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April 15, 2014

Study: Immigrants (Both Illegal and Legal) Favor Democrats Over Republicans, 2 to 1

So what do you do?

Gimpel’s solution to all of this: There is none, at least not anytime soon. Nominating Latino candidates doesn’t seem to help Republicans (Ted Cruz lost the Latino vote in his Senate race two years ago, even in deep-red Texas), nor does taking different positions on illegal immigration. The only thing to do is … wait.

...

Wait a generation or two for low-skilled, Democratic-voting immigrants to have kids who grow up to become middle-class independents and then you’ve got a shot. In the meantime, gulp.

There is one possible solution, but it relies entirely upon external events: If something happens to discredit progressivism (such as a new recession) to make immigrant populations actually begin to doubt their preferred big government, big spending solutions, there's hope of a realignment.

But that, of course, is entirely outside our control.* It's basically hoping for a Miracle (though a dark one).

* Except, of course, for our ability to sabotage the economy by speaking badly about it and hoping for Obamacare to fail.

Progressives have long asserted that prayer doesn't work, except in the case of conservative "prayers" for a failing economy and failing Healthcare.gov, in which case "prayer" works wonders and changes the world.



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