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Bettina Inclan has quite the task in her first election as the Republican National Committee's Director of Hispanic Outreach — making inroads with a demographic that has traditionally shunned the Republican Party. In 1980, Ronald Reagan told top adviser for Hispanic outreach Lionel Sosa that he would have an easy job. Here's what happened in the 1980 election, according to exit polls from the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut: And here's what happened in the 2008 election with Barack Obama and John McCain: So, not much has changed.
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In a sweeping autopsy of the 2012 election released this morning, the Republican National Committee concedes that the GOP is "scary" and "out of touch" with voters, and needs to fix its messaging, outreach, and general campaign mech... Read Post

Exit polls from Tuesday's election showed Republican nominee Mitt Romney made inroads with youth voters in the 2012 election — but the right-leaning youth voter outreach group Generation Opportunity thinks he could have done more. A... Read Post

Thirty-two years ago, as Ronald Reagan built his campaign for a presidential run, he told a top adviser to expect an easy job. "Latinos are Republican," he told Lionel Sosa, the man who would lead his outreach effort. "They just don... Read Post