despite the fact that steve schmitt will advocate for it now. there s a theory with growing momentum republicans don t need hispanic votes, they need more white votes. this is a conservative activist voicing that argument in a may radio interview. the people of the republican should reach out to are the white votes that the white voters are who didn t vote in the last election and there are millions of them. i think when you have an establishment-run nomination system they give us a series of losers which they ve given us with dole and mccain and romney. now, karl rove disagrees, writing in a recent wall street journal op-ed a reagan-like percentage of white voters would yield a narrower win because the nonwhite share of the vote doubled to 28% in 2013 from 13% in 84. the reality is that the nonwhite share of the vote will keep growing if the gop leaves