Editor's note: Republican Leslie Sanchez was director of the White House Initiative on Hispanic Education from 2001 to 2003 and author of "Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other." She is CEO of the Impacto Group, which specializes in market research about women and Hispanics. Leslie Sanchez says Republicans should treat Hispanics as part of the mainstream of America. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the members of the Republican National Committee prepare to choose a party chairman to serve for the next two years, the calls for new "Hispanic outreach" initiatives are flying -- in my view, unnecessarily. It is probably true that President Obama's election marks the beginning of a post-partisan, post-racial America, or at least a time when these issues are less divisive than in years past.
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Leslie Sanchez: Republicans are talking about a new outreach to Hispanics
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She says Hispanics are part of the American mainstream with broad interests
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Sanchez: Candidates, including Obama, talked about narrow issues
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She says Hispanics want to be seen as Americans, with a stake in the future
What Hispanics want, and what we as @placeholder want them to want, is to be included in the American experience.