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[QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 791872, member: 3079"]
Forest for the trees man.  That sort of near-term short sightedness is what is wrong with the political process and specifically the republican party at this juncture.

Yes hispanics overwhelmingly supported Obama in the last election.  But that is largely due to republican opposition to immigration reform.   If you look at surveys of what matters to hispanics, they are culturally slightly to the right of center.   If republican stopped demonizing them, in a couple of election cycles they could get more than 50% of that vote.

I'm saying this as a moderate and someone who voted for Obama but also would support a moderate republican after 8 years of moving to the left I think we need a rebalance.   But alienating hispanics by using immigration to scare working class white people who work in dying indusries is not a good long term political plan.  They cannot win doing that given the demographic shift in this country, not to mention the fact that it is despicable and playing to the lowest common denominator
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