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I am relieved it wasn't Marco Rubio [a post I had embargoed until after Romney made his pick]
Yes Rubio has the baggage, but he still scared me because he would have been the first Hispanic nominee for a national office, thereby giving the GOP some insulation from otherwise very true charges that their party has become anti-immigrant.
It would have been that much harder to win Florida.
The hard won gains Democrats have achieved with younger Cubans in Florida could be lost.
Obama's massive support from Mexican-Americans could drop down to the level of an unimpressive majority, as in John Kerry levels from 2004.
I feared that the national news media would have absolutely gone goo-goo, gah-gah over him for months and months.