(Editor’s Note: As the end of 2013 approaches, the Washington Examiner is shining a spotlight on its best columns of the year. Today, it’s chief political correspondent Byron York writing about whether winning over Hispanic voters would help the Republican Party win the White House in 2016. This column first ran on May 2 and can be found in its original form here.)

After six months of mulling over November’s election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party’s only path to future victory is to improve the GOP’s appeal to Hispanic voters. But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need to attract before the party can again win the White House?