Rove says: More White Votes Won't Save the GOP
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323873904578569480696746650.htmlHow much better? A higher turnout among whites (to 2008 levels) and a small increase in the GOP share of the white vote (say raising it 1% to 60%), along with a somewhat better performance among Latinos (say 35%), and Mr. Romney would have landed in the White House.
The reality is that the nonwhite share of the vote will keep growing. As the American Enterprise Institute's Henry Olsen pointed out in a recent speech, the nonwhite vote as a share of total voters has increased in every presidential election since 1996 by 2% (much of it Hispanic) while the share of the white vote has dropped by 2% each election.
If the GOP leaves nonwhite voters to the Democrats, then its margins in safe congressional districts and red states will dwindle—not overnight, but over years and decades.
This is why I think trying to go after white voters who vote against their own interests is a waste of time. Throw everything we've got at the Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Indian population we can. Now I'm a black American - but I don't think in the next few years we will be a sure thing for the Democratic Party. The VRA's most important piece being struck down means that we will be the biggest and easiest targets as we are so solid for the Democratic party.
Knock me over with a feather - Rove said something factual. And I agreed with him.
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In the media WOULD state it though. And preferably not a night time pundit/anchor on MSNBC. 
regardless of their race? Wow, what an original idea, I know. 
However, apparently, it's too difficult for most of them to grasp, let alone advocate for...........
It's because Karl Rove wrote it. 
And his audience consists of people who can't make that distinction themselves. Shit - they would take one look at my husband and hear him talking to a sibling on his cell phone and say "papers please". . . . because you know - Italian and Costa Rican are the exact same thing. 
I have to say on that point - aside from other travels - I've been to both Belize and Costa Rica in the past 14 months. We have immigrants from these countries in my community. You are making an excellent point here.
Our friend Alan is beyond a shadow of a doubt - a white man by APPEARANCE. He just happens to be Latino and from Costa Rica - now an American citizen.
My colleague Edsen - is also from Costa Rica - another now American Citizen - and he could be my brother.
Edsen is a foaming at the mouth Romney supporter - and Alan would rather anally rend and torture himself with a hot poker before he would ever vote for a Republican.
Thank God Rove 'knows it all'. Thank God. Because I think I can turn Edsen . . . he's already looking at Christie as suspect.
