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MidtermsLatinos Support PlanLatino voters care about the environment – they’d back the plan.Schaller 14 [Thomas, Professor of Political Science at University of Maryland, “Latino Support for Environmental Protection and Climate Change Action”, Latino Decisions, March 29, http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2014/03/29/latino-support-for-environmental-protection-and-climate-change-action/] NN Latinos care about immigration politics, of course. As an aspirational community, they also care about jobs and schools. But what may come as a surprise to those unfamiliar with the attitudes of American Latinos is how deeply concerned they are about protecting the environment. In conjunction with the National Resources Defense Council, Latino Decisions came to Washington this week to discuss a new poll revealing how concerned Latinos are about environmental protection and climate change. At a Monday, March 24 press event held in the Cannon Office Building on Capitol Hill, NRDC senior attorney and Latino Outreach Director Adrianna Quintero and Latino Decisions co-founder Matt Barreto discussed the LD poll results. Both trumpeted the fact that Latino Americans exhibit very strong support for environmental protection and, more specifically, that Latinos want government to be active in addressing environmental issues. The survey of 800 Latino registered voters reveals that more than half of Latinos want government are concerned about the challenges posed by climate change, and fully three-quarters said they believe it is “very” or “extremely” important for the government to address climate change. “These are remarkably high levels of support,” said Barreto. His comments echoed sentiments Quintero recently expressed on her NRDC blog. “We’ve seen it before and this poll again dramatically emphasizes the point,” writes Quintero. “In fact, 9 out 10 Latinos want action against climate change. That’s a compelling margin of support.” Support for climate change action is not only strong but relatively uniform: among young and old, among foreign or U.S-born, across ethnicities or countries of origin, among those with high school or college degrees. Indeed, as Barreto explained only immigration reform ranks with climate change in its level of support among Latino for government action, eclipsing issues including tax policy, gun buyer background checks and abortion policy. In term of specific preferences, more than three-quarters (78 percent) of Latinos would view members of Congress either “somewhat” or “much more” favorably were they to support a carbon tax. By similar margins, Latino registered voters favor the president taking action to curb carbon production. Perhaps most interesting—but hardly surprising—is the key motivation behind Latino attitudes: el futuro. Latino support is rooted in their desire to protect of natural resources and environmental quality for their children and future generations. GOP Needs MinoritiesGOP needs minority supportWitcover 14 (Jules, veteran american journalist, author, and columnist of Politics Today, Baltimore Star, Washington Star, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence from Society of Professional Journalists, "GOP still needs to fix its minority voter deficit", June 26, 2014, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/tms-politics-witcover-columnist,0,2181696.columnist) jml The alleged "raid" on the Republican senatorial primary in Mississippi, wherein black Democratic voters were said to have crossed over to vote for longtime incumbent Thad Cochran, has outraged his tea-party challengers. It sounds like a version of the old Dixie lament that "those people" should stay with their own kind. The real culprit is the Magnolia State itself, for holding an open primary law that allows voters to participate in a runoff regardless of party. And it's another reminder of the basic Republican problem of being branded as hostile or just unaccommodating to minority voters and their interests. The Cochran strategists are being credited with having beaten the bushes in heavy African-American precincts to boost turnout. But the power of minority participation was already demonstrated in the 2012 presidential election, wherein Mitt Romney was buried by black, Hispanic and other minority votes. Establishment Republicans of Cochran's ilk are rejoicing over what they see as another stake in the heart of the tea party, somewhat countering its shocking success in ousting House Minority Leader Eric Cantor in his Virginia primary. Yet the intramural GOP fight will go on in November's midterm congressional elections and the 2016 battle for the presidency. In all this, the Grand Old Party takes considerable solace in the current distress of President Obama, whose popularity has fallen to 41 percent in latest polls, despite the fact that Republicans in Congress are rated even lower. But as they bask in Obama's slippage, they have a glaring dilemma of their own. Two years from the next presidential election, they have no obvious nominee in sight. The political cupboard is so bare that Texas Gov. Rick "Oops" Perry appears to be suiting up for another bid, as does another also-ran, Rick Santorum. This is happening in a party that traditionally has had its next nominee waiting in the wings for "my turn." In the past, patient party leaders have gone at least once around the presidential track or have bided their time, recognizing that loyalty can be rewarded. Losers Richard Nixon, George Bush Sr., Bob Dole and John McCain all eventually won the GOP presidential nomination, their boosters arguing it was owed to them. Looking at the current potential roster for 2016, no likely heir apparent jumps out other than former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who would be a first-time presidential aspirant, or perhaps Rep. Paul Ryan, the 2012 losing vice-presidential nominee. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has the look, in racetrack terminology, of an early pacesetter but is still generally regarded a libertarian outsider. The current crop of Republican governors offers more ambition than public recognition, with the exception of New Jersey's Chris Christie, whose initial high profile has been tarnished by that bridge backup fiasco that smacks of both incompetence and stupidity. Neither quality has been known as a recommendation for national office. In light of the internal split between the tea-party insurgents and old establishment party figures like Cochran, McCain, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, what's lacking, alas, is a political star of the magnetism of Ronald Reagan. Casting about among the other potential stars, only former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be appear to have the stature right now to generate the needed national support for a presidential campaign. But Bloomberg is a one-time Democrat who ran as a Republican to get on the ballot in New York and then declared himself an Independent. Generally regarded as a liberal in his conspicuous leadership of a national campaign against gun violence, he would be a fish out of water as the GOP presidential nominee. Whichever White House aspirant manages to emerge from the current fog will need more of that same minority voter support that was Romney's undoing -- and appears to have been Cochran's salvation in Mississippi -- to reach the Oval Office in 2017. And so, for all of the GOP's high expectations for taking control of Congress this fall and the presidency beyond, breaking the minority-vote barrier remains a critical challenge. 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