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"California Republicans met at the Sacramento Convention Center to elect new party leaders in the wake of losses in 2012.Karl Rove told a packed house in the Hyatt Regency Ballroom on Saturday that the state party needs to work harder.\"My message is this: get off your (expletive).\u00A0 Get back in the game and fight.\u00A0 Don't give in to what the other side wants,\" Rove said.Rove, a former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, said he helped turn the tide in Texas by promoting candidates of diverse backgrounds.\"You know what?\u00A0 On our ticket, white men were the minority.\u00A0 The majority of our ticket were African-Americans and Latinos and women,\" Rove said.Ruben Barrales,\u00A0 former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, expects the Latino population to outnumber Caucasians in California before the end of the year.\"Republicans may not need to capture the majority of Latino votes, but we must do significantly better than we have in past elections,\" Barrales said.Marcelino Valdez was elected as Central Valley regional vice-chair of the party.\u00A0 He said the party needs to reach out to Latino voters and emphasize how the party would represent their interests.\"The Hispanic vote is a big voting block that we have to do a better job of reaching out (to), and I think we can't neglect other parts of our community,\" Valdez said.Democratic strategist Bob Mulholland doesn't think the strategy will work to win seats.\"I think the Republican party is having a lot of discussions about how they should wear a new dress but deep down most voters, particularly the minorities, know how the Republicans think and how they are hostile to their policies.\"Outgoing party chairman Tom Del Beccaro said the party needs to focus more on communicating with voters.\u201CWhat Republicans need to do is build stronger relationships with voters so that when it comes time to vote they will listen to Republicans,\u201D Del Beccaro said.The state party is scheduled to elect a new chairman Sunday."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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