Star Parker: GOP facing train wreck with blacks and Hispanics

75 percent of Hispanics prefer bigger government compared to 41 percent of the general population.

Star Parker
Spero Forum
4/9/2012

National Journal‘s Ron Brownstein provided an eye-opening reminder in a recent column about the impact of changing ethnic demographics on America’s political landscape.

The flashing red light of Brownstein’s message is pointed to the Republican Party.

America is changing inexorably into a country that is less and less white and the Republican Party remains today a party whose base is overwhelmingly white.

Brownstein estimates that President Barack Obama could be re-elected this year with as little as 39 percent of the white vote. He notes that in 2008, when Obama won with just 43 percent of the white vote, it was the first time ever that a presidential candidate was victorious with double digit losses of white voters…

…With black and Hispanic voters seemingly ensconced with the Democrats — Obama won 95 percent of the black vote and 67 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008 — is there anything Republicans can do to turn around what seems to be an inevitable train wreck for their party?…

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