Latinos and the GOP
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies casts considerable doubt on the Bush Administration?s assumption that immigration policy is an effective tool in wooing the Latino electorate. In ?Losing Ground or Staying Even? Republicans and the Politics of the Latino Vote,? University of Maryland Professor of Government James Gimpel uses a variety of national and state polls to show that Hispanic political allegiance to the Democratic Party has remained consistent over the years, and that any increase in the proportion of Latinos voting Republican is principally a consequence of low turnout among Latino Democrats.
Can self-interest win where principle has lost?
Not only is the Bush Administration’s pandering on illegal immigration bad public policy, it’s also bad politics: A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies casts considerable doubt on the Bush Administration?s assumption that immigration pol…