latinas. so when you start looking at how the republican party is actually in trouble, mitt romney specifically, not only is there a perceived war on latinos, but also on women. and then you have two groups. do your then diagram, and they happen to be latina women, and you re, like, oh, god, you re in trouble. steve schmidt, john mccain had a very strong immigration position that could have been very appealing to latino voters before his presidential campaign got under way. he kind of left that behind as the campaign progressed, as did president bush before him. but did you notice that latino voters track these issues carefully enough that they are noticing exactly what kind of moves the republican candidates make on these? yeah, no doubt. these issues are covered extensively in the spanish language media. spanish language-speaking voters hear about it.
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hispanic vote, also, he s under 20% in support among hispanics in part because of the immigration position and he has to do something about that. still ahead, mitt romney isn t the only republican that president obama has his sights on. democrats think linking him to paul ryan and the budget plan could be a winning campaign strategy, are they right? [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could ve had a v8.
what he has done for 20 years you love visuals. when you are advising you love visuals. and the visual is etch-a-sketch. i am sure this fella has young kids or grandkids. and they have one. that s why it popped in its head. he never would have done that on purpose and thank god, the candidate it. you can imagine if romney had said it? let me make one point, the romney campaign is having with this, which is that they cannot seem to get a message out. they need to move. when he endorse something, he endorsed the ryan plan, that was a big mistake. he is etch-a-sketching himself way to the right with his immigration position and his position on the ryan plan. he is off on the right. it won t be that easy to get back to the center, especially with this comment. if the ryan plan was a mistake, it won t solve the health care problems.
front-runner for a second. you will not give that up. and again, why should you? i think he is making a mistake skipping arizona. yes, there s a large lds population, but when you look, yes, you could argue that gingrich s immigration position will not fly very well there and that is why romney was delivering a fine line. it is a conservative electorate if you play it right, but the problem is, newt maybe on immigration, newt can t do it there. it like a one market state. it not as expenseive to play there. st i think of the brass ring grabber in chivas mi in chief