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To: JohnM who wrote (207835)	11/7/2012 5:01:08 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540990

My hope is that the dismal track record of voter suppression in the courts coupled with its obvious ability to provoke higher turnouts in "revenge" actually lessens the suppression antics next time around. It's just pouring gasoline on the fire at this point because it is watched so closely and gets so much media attention. Someone else kind of agrees: A Theory Behind the GOP Losses Andrew Cohen: "May I suggest instead a simple, elegant overriding theory on why we won't have a Romney Administration in 2013? No serious political party in America -- no legitimate party in any viable democracy -- can win an election by suppressing votes. So long as the Republican Party endorses (and enacts) voting laws designed to make it harder for registered voters to vote, so long as Republican officials like Ohio's Jon Husted contort themselves to interpret those laws in a restrictive fashion, the Republicans will continue to play a loser's game." "That's my theory, anyway, and I'm sticking to it. Having covered for the past two years the voting rights front in this epic election cycle, I have come to believe that the Republicans will begin to win presidential elections again only when they start competing for votes with the substance of their ideas."

To: JohnM who wrote (207835)	11/7/2012 7:08:50 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540990

"Chuck Todd used the phrase this morning that "the demographic time bomb just went off." Sounds right. But it needs to be understood that the Obama folk ran the best campaign ever run. So while that time bomb went off, it needed superb organizational skills to get that to show up in the polls." Indeed. As a white person who's lived in barrios for the past twenty years, I can tell you that Hispanics and blacks AREN'T bro's! The coalition Obama built may not survive. All it may take is the right wedge issue, pushed in the right way, to crack it to pieces. I think Republicans "family values" appeal to Hispanics greatly. But Republican immigration positions, when most Hispanics in the US are just a generation or two away from an illegal border crosser(s) who made the brave journey for the future of their offspring, is not. Republicans could easily fix this. They just have to quit catering to the particular hate of one group of old white supporters.