Mitt Romney didn't win any favors from the GOP Platform Committee, which earlier this week installed a plank calling for the backing of Arizona-style state immigration laws, adding that such laws should be "encouraged, not attacked," and calling on the feds to drop its lawsuits against such bills.
According to the Washington D.C. based newspaper The Hill, representatives for the presumptive GOP nominee said he is looking to bank 38 percent of the Latino vote to be competitive in the general election. That's up substantially from the 31 percent John McCain garnered four years ago, and is just shy of the 40 percent that George W. Bush garnered in his successful bid for re-election in 2004.
He better start working it.
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo Poll released on Wednesday shows Romney attracting just 30 percent of Latino votes, compared to President Obama's 65 percent rating.
