LatinaLista — For all their outreach to Latinos, the GOP must think that compromising on immigration reform — and to this point, no one knows exactly what their definition of compromise entails — is all that is needed to win Latinos over to their side. But they’re not looking at the bigger picture. Immigration reform [...]
The GOP’s $10 million problem with Latinos isn’t messaging — it’s the message
LatinaLista — When Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus first announced that his party would be devoting $10 million to outreach to minority, women and young voters as a result of the findings from their internal analysis GOP Growth & Opportunity Project, my knee-jerk reaction was that they were better off saving their money. As [...]
TIME interview with Sen. Marco Rubio shows a Latino who’s learned to get ahead in politics
LatinaLista — Florida Senator Marco Rubio is riding high these days. Not only has he emerged as a leading Republican voice on immigration reform but he’s been chosen by his party to deliver the GOP response to the State of the Union address next Tuesday, as well as, being the subject cover of an upcoming [...]
Attempts to sow distrust between Latinos and Obama won’t work this time around
LatinaLista — It wasn’t but days after the presidential showdown between Obama and Romney that everyone — from media political analysts to veteran GOP politicians — admitted, if not somewhat grudgingly or incredulously, that Obama’s win could be credited in a very large part to the Latino turnout. Everbody knew, whether they went on the [...]
Signs on the horizon signal Latino Republicans may be the ones to save the GOP
LatinaLista — By now, everyone knows that the GOP leadership so turned off most Latinos that the overwhelming support lavished on Obama by Latino voters in last month’s election was a direct consequence of the anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-gay, anti-DREAMer, anti-fill-in-the-blank rhetoric that dominated the primary and fed into the presidential campaign. It’s not surprising that [...]
Until GOP leadership advocates for party change, there’s little hope of it happening
LatinaLista — There’s no better prescription for the Republican leadership going forward than to take to heart the old saying: “real change comes only from within and not without.” There are encouraging signs already that some in the GOP party want to put this phrase into practice, but there’s only one problem — it’s not [...]
