For all the numbers bouncing around the immigration reform debate, the most relevant number is 27 percent. That's the share of Gov Romney's Latino vote and that's the reason this much needed advance in public policy …
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Jared Bernstein: Immigration Reform: Stand Down IT, Lobbyists!
The good news for the party is that the most prominent Republican officeholders have publicly acknowledged the depth of the problem. They are finally focusing in a serious way on immigration , the issue that put Romney most …
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Jeb Bush joins Morning Joe to discuss ” Immigration Wars,” the book he co-authored with Clint Bolick, why he doesn't support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and why it breaks his heart that Mitt Romney isn't in …
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Jeb Bush's shifting position on immigration — MSNBC
Jeb Bush joins Morning Joe to discuss ” Immigration Wars,” the book he co-authored with Clint Bolick, why he doesn't support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and why it breaks his heart that Mitt Romney isn't in …
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Jeb Bush's shifting position on immigration — MSNBC
Jeb Bush's reversal on immigration reform throws a wrench into the conventional wisdom surrounding the 2016 presidential election, where many expected Bush would run as a moderate antidote to Mitt Romney's hardline …
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5 Republican Hopefuls Jeb Bush Might Out-Conservative On …
WASHINGTON • Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush writes in a new book that Mitt Romney moved so far to the right on immigration that it proved “all but impossible” for the Republican presidential nominee to …
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Jeb Bush: Romney's stance on immigration was costly | The Salt …
IF NOVEMBER'S presidential election, in which some exit polls had Mitt Romney winning just 27% of the Latino vote, was a wake-up call to Republicans, the sleep must…
Scarborough recalled just how wrong Republicans, and many mainstream pundits, had been about the outcome of the election. He, too, he said, fell for the conventional wisdom in the final weeks, that Mitt Romney was riding ..
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Daily Kos: The conservative bubble and the immigration debate
Two numbers explain why a rational Republican Party needs to do something dramatic on immigration : 27 percent and 2 percent. Twenty-seven percent is the percentage of the Latino vote Mitt Romney received in 2012, …
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The GOP Calculus On Immigration Reform – The Dish | By Andrew …
Six years ago, former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez helped craft President Bush's immigration reform campaign only to watch it die in Congress. During the last presidential campaign, he led Mitt Romney's outreach to ..
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