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Republicans should go for the white vote, a prominent anti-immigration think tank said Thursday.
On Thursday, the conservative, nonpartisan think tank Center for Immigration Studies based its recommendation on a review of newly released Census data showing that white voters without college degrees stayed home in larger numbers than other ethnic groups.
"As Republicans think about how they can expand their voter base, the new data suggest that one of their biggest problems in the last presidential election was that so many less-educated whites sat home," Steven Camarota, the Center's Director of Research and author of the report, said in a press release. "These voters, who have been hard hit by the recession, have traditionally supported Republicans. It seems likely that by supporting the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, GOP legislators would further alienate these voters."
The report says that if Romney had won 3 percentage points more of the white vote, he would have won the popular vote. By contrast, he would have had to win 23 percentage points more among Hispanics to win the popular vote.
Those tallies wouldnt necessarily have altered the final outcome, which depends on the Electoral College. The Latino vote is not concentrated in swing states, though Hispanic voters play a key role in the battleground state of Florida.
The growing importance of the Latino vote has prompted strategists to rethink the political landscape after the 2012 elections, with some predicting the demographic shift could put reliably red states into play.
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