So, do you think the Senate should take up the Dream Act asap?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/07/gop-opposition-to-2010-dream-act-still-haunting-the-party/

Would it pass? Now that they lost their shirts with Latino vote?

Obama garnered 71 percent of the Latino vote nationwide compared to Mitt Romney’s 27 percent, according to the exit polls. Romney’s showing among Latinos in 2012 is the worst for a GOP candidate since Bob Dole won 21 percent of the Latino vote in 1996. When President George W. Bush won in 2000, he received 44 percent of the Latino vote, and in 2008 John McCain won 31 percent of the vote….

The importance of the Latino vote can especially be underscored in states like Nevada, Florida, and Colorado, where the Latino electorate makes a significant portion of the electorate at 18, 17, and 14 percent, respectively.

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For instance, in 2010 the Senate defeated the DREAM Act 55 to 41 on a mostly party-line vote. Five conservative Democrats voted no along with all but three Republican senators (Bob Bennett, Richard Lugar and Lisa Murkowski). It is striking that, of those three, the first two are no longer in the Senate because they lost primary challenges to Tea Party candidates. Murkowski managed to stay in the Senate only by winning a write-in campaign.

Obviously immigration was not the only reason these GOP officeholders were abandoned by their own party. But it was certainly part of the reason—and that shows what a formidable obstacle Republicans will face in winning over Latino votes. But if the GOP is not to be consigned to indefinite minority status, it desperately needs to rethink its stance on immigration. It can start by passing the DREAM Act.

[Glitterati]

1. If Obama doesn't START here, he's foolish

and, we all know he's not foolish. He has them by the balls on this issue, and he should chalk it up as his first second term victory.

Lilly Ledbetter x 1,000

[LonePirate]

2. Reid should bring it to the floor next week to see how serious the Rs are about immigration reform

I do not believe that the bill will receive enough votes to kill the filibuster; but it will serve as an instant reminder of the hate and idiocy within the R party.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. yes, guess a win-win...if they refuse to get on board they look ridiculous if they do, we win too.

But, I can truly see how it would be a hard decision for a repuke would make. On one hand,
they need the boost with hispanics, on the other, their base is a much of racists.