{"id":8150,"date":"2011-01-03T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2011-01-03T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:09:49","slug":"demography-is-destiny-so-too-running-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8150\/demography-is-destiny-so-too-running-mates\/","title":{"rendered":"Demography Is Destiny; So Too Running Mates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With much of the 2012 presidential election coverage centering on Republican candidates, it\u2019s worth noting \u2013 as <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/01\/03\/hispanic-vote-offers-obama-an-antidote-to-tea-party-politics\/ \" target=\"_blank\">this blog from the <em>National Interest<\/em> does<\/a> \u2013 that President Barack Obama posted lopsided support among African-American and Hispanic voters during the 2008 campaign (95% and 67%, respectively).\u00a0 Those numbers will likely grow as Hispanics continue to increase their share of the voting base.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s a WASP-ish GOP frontrunner like Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, or even Sarah Palin to do?\u00a0 Any contestant eyeing a general election takedown of Obama-Biden (or even, heaven forbid, Obama-Clinton) should make travel plans for Santa Fe, New Mexico. \u00a0There newly inaugurated Governor Susana Martinez can teach them how to frame <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/11\/19\/susana-martinez-marco-rubio-and-the-new-latino-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\">a winning position on illegal immigration<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s not about the Mexican population.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the Mexican border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That message, combined with Martinez\u2019s career as a state prosecutor and traditional values stances, earned her 30% of the Hispanic vote in a heavily Democratic state.\u00a0 It\u2019s the kind of success story that just might earn her a place as the next Vice President of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With much of the 2012 presidential election coverage centering on Republican candidates, it\u2019s worth noting \u2013 as this blog from the National Interest does \u2013 that President Barack Obama posted lopsided support among African-American and Hispanic voters during the 2008 campaign (95% and 67%, respectively).\u00a0 Those numbers will likely grow as Hispanics continue to increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,668,981,201,160,365,1336],"class_list":["post-8150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barak-obama","tag-immigration","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-mitt-romney","tag-sarah-palin","tag-susana-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}