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an 6 percent Hispanic. These types of racist views are a major problem for a national party that must perform in places such as Florida, Nevada and Colorado, particularly in presidential elections. This is the main GOP political divide on immigration reform: between those focused on the electoral dynamic

o appeal to an increasingly diverse nation when the behavior of a small but vocal portion of its coalition is both offensive and clueless. Gerson: Boehner's response was not only tough — just the kind of rapid response Sister Souljah-ing Republicans need more of — but politically sophisticated. To expr

ing all along for a kind of race where we have to win it fifty to forty-nine in seven states," he said. "We're facing, Grind it out in Virginia and Colorado and Ohio." It took considerable arm-twisting to get Plouffe to think past the details of the daily campaign and consider the long view. "If we wi

r negotiations when it came to light that they were negotiating a plan to raise far more revenue than the deal that Obama was ready to strike with Boehner. Instead of a grand bargain, in late July the White House and Republicans agreed to raise the debt ceiling enough for about eighteen more months o

ime when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing." Accordingly, he said of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington that "it's important for it to go forward because it's important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of peo

cent of the popular vote. The President talked of the election breaking the "fever" in Washington. "We didn't expect the floodgates would open and Boehner would be Tip O'Neill to our Reagan," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President, said. But reelection, he thought, had "liberated" Obama. The