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... of that. Thus it is with the GOP quest for racial power (link): Latinos, who have the lowest rates of health coverage in the country, are among the strongest backers of President Obama's healthcare law. In a recent national poll, supporters outnumbered detractors by more than 2 to 1. Latinos also overwhelmingly see guaranteeing healthcare as a core government responsibility, surveys show. Yet...

Who better to solve the GOP's demographic problems then acolytes of the people who created the problem in the first place? RNC chairman Reince Priebus convened the "Growth and Opportunity Project" (link) to make suggestions on how the GOP could reach more voters. The Project's first suggestion is to pass comprehensive immigration reform to deal with demographic problems the GOP has. As discussed...

... again, scroll back through the GOP, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Tea Parties pages, or see the date archives. Or, just start at September's Why isn't Mitt Romney winning, when the GOP did everything right?

... of the Associated Press offer "GOP shows signs of bending after election defeat" ([1]). I'll discuss why it's wrong after the excerpt: For years, Republicans have adhered fiercely to their bedrock conservative principles, resisting Democratic calls for tax hikes, comprehensive immigration reform and gun control. Now, seven weeks after an electoral drubbing, some party leaders and rank-and-file...

... especially true in California. If the GOP proposed such a plan, the Democrats would oppose it and attempt to weaken it. But, just for the sake of argument, let's assume the GOP is able to pass that plan. Let's say it happened on a Monday. You know what would happen on Tuesday? The Democrats and other groups would set to work weakening the plan. There's a multi-million dollar "industry" dedicated...

Mitt Romney conducted a conference call with his backers today, and showed that he's as clueless after his loss as he was before. From this (note: not The Onion): [Romney said] the president had followed the "old playbook" of using targeted initiatives to woo specific interest groups - "especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people." "In each case, they were...

... of the major reasons for the GOP loss appears to be losing white voters, not the "Hispanic vote". Comprehensive immigration reform - aka "amnesty" - is bad policy, as described at that link. It's also incredibly bad politics for the GOP: it would give the Democratic Party millions of new voters. If you oppose amnesty, please take a moment and contact Boehner with your thoughts via boehner.house....

... of HotAir is ready to help the GOP deal itself a losing hand, and is trying to round up others. Morrissey quotes ( peekURL.com/zSYJQs5 ) this from Jeff Poor of the Daily Caller: After Tuesday night's re-election victory for President Barack Obama, MSNBC's Chuck Todd predicted that one of the president's agenda items - one promise he never managed to fulfill in his first term - would breeze into...

Time for another edition of Billionaires Know Best. This edition features an ad that Thomas Peterffy of Interactive Brokers (net worth over $4 billion) will spend $5 to $10 million running in swing states. In the ad (video below), the Hungarian-born Peterffy complains about, among other things, the non-existent threat of socialism. First the transcript of the ad, followed by a discussion of why...

... the greatest thinkers of the GOP (e.g., peekURL.com/zHdnAfd ), the Romney campaign, and the conservative establishment and wonder what's going on? Why isn't the GOP putting this one away? Haven't the GOP and their leading thinkers done everything right?? Let's review: * Choosing Paul Ryan - a fan of the author Ayn Rand - as the vice presidential candidate. Isn't Atlas Shrugged (and the band Rush...

For an example of the low-level of Timothy Noah's reporting, first see the post about Jack Hitt of Harper's for the backstory. Of that, Noah (formerly of Slate, now of The New Republic) writes ( "Pas Devant Les Enfants, Tampa: Puerto Rico Out Of U.S.?", peekURL.com/zSg8UAU ): Buzzfeed's Zeke Miller suggests it wasn't Latino-baiting, but rather a protest against some procedural disrespect toward...

Jack Hitt writes for Harpers Magazine and after this I'm going to take the other things he writes with a big grain of salt. He says: (Ron Paul supporters) were protesting a decision by RNC officials not to seat members of the Maine delegation, which was split between Paul and Romney supporters following rule changes made just prior to the convention. There were energetic shouts of "Aye!" and "Nay...

... good news about the newly-passed GOP platform. From [1]: The official party position now reads that "State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked," and says the Department of Justice should immediately drop its lawsuits against controversial state immigration laws in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah. [The] amendment (put forward by Kris Kobach), which is...

The Texas GOP has passed their 2012 platform, and it includes an immigration plank that some will present as somewhat "liberal" or "lenient". But, those aren't the correct words. The Texas GOP's new policy is better described as friendly to corrupt businesses. They call for a guest workers program that sounds like the ones George W Bush proposed during his terms in office. And, the group behind...

... chart below [1] shows that the GOP has become a party of crazed accountants, obsessing over the budget deficit. At the same time, the immigration issue has become less important to the GOP. That's despite immigration - which determines who lives in the U.S. and who votes - being a far more vital and fundamental issue than spending. Deficits can be reduced in future years with increased economic...

... libertarians camp - and now the GOP under their sway - don't want it to come back. In fact, they want to get rid of even more: "The president... needs to take much more than a scalpel to the Department of Education's budget - there’s room to take an ax," said Lindsey Burke, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. Thus, my question to those in the teaparties or...