After moments of panic in the immediate aftermath of Mitt Romney’s defeat, some Republicans and conservatives are regaining their equilibrium on the issue of what the GOP should do about immigration and the Hispanic vote.
They’re looking at key questions from the campaign, like how much of Barack Obama’s victory was attributable to Hispanic support. They’re also looking at the Hispanic electorate itself to see how big a role immigration, versus a wide range of other issues, played in voting decisions. The goal, of course, is to win a larger portion of the Hispanic vote, but first to take a clear-eyed look at what actually happened on Nov. 6.
And the lesson for Republicans is: Take your time. Calmly reassess your positions. Don’t pander.
The first question is whether Hispanic voters gave Obama his margin of victory. In a recent analysis, the New York Times’ Allison Kopicki and Will Irving looked at vote totals in each state, plus the percentage of the vote cast by Hispanics, to see what the outcome would have been had Hispanics voted differently.
For example, they looked at Wisconsin, a state the Romney-Ryan team hoped to win. Hispanics weren’t a huge part of the total vote — about 4 percent, according to the exit polls — and Obama won big among them, 65 percent to 31 percent. But going through the totals, Kopicki and Irving concluded that even if every single Hispanic voter in Wisconsin had cast a ballot for Romney, Obama still would have won.
Read More at washingtonexaminer.com . By Byron York.
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Conservatives will never win the major elections until you educate the voters of the differences between the truth of capitalism vs the lies of communism.
Maybe I should have said, Conservatives will never win the major elections until you educate the voters of the differences between fulfilling God’s desires for their hearts vs fulifilling their own desires of their hearts.
I remember how right I always was in my teenager years and how wrong my parents always was…. Now I understand, though my parents presented clear evidence it was as if I were looking through dirty lenses, I wasn’t seeing clearly as a teenager or even as a young adult for several years until I started appling common sense with the clear evidence that was shown to me….
Dear God I made a lot of mistake in those early years, but now with God’s help I see things much clearer today….
Man can say, “I sincerely believe this or that,” but that certainly does not change the facts about the truth… It took man approximately 1500 years after Christ to decide the earth was round and not flat, that the earth revoled around the sun instead of the sun revoling around the earth, and that the earth was in space.
Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. The Bible describes the Earth’s crust (along with a comment on astronomy).
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says the LORD: “If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.”
Although some scientists claim that they have now measured the size of the universe, it is interesting to note that every human attempt to drill through the earth’s crust to the plastic mantle beneath has, thus far, ended in failure.
The Bible described the shape of the earth centuries before people thought that the earth was spherical.
Isaiah 40:22
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
The book of Isaiah was written sometime between 740 and 680 BC. This is at least 300 years before Aristotle suggested that the earth might be a sphere in this book On the Heavens.
We can not find any place in the Bible that claims that the Earth is flat, or that it is the center of the universe. History shows that this conflict, which took place at the time of the Inquisition, was part of a power struggle.
Joe Arpaio has no problems getting elected in Arizona for his 6th term.