Turistnäringens Investerarindex 2011

That group’s authority

the president’s majority shrank nationally, he won a larger proportion of Latino and Asian votes

than in 2008. Among Latinos, Mr. Romney’s share of the vote fell 17 percentage points below

the 44 percent won by George W. Bush in 2004. Perhaps most ominous, the Latino share of the

total vote rose to 10 percent from 8 percent in 2004, and the Asian share rose to 3

percent from 2 percent. The electorate is now 28 percent nonwhite, more than double the figure

from two decades ago. That growth is certain to continue; in 2011, births to nonwhites

outnumbered births to whites for the first time. After three days of haggling at a luxury hotel here,

opposition negotiators agreed to the new coalition and then elected as its president Sheikh Ahmad

Moaz al-Khatib, a former imam of the historic Umayyad mosque in Damascus and a respected national

figure within Syria. “Today in Doha is the first time the different factions of the Syrian

opposition are united in one body,” said Riyad Farid Hijab, a former Syrian prime minister and

the highest-level defector from the Damascus government. “So we ask the international

community to recognize the Syrian opposition as the representative of the

Syrians. The umbrella organization was designed to subsume the Syrian National Council, a

previous attempt at unification that has appeared increasingly marginalized as Syria

has descended into civil war. That group’s authority was undercut when it failed to attract

sufficient support from key minorities, religious and tribal figures, businessmen, and, most

important, rebel units conducting the fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. The

hope among Western countries is that the new coalition, called the National Coalition of

Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, can give local opposition councils the

legitimacy to bring fighters under their

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