GOP’s future may be tied to immigration reform

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The immigration reform bill is headed to the House of Representatives and an uncertain future.  The Senate passed the bill overwhelmingly on Thursday with a 68-32 vote.  Fourteen Republican senators joined the entire Democratic caucus to pass the bill.

 

The immigration reform bill is likely to face strong Republican opposition in the House, but many conservatives argue that passage of the bill will be a boon to Republicans.  As previously reported by Examiner, Republicans lost an embarrassing percentage of the Hispanic and Asian vote in 2008 and 2012.  The GOP won only 31 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008 and did even worse in 2012 with 27 percent.  Likewise, the percentage of Asians voting for the GOP declined from 35 percent in 2008 to 26 percent in 2012.

 

It wasn’t always this way.

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