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You and I know what the Republican problem was in 2012. We just heard it late last week. It was a Pew Center poll. If the "white vote" had shown up in the same percentage and voted for Romney in 2012 as it voted for McCain in 2008, Romney would have won.
Obama got many fewer votes in 2012 than he got in 2008.
The difference-maker was, a lot of white voters stayed home.
Why?
Well, I'll tell you.
A lot of Republicans think that white voters stayed home because conservative talk radio during the primary season demanded that Romney be a rigid, card-carrying conservative. And because the right-wing conservative talk radio host demanded that Romney be something that he wasn't, it turned off a bunch of moderate Republicans.
That's not what happened. What happened was -- well, who can know for certain. My best guess at what happened was, why the white vote stayed home, they didn't think the Republican Party was conservative enough, but there was also a disgust, who are these people? They're the bitter clingers. It's one thing to hear Obama denouncing 'em. It's another thing to hear Republican Party going after everybody but them.
They're listening to both candidates' campaign, making appeals here and appeals there, making a generic economic appeal. And I think there was just a general sense of disgust or resignation, just throw their hands up in resignation. None of this relates to me, but the point is the Republicans are now accepting what the Democrats and the media are telling them, that they lost because the Hispanics don't like 'em. The Hispanics think that you Republicans want them to go away. The Hispanics think that you Republicans want them to self-deport. And if you don't self-deport, they think you want to kick 'em out of the country. So you Republicans, you better get with it, and you better make the Hispanics understand that you like 'em.
So the party's doing that. They've got this new pathway to citizenship immigration bill. They're saying all the right things. But, again, remember, the percentage of the electorate that was Hispanic in 2012 was 7%. Obama got 71% of it; Romney got 27%. And if you reverse that, Romney gets 70%, he still loses. The highest percentage of the Hispanic vote any Republican president's ever got was Bush at 44. So the point of saying that even if Romney gets 70% he would still lose, it tells you that the Republican Party's problem is not the Hispanic vote.
It goes far deeper or is far more diversified than that. No doubt about it. How else would you read this? If you give Romney 70% of the Hispanic vote and he still loses, with everything else in 2012 being the same, then what are they doing? They're following the advice of their consultant class. They're following what the media's telling them.
They're following what the Democrats are telling them, what the conventional wisdom inside the Beltway is. I found it fascinating.
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The Hispanic Vote Isn't Why Romney Lost - The Rush Limbaugh Show
Obama got many fewer votes in 2012 than he got in 2008.
The difference-maker was, a lot of white voters stayed home.
Why?
Well, I'll tell you.
A lot of Republicans think that white voters stayed home because conservative talk radio during the primary season demanded that Romney be a rigid, card-carrying conservative. And because the right-wing conservative talk radio host demanded that Romney be something that he wasn't, it turned off a bunch of moderate Republicans.
That's not what happened. What happened was -- well, who can know for certain. My best guess at what happened was, why the white vote stayed home, they didn't think the Republican Party was conservative enough, but there was also a disgust, who are these people? They're the bitter clingers. It's one thing to hear Obama denouncing 'em. It's another thing to hear Republican Party going after everybody but them.
They're listening to both candidates' campaign, making appeals here and appeals there, making a generic economic appeal. And I think there was just a general sense of disgust or resignation, just throw their hands up in resignation. None of this relates to me, but the point is the Republicans are now accepting what the Democrats and the media are telling them, that they lost because the Hispanics don't like 'em. The Hispanics think that you Republicans want them to go away. The Hispanics think that you Republicans want them to self-deport. And if you don't self-deport, they think you want to kick 'em out of the country. So you Republicans, you better get with it, and you better make the Hispanics understand that you like 'em.
So the party's doing that. They've got this new pathway to citizenship immigration bill. They're saying all the right things. But, again, remember, the percentage of the electorate that was Hispanic in 2012 was 7%. Obama got 71% of it; Romney got 27%. And if you reverse that, Romney gets 70%, he still loses. The highest percentage of the Hispanic vote any Republican president's ever got was Bush at 44. So the point of saying that even if Romney gets 70% he would still lose, it tells you that the Republican Party's problem is not the Hispanic vote.
It goes far deeper or is far more diversified than that. No doubt about it. How else would you read this? If you give Romney 70% of the Hispanic vote and he still loses, with everything else in 2012 being the same, then what are they doing? They're following the advice of their consultant class. They're following what the media's telling them.
They're following what the Democrats are telling them, what the conventional wisdom inside the Beltway is. I found it fascinating.
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The Hispanic Vote Isn't Why Romney Lost - The Rush Limbaugh Show
