Republicans are going to find the Hispanic vote going heavily against them in 2016. So farewell, any possibility of winning Colorado, Nevada, or Florida. Arizona will be close, and New Mexico will be a blowout. This will be enough to swing states on the brink with relatively-small Hispanic populations, like Ohio.
There has never been the mass animus against non-black Hispanics in any part of America that there was against blacks. Democrats win big when they have massive get-out-the-vote drives.
Whatever conservative tendencies some Hispanics have are going to be better expressed among Democrats than among Republicans.
If the Republican nominee for President reaches out to hispanic and black voters, I think they can make inroads. That means listening, learning, and then talking. It means having an inclusive message.
If a Republican nominee takes an unrealistic immigration position the way Mitt Romney did in 2012, they won't make inroads with hispanic voters.
But, in the end, people of all backrounds have been victims of Barack Obama's failed economic policies, his failed health care law, his reckless foreign policy, and his lawlessness. It's now time for the Republican nominee for President to run on a hopeful and optimistic vision to restore integrity to the white house and restore good public policy.
