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Think government should be smaller, provide pure services and think the government has month responsibility to provide health insurance for all. beware of false sense of security republicans. the country is getting browner. white millennials are by no means an insurance policy since they are less conservative on key issues. not identified with the republican party and also less numerous. the same research find 50% of millennials describe themselves as independents and three in ten say they are not affiliated with my religion and the 18 to 33-year-olds a 33-year-olds are voting heavily democrat...

Held onto a number of surrounding counties. jefferson county, for instance, golden, colorado, west of denver, went to president bush by five points in 2004. arapahoe county went to bush. but by 2004, the tide had turned. he won arapahoe by 10, a 14-point swing in eight years. it's no coincidence that between 2000 and 2010 the hispanic population exploded in the denver suburbs, increase of 50%. statewide, from 17% to over 21% in 2002. of course, the split among hispanic voters, which used to be a little more even, is no longer as even between the two parties. it's not just the racial makeup of ...

Republicans, for instance. >> i was down in austin last weekend for a family event, and i turned on the television to watch the commercials, and every republican running for lieutenant governor, every republican running for attorney general, was trying to get to the right of the next one, and the republican party just racing headlong to the far right, they are not going to do well among hispanics. senator hutchison and bush were exceptions. >> let me ask you this, martin, do you believe if the republican party were in the mold of kay bailey hutchison, the democrats would have a farther way to ...

Have to do. >> look, this is a fluke. we didn't get anybody well known to run for the senate. there's a woman with a short last name, she wants to impeach the president. we're working hard, the party is working hard to make sure she's not the nominee, but look at the governor's race, we're going to have the first really well funded candidate in a long time. i think she's got a shot. it's a self fulfilling prophesy we can't win if we don't run. we have a good candidate, we have to run. >> senator, you eluded to it a minute ago about the future of the republicans, and that is, here's a state tha...

Primary. he beat you by going right. even texas, the state only wants to be center right. how does the republican party deal with this? >> first of all, we have reached out to hispanics for a long time. the republican party is friendly to hispanics, and we have strong hispanic members of the legislature, members of our county commissioners courts, we have mayors, and these are republican hispanics, so i think really texas is a model for how you bring in the hispanic population that is certainly growing, but it's not hostile to the republican party here. i carried the hispanic vote in at least ...