just an accident he got 71%. they ran a subterranean campaign under the anglo media radar with people like the latina oprah. most anglos have never heard of her. you got me. cristina saralegui, huge host on univision. she cut ads with michelle obama. chris, here is the main point. if they hadn t run up the score, if they got 60 or 65% of the latino vote they still would have won the election but immigration reform would not be up right now at all. the republicans would not have gotten the message. so it s all about the election. good work. great reporting. we have a more recent, the vote in the senate last week. 76% of republicans voted against it. 14 votes out of 45 or 46. here is the question now, what do they do looking forward. if you are interested in presidential politics, you got to consider 80% of the electorate is hispanic and it will grow over our lifetime.
let me ask you this. let me ask you this. i think politicians are rational. i don t buy that we are all smarter than them because we don t run for election. i don t buy that. i never did. you re a politician, you re a republican, you have a district 95% anglo. or 90% white, if you will. you go home to them in the meetings you have to go to. the town meetings, and you face the big question, why did you vote for immigration reform. that s a good question. and what is your answer if you re a republican? i think the answer is you get the head of the local chamber of commerce with you and you say immigrants provide a lot of the entrepreneurship in this country. what else are we going to do with the 11 million who are here. that s not an issue with republicans. they don t care. the big question republicans want to know, mr. or ms. smith, will this stop illegal immigration? yes or no. what will your answer be? yes. you believe that? it is already there is already very little if
they can t wait for this. and you can say the district is 95% anglo, a certain term meaning nonhispanic. why should i worry about it? and that is becoming the prevailing attitude for a lot of folks who want to block and tackle on this issue is to say look, we re looking at two million plus white who didn t participate in the last election. the assumption is that those whites would have voted for mitt romney or the republican candidate. more conservative. more conservative. and i don t believe that that s the case. they stayed home for a reason. a lot had to do with the nominee and party as a whole. i don t think it was tied to an issue like immigration. it was much bigger than that, about big government republicanism, et cetera. i think the party is making a big mistake when it sit there s and stares 50,000 hispanics turning 18 years old every month in this country, looking at that number and going, you know what? we still want to play the white card. the fact of the matter i
i think the party is making a big mistake when it sit there s and stares 50,000 hispanics turning 18 years old every month in this country, looking at that number and going, you know what? we still want to play the white card. the fact of the matter is republicans have two caucuses. it s got to be bigger than that. they have the sensible caucus who are sensible on the issue and the suicide caucus. let me ask you this. let me ask you this. i think politicians are rational. i don t buy that we are all smarter than them because we don t run for election. i don t buy that. i never did. you re a politician, you re a republican, you have a district 95% anglo. or 90% white, if you will. you go home to them in the meetings you have to go to. the town meetings, and you face the big question, why did you vote for immigration reform. that s a good question. and what is your answer if you re a republican? i think the answer is you get the head of the local chamber of commerce with you
we have a more recent, the vote in the senate last week. 76% of republicans voted against it. 14 votes out of 45 or 46. here is the question now, what do they do looking forward. if you are interested in presidential politics, you got to consider 80% of the electorate is hispanic and it will grow over our lifetime. they can t wait for this. and you can say the district is 95% anglo, a certain term meaning nonhispanic. why should i worry about it? and that is becoming the prevailing attitude for a lot of folks who want to block and tackle on this issue is to say look, we re looking at two million plus white who didn t participate in the last election. the assumption is that those whites would have voted for mitt romney or the republican candidate. more conservative. more conservative. and i don t believe that that s the case. they stayed home for a reason. a lot had to do with the nominee and party as a whole. i don t think it was tied to an issue like immigration. it was much