Pivoting off of Maggie Haberman’s reporting, Ben Smith explains why Romney’s sinister attack on Perry’s immigration record is so politically risky for the GOP in the long-run:
I participated in a panel on the topic of the Hispanic vote … and was struck by two items in the remarks by the pollsters and Latino politics on the panel: That immigration isn’t the top issue for Hispanic voters (“I don’t care about immigration,” Univision executive Chiqui Cartagena announced), and that Hispanic voters are intensely sensitive to rhetoric — more, in the view of some, than policy — that comes off as bigoted or as playing to bigots.
Don’t worry. He’s faking it. He’ll be learning Spanish soon enough.
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