The GOP for the first time in more than 40 years lost a huge support of the American minorities in the November 2012 presidential election. The GOP presidential flag bearer in that election Mitt Romney received only 29% of the Latino-American votes which was the lowest presidential votes ever received by any Republican presidential candidate since the 1970s. Between the 1970s and the 1980s respectively, all the GOP presidential candidates received more than one-third of the Latino-American votes except Mitt Romney. The last Republican President in the White House, Mr. George Bush Jr received more than 40% of the Latino votes for his reelection in 2004.
The Latino-Americans are now the nation's largest minority group with more than 60,000 Latinos turning voting age every month or approximately about 4 million new Latino voters in every presidential election circle. The three GOP traditional red states of Georgia, Arizona and Texas may soon become the earliest battleground states in 2016 presidential election or latest in the 2020 presidential elections because of the rapidly growing Latino-American population in those states. Today in America, it is almost practically impossible for any political party to win the White House without winning at least 40% or more votes from the Latinos.
The GOP has now come to the full realization that their party in 2013 now has a big minority voting problem in America. The GOP establishment circles are all busy today searching for the political solutions and the ways out of their present major political obstacle or barrier in the wrong places. This present political predicament of the GOP may prevent this party from winning any national election again in America. One of the answers that the GOP has decided to use to return to the national acceptance in America in 2016 is the Florida young Latino-American senator Marcos Rubio who was given the rare opportunity to deliver the GOP response address to the President Barack Obama State of the Union address yesterday. The GOP has been secretly projecting and promoting the political image of Marcos Rubio after they lost the presidential election of last year November as a bait that will catch the Latino-Americans who massively rejected the GOP in November last year.
The Latinos rejected the GOP because of their hostile policies that are all anti-Latino in nature. What the GOP needs right now is not Marcos Rubio, but policies and programs that will directly address the political, economic and the social aspirations of the Latino-Americans in 2013. In conclusion, the erroneous belief that this Florida GOP senator Marcos Rubio is the true and the expected savior that will take the Republican Party back to the limelight, its former glory days and the national acceptance in 2016 and beyond will soon collapse like a pack of playing cards between now and the 2016 presidential election.
No comments:
Post a Comment