Republicans think religion could help them woo Hispanics. They’re wrong.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/05/07/republicans-think-religion-could-help-them-woo-hispanics-theyre-wrong/

BY AARON BLAKE
May 7 at 12:47 pm

The Republican Party continues to lose the Hispanic vote in ever-increasing numbers. After George W. Bush won upwards of 40 percent of Latinos in 2004, Mitt Romney took just 27 percent of them in 2012.

This trend is especially frustrating for GOP leaders who — rightly — point out that Hispanics are actually pretty religious and socially conservative. This, they argue, should draw more Hispanics toward the GOP.

But this analysis also misses some vital points. And in their quest to woo Latinos, Republicans really shouldn't count on religiosity to move the needle in their favor, for a few reasons:

1) Latinos are leaving church — fast

According to a new report from the Pew Religion and Public Life Project, 18 percent of Hispanics identify as "unaffiliated." That might not seem like a lot, but that number has almost doubled in the past three years alone, from 10 percent in 2010.

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1. The GOP wants to win them with appeals to religion all the while

opposing immigration reform?

Latinos are nowhere near conservative as the fundies are.

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2. Well, see they are a simple people, you know.

Some of them don't even talk good english.

They can't be expected to understand complicated issues like immigration.