Hispanic Hype

The AP story starts out with a dire warning for Mitt Romney:

Running mates? Gambling Billionaire Sheldon Adelson and Newt Gingrich

At first glance, it was extremely odd that Newt Gingrich chose to have a Latino outreach event in New Hampshire on Sunday and engage in intense Hispandering -  including a direct endorsement of Amnesty:

It is (aaargh!) 11 years since Steve Sailer definitively demonstrated in GOP Future Depends on Winning Larger Share of the White Vote that because of their relative sizes tiny shifts in the white vote are hugely more important than big shifts in the Hispanic vote (if such an unlikely event were ever to happen).

Newsweek's Andrew Romano has an article titled "The GOP's Senior Moment." Turnout was huge among seniors, and rejection of Obama profound.(By the way, seniors are much whiter than younger Americans, because they reflect the America of 65+ years ago.) Seniors don't need Obamacare because Lyndon Johnson passed Medicare in the 60's (over the

The good news for Democrat honchos is that many Hispanics like the D-brand. The bad news for Obama boosters is Latinos are not highly motivated to actually get out and vote, despite decades of effort from liberal legislators to make voting as easy as possible (like multilingual ballots). That’s too bad for BHO because Hispanics like him, they really like him.

"State GOP's problem? Too white, too male", by Martin Wisckol, Orange County Register, May 14, 2009. (Also here if you want to comment).