Will it work? by Barbora Misakova

Politics is about changing your mind and opinions but in a way that no one will notice it. In case that someone anyway finds out you have changed it, you must be persuasive that it was meant to be like this, that changing your mind was in favor of voters not you as politician. US Republicans, often portrayed as the party of old, white men, have weak support among African-American and Latino voters. Their hostility toward immigration cannot be hidden behind those few elected officials of color. But when Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee in 2009 and a year later voter themselves have selected several Republican cand! idates of color to represent the party in November elections of US senators, representatives and state governors, a new question arose: is it a new party or just a new strategy? A New York Times considered a surge of African-American Republican candidates as an unexpected “reverberation” of Barack Obama’s election. But Republican Party is still a heavily white party which had only 11 percent of non-white Republicans in 2009 what is nothing in comparison with 36 percent of Democrats. That’s why another explanation crop out: Republican leaders are aware of shifting American demographics and evolving attitudes toward race. As John Fortier, political scientist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute aptly said: “The country is getting more diverse, so the Republican Party will have to attract a greater shape of minority support to be competitive in elections.” One question still remains: will be this new strategy working?

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