Have Hispanics Forced the GOP into Electoral College Bankruptcy?

[politicallefty]

As you mentioned, that assumes Florida goes Republican. Regardless of the final results in the state, it will trend Democratic this year. If you guys can't compete among Hispanics, Florida will be very problematic as well (especially since Obama won the Cuban vote this year). There's pretty much no realistic path at all for Republicans without Florida. That's not to mention that the Hispanic population is growing rapidly in Florida, as with the country as a whole.

There are far too many racists and hardliners in the GOP base right now. I think you can only being to solve the GOP problem here when you figure how to deal with them. It seems like the establishment realizes this (as Bush and Rove did when he was in office), but they are at the mercy of the base. Any reasonable comprehensive immigration reform measures will be quickly condemned by the Tea Party and the like as amnesty.

I think the whole Akin/Mourdock debacle is related to this. If you keep nominating extremists, whole segments of the electorate will be turned off. The problem with those types are that their apparent gaffes are really spoken truths about their beliefs. You may have your Bushes and Rubios (particularly on immigration issues), but they are not in the majority of the party and they don't control it.