According to
www.electoral-vote.com, Florida Senator Marco Rubio is headed to Iowa to start campaigning more than 3 years before the first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucuses.
Here is the excerpt from the November 9 editorial on the aforementioned website.
Welcome to the 2016 Campaign
Political junkies who are despondent that the campaign is over can cheer up. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), is heading out to Iowa to start his 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination. Rubio is well aware that Romney did miserably with Latinos, and hopes that Mexican Americans will vote for a Cuban American. Maybe that will happen, but he first has to win the Republican nomination in primaries ruled by angry, old, white men and not many Latinos.
Getting Latinos to switch parties won't be so easy if President Obama has his way. It is likely he will make immigration reform a key item on his second term agenda. He could easily revive George W. Bush's immigration reform plan, coauthored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and barnstorm the country trying to pass it. If he succeeds, the Democrats will get the credit. If Senate Republicans filibuster it or the House votes it down, Republicans will get the blame. There is little Rubio can do to change this if Obama decides this is a good way to lock Latinos into the Democratic Party for a generation.
