Even within the GOP, pressure is building on Romney to soften his immigration position. As the Democrats were parading outside the Capitol’s East Front on Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a possible Romney vice presidential pick, announced that he wanted to find a way to allow the foreign-born children of illegal immigrants to remain legally in the United States.

But rather than embrace Rubio’s olive branch (he is, after all, taking a position at odds with many in his party), the lawmakers, all from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, derided him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”…

Gutierrez spoke of an “electrical” map through Latino neighborhoods. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), also reaching for electoral, spoke of “this electrical season.” All the talk of electricity took Rep. Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.) back to a time before it was universal: “They have to make sure that this cycle, in 1912, we elect a . . . Congress that will restore their dream.”