Newt is misreading Florida (a danger of an amateur candidacy)
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Watching Newt (in Florida debate) trying to tar Romney as anti-immigrant is a real lesson in not knowing what the hell is going on. It's like Newt read on a fortune cookie the fact that there are a lot of hispanics in the Florida Republican party and just went with it.
He is running ads accusing Romney of being tough on immigration (On Spanish language radio? I don't know) and it's an issue in the debate.
The Republican party in Florida is some Cubans, a few rich folks and millions of the most shocking rednecks you'll ever hope to see.
Republican Cubans do not care much about whether we fence the border or who we deport because they are a special legal category. They are largely unaffected by our general immigration policies. If a Cuban can set foot on the beach they are welcome here. Period. (Floridian Cubans may actually be anti-immigrant on average.)
And there is no reason to think that the millions of rednecks in a very, very bad economy are wild about all the other immigrants in Florida—particularly Haitians, Dominicans and and central Americans.
So Romney handed Newt his ass on the topic. It was the first big ovation I've ever seen for Romney.
Plus, doesn't Gingrich know that Arizona and Michigan are the same day? Romney will win Michigan and Newt HAS to win Arizona, and his bizarre friend of immigrants act won't play there.
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