Between the GOP and Hispanic voters, bad gets worse

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Posted at 08:04 AM ET, 06/26/2012 TheWashingtonPost
Between the GOP and Hispanic voters, bad gets worse
By Ed Rogers

Nothing about the Supreme Court decision on Arizona's immigration law makes the Republican brand stronger or Mitt Romney's challenge with Hispanic voters easier. In the view of many Hispanic American voters, Obama supported their dignity and Republicans did not. That is an unfair political reality for Romney and the GOP. To thine own self be true. The Republican budget for defensive GOP ads in the Hispanic media went way up yesterday.

Republicans are in a trap of our own making. We can't acknowledge the obvious, that we will not deport 12 million people, lest we aggravate a vocal part of the GOP base eager to call anything less amnesty. Romney can't suddenly appear to be measured or in an Obama-like state of evolution, or he would enhance his negative, pandering stereotype. We can't outrun the growing Hispanic American voting bloc by running up the score with white voters. We would reach a point of diminishing return because of all the bad press. So the Republican campaign doesn't start from an honest place.

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1. Someone should tell Ed about econ 101.

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