Monday, October 24, 2011

Surprise! The Tea Party Is Making the GOP More Diverse

Kevin Brennan & Sean Sullivan:

?Despite some of the caricatures that are out there, Republican primary voters are color-blind,? said Alberto Martinez, an early Rubio backer. ?They care about issues.?

If tea party voters don?t regard race as a factor in their electoral decisions, it?s not because the movement itself is racially diverse; many minority voters recoil from the tea party?s emphasis on shrinking government. According to a CBS News poll taken last October, 93 percent of self-identified tea party supporters were white. But that doesn?t mean they are unwilling to elect minority candidates who share their values.

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Precisely what I and others have been saying all along.

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October 22, 2011 - Posted by Tim | Uncategorized

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