FILE - In this July 8, 2008 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., addresses the Annual League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Convention in Washington. Having lost the popular vote in five of six presidential elections, Republicans are plunging into intense self-examination. Hard-core conservatives say the party should abandon comparative centrists like John McCain and Mitt Romney. But establishment Republicans note the party still runs the House and President Obama?s popular-vote margin was smaller than before. Perhaps the GOP?s biggest challenge: improving relations with America's fast-growing Hispanics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
FILE - In this July 8, 2008 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., addresses the Annual League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Convention in Washington. Having lost the popular vote in five of six presidential elections, Republicans are plunging into intense self-examination. Hard-core conservatives say the party should abandon comparative centrists like John McCain and Mitt Romney. But establishment Republicans note the party still runs the House and President Obama?s popular-vote margin was smaller than before. Perhaps the GOP?s biggest challenge: improving relations with America's fast-growing Hispanics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
FILE - In this Sept 17, 2012 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. Having lost the popular vote in five of six presidential elections, Republicans are plunging into intense self-examination. Hard-core conservatives say the party should abandon comparative centrists like John McCain and Mitt Romney. But establishment Republicans note the party still runs the House and President Obama?s popular-vote margin was smaller than before. Perhaps the GOP?s biggest challenge: improving relations with America's fast-growing Hispanics. (AP Photo/David McNew, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans are plunging into an intense period of self-examination, blame-setting and testy debate over whether their party needs serious change or just some minor tweaks.
The postelection fallout will help determine whether the GOP might regain the success it enjoyed in the 1980s. Some fear that instead it will suffer even deeper losses as the nation's Democratic-leaning Hispanics increase in number.
Some hard-core conservatives called on party leaders Wednesday to resign in the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election.
Establishment Republicans largely shrugged off the tirades. But they differed on whether the party should hold its course or shift to the political middle.
GOP congressional leaders showed few signs of offering new compromises to Democrats right away.
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