A Sunday NBC News story surveying Republicans’ failures to make gains with Latino voters in the Southwest includes a pretty funny anecdote underscoring the low-energy effort on the ground.
A reporter made five visits to a “community outreach center” in a Latino neighborhood in Las Vegas, all at different times of the day, each time finding the place locked and empty. Finally on the sixth visit, the reporter found a single staffer there with a puppy who promptly “had an accident on the floor,” and that the staffer “appeared startled by a visitor.” The staffer then told the reporter to visit another “community outreach” location, at which another staffer gave the reporter a party official’s phone number. The official did not return a call requesting comment.
“I think the engagement that we’re seeing with Hispanic and Asian voters in Clark County is going to be a difference maker,” the story then quotes RNC Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel as saying before the midterm elections, plainly to emphasize how yet again she was full of shit.