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12 posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 3:28:11 AM by Cincinatus’ Wife: “If you win a couple of congressional districts, you get can get as many as you would have gotten in New Hampshire just out of two congressional delegates,” Schroeder said. “So everything’s going to change in terms of how California’s campaigned to. We’ll be campaigned to like we’re several different states.” Schroeder said there are districts with only four or five thousand Republicans, such as in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. “Most of them are either Asian, African American or Hispanic. And so you’re going to see for the first time presidential candidates aggressively campaigning to Asians, blacks and Hispanics in California, because they can win significant numbers of delegates,” Schroeder said.”.....

California Republicans, pay attention to this!

This is a big, big deal.

Winning back California for the Republican Party means winning ethnic minority votes. Get your candidate to start putting together campaign material written in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Get organizers who have contacts in the local church community and ethnic businesses. Recognize that for Asians, white hair and experience definitely **DO** count.

I'm a Santorum supporter, but that's not relevant here. What **IS** relevant is that Republican candidates need to start learning how to reach ethnic minority voters, especially Asians and Hispanics, who in many cases should be Republicans but aren't.

We need to do that today in California. It won't be long before we need to do the same thing throughout the United States. White guys like me aren't increasing in numbers, and the reality is that as an Italian, a century ago I would have been considered a “dirty Dago,” a member of a despised immigrant minority.

In my county in rural Missouri where there are many Korean wives married to American soldiers, the annual Chuseok (Korean thanksgiving) celebration routinely attracts three to four hundred people, including most of the major local candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties. That kind of attendance makes Chuseok one of our county's largest festivals, and it's a voter-rich environment. The Republican Party produced campaign brochures in Korean in 2008 and widely distributed them throughout the Korean community. Our county has one of the highest percentages of Asians in the whole state of Missouri due to Fort Leonard Wood, and that should illustrate why ethnic voters are becoming important not only in California but throughout the United States.