Contra to some Republicans who just a day after Obama was re-elected thought that the GOP had to give in on "comprehensive immigration reform" or that Marco Rubio should be the default candidate in 2016 in order to get the Latino vote, Democratic strategist David Plouffe lays the cards on the table and shows just how foolish this line of thought was (and still is):
But, I asked Plouffe, wasn’t the G.O.P. just one postmodern presidential candidate — say, a Senator Marco Rubio — away from getting back into the game?
Pouncing, he replied: “Let me tell you something. The Hispanic voters in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico don’t give a damn about Marco Rubio, the Tea Party Cuban-American from Florida. You know what? We won the Cuban vote! And it’s because younger Cubans are behaving differently than their parents. It’s probably my favorite stat of the whole campaign. So this notion that Marco Rubio is going to heal their problems — it’s not even sophomoric; it’s juvenile! And by the way: the bigger problem they’ve got with Latinos isn’t immigration. It’s their economic policies and health care. The group that supported the president’s health care bill the most? Latinos.”
This is bad a sign. Plouffe and the rest of the Democratic brain trust must be very happy to see that Republicans learned the exact opposite lessons they should have in 2012.
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