the state of the nation today, and what hangs in the balance, I think (hope) turnout that is favorable to the right will be record-breaking, especially if you have someone as electrifying as Trump.
They don’t want to learn it because they hate conservatives. That like trying to be a critic of anything you hate...it’s all bad...no intelligence involved.
“Been shown repeatedly that Mittens would not have won with 70% of the “Hispanic vote”. What killed him was the millions of conservatives who stayed home. The lesson the GOPee doesn’t want to learn.”
BTTT
Romney won 59% of the white vote to Obama's 39%. Romney won a higher percentage of the white vote than Reagan, but the size of the white vote in 2012 was much lower than when Reagan ran.
This trend will continue. The size of the white vote will continue to fall and the size of the Hispanic vote continue to grow.
The 2016 GOP candidate can still win on the white vote but he will need to win a larger percentage of the white vote than Romney did.
Hispanics are not evenly distributed. They are congregated in NV, CA, TX, AZ, FL, NJ. Florida is the pivot point in Presidential elections and if the GOP candidate doesn't win FL, he can't get elected. So the Hispanic vote in FL is most important. There are 4 groups of Hispanics in FL: Cubans, South Americans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans(growing the fastest).