Republicans are being ridiculously gun-shy about this issue and should charge forward with it--how can you be afraid of alienating people who vote in block and will never even consider voting for you? Those votes aren't going to be lost, and the few that might be aren't worth doing nothing about this situation. On a sidenote, just citing the facts as they stand, but it seems to me purely race-wise, democrats have such a built-in advantage from the start since they have two huge ethnic groups--blacks and jews--who vote overwhelmingly for them that are distributed in many states, whereas the gop really has only one relatively small group--cubans--located in one state. Hence we have to work harder to get people to vote for our party to make up that difference in order to win.