Thread: Gutierrez: Hispanics saved Reid

id love to see a copy of that letter sent out by the reid campaign

check this out
http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/ ... abeth-crum

"Latino citizens responded to Majority Leader Harry Reid's aggressive pursuit of immigration reform by voting for him in overwhelming numbers," he said in a statement. "They were clearly the difference in his victory."

Latinos made up 12 percent of Nevada voters, with 90 percent of them supporting Reid. Angle got only an 8 percent sliver of their support, according to a Latino Decisions poll.

Gutierrez said Reid deserved Hispanic support for his efforts to pass immigration reform in a hostile environment.

Ha! Ha! Harry isn't going to do squat for the Hispanics, because yesterday's election stopped that. There are 23 Democrat Senators coming up for re-election in 2012. Most of them are not about to go against the will of the majority because they are already on Americans' hit list and they know they'll be ousted just like their buddies were yesterday. And Harry saw the polls. He knew he couldn't keep this promise and he was just using the Hispanics for those votes. Oh, he'll go through the motions, but an amnesty bill will go nowhere.

The total number of illegal voters is somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million nation wide. Reid probably got 100% of the illegal alien vote in Nevada.

Originally Posted by Justthatguy

The total number of illegal voters is somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million nation wide. Reid probably got 100% of the illegal alien vote in Nevada.

sorry to say, way more than that. every welfare applicant is told to register, do that math nationwide.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
By Mark Krikorian , November 4, 2010

The amnesty crowd is hawking a new fable — that a massive margin among Hispanics saved Harry Reid:

Longtime immigration advocate Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) credited Hispanics Wednesday for keeping Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the Senate.

"Latino citizens responded to Majority Leader Harry Reid's aggressive pursuit of immigration reform by voting for him in overwhelming numbers," he said in a statement. "They were clearly the difference in his victory."

Latinos made up 12 percent of Nevada voters, with 90 percent of them supporting Reid. Angle got only an 8 percent sliver of their support, according to a Latino Decisions poll.

The implication is that these numbers come from a "Latino Decisions" exit poll — an implication the authors of the poll are not in a hurry to dispel. Ben Smith at Politico, as just one example, was taken in: "Reid got an amazing 90% of the state’s 12% Hispanic voters, according to exit polls; Sharron Angle got just 8%."

Except that the Latino Decisions poll wasn't an exit poll — rather, it was an "election eve" poll, conducted before Election Day, just like all the other polling that has been going on for months. The actual exit poll, over at CNN, shows Angle getting a normal Republican share of the Hispanic vote, 30 percent.

Now, Latino Decisions claims their poll of people who haven’t voted yet is better than a poll of people who have actually, you know, voted. I’m not a statistician, and who knows, they may be right, though that would mean that Hispanics vote even more solidly Democratic than blacks, which is improbable in the extreme. But I’ll ask just this: Which poll of an ethnic group would seem more credible on its face — one conducted by a relatively disinterested news organization, or one conducted by a corporation whose very existence is based on hyping the importance of that same ethnic group, and which is paid for by the National Council of La Raza, the SEIU, and the hard-left open-borders group America's Voice?

http://oneoldvet.com/

http://www.cis.org/krikorian/election-eve-poll

Harry Reid got re-elected by illegal aliens. There needs to be an investigation immediately. There is no way Reid would have won if it werent for faulty machines and illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Why is Louis wearing an Ace bandage on his hand? Doesn't want to contract a third world disease from "his people"?

Na, his own dog probably bit him.

Blacks, Latinos stick with shrinking Democratic base The coalition that sent Barack Obama to the White House two years ago is losing whites, independents, seniors — and even women — along with regions where the party thought it had made lasting inroads.
Reporting from Washington — Democrats searching for good news amid the rubble of Tuesday's midterm election results can look to Latinos and African Americans, two groups of voters that stayed with the party in large numbers.

But that, in a sense, is like taking comfort in that fact that as your house is falling down around you, it isn't also on fire.

The Democratic Party was overwhelmingly rejected by whites, independents and seniors. Perhaps most troubling to Democrats was that increasing numbers of women also turned toward the Republican Party.

Young voters, so crucial to President Obama's historic victories two years ago, showed up in lower numbers Tuesday, and many more voted Republican than before.

To make matters worse, while black and Latino voters remained relatively loyal to the Democratic Party, they voted in far fewer numbers than in 2008. And even in those groups, 3% to 5% defected from Democrats to Republicans.

Geographically, Democrats were largely pushed out of states where the party believed it had made lasting inroads, such as Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. The result is a national electoral map that more closely resembles that of the early 2000s, with the Democrats by and large confined to the East and West coasts, with the GOP dominating the heartland and the South.

All in all, such a stunning whiplash of a reversal from two years ago suggests that neither party can claim to have a hold on the American electorate.

Voters "have the clicker in their hands and they have no problem hitting the next button," said Paul Maslin, a pollster and Democratic strategist in Wisconsin. "It's now at warp speed. You can see it in two -year cycles."

The Democratic erosion was perhaps most accentuated by the flight of women, who were among the party's most enthusiastic supporters in 2006 and 2008. According to exit poll data, women essentially split their votes evenly between Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday. The last time that happened was in 2002.

White women in particular defected from Democrats, giving their votes to Republicans by an 18-point margin. Similarly, 57% percent of married women voted for Republicans, while unmarried women — a more liberal group — turned out in smaller numbers than in 2008.

That's a dynamic Democrats must reverse if they are to hold the White House, said Page Gardner, a Democratic strategist and founder of the advocacy group Women's Voices, Women Vote. "Clearly, these guys were not speaking to these women," Gardner said. "Candidates were not; the White House was not."

Women were especially pessimistic about the economy, an issue that also undermined support for Democrats among voters in the political middle.

"It's not about turnout, or the base, or enthusiasm," said Maslin, the Democratic strategist. "We have to have a bread-and-butter economic message that convinces people to trust us again. We have to deliver."

Overall, Republicans claimed 60% of the white vote Tuesday, with seniors, an expanding part of the electorate, overwhelmingly supporting the GOP.

Meanwhile, African Americans remained one of the Democrats' most reliable voting blocs, and their turnout on Tuesday appears to have matched that in 2006, the midterm election that brought Democrats to power in the House. But there was still evidence of those voters' deflated hopes in the president and his party.

Blacks made up 13% of the electorate in 2008, but only 10% Tuesday night. While just 4% of black voters cast ballots for Republican John McCain two years ago, 9% said in exit polls that they voted for GOP House candidates on Tuesday.

Latino voters may have supplied Democrats with the biggest reason for optimism Tuesday, particularly in states where they were needed most. Although their support for Democrats declined slightly from elections in 2008 and 2006, their turnout appeared to hold steady or even increase.

Such support was likely crucial in Nevada, California and Colorado, where Democratic Senate candidates fended off strong challenges.

In Nevada, Latinos made up 15% of the electorate, and Sen. Harry Reid won 69% of their votes, according to exit polling, which experts have suggested may undercount Latino voters.

His opponent, "tea party" favorite Sharron Angle, alienated many Latinos with negative advertising and awkward comments on race. But Reid, the Senate majority leader, made a string of promise to Latino voters that Democrats in Congress may be hard-pressed to fulfill.

Reid pledged to revive comprehensive immigration revisions and push for a vote on the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow students living in the U.S. illegally to earn legal status if they graduate from high school and complete two years in college or the military.

Still, if there is one element of this week's thrashing in which Democrats can find solace, it's that history has proven voters can shift easily.

"I don't think any party is going to have a lock on elections in this country considering how closely divided our political values are," said Scott Keeter, a pollster with the Pew Research Center in Washington.

Keeter said Republicans basically won this election by the same margin Democrats did two years ago.

"In the best possible climate for Democrats, they can get 53% of the vote," he said. "In the best possible climate for Republicans, they can get 53% of the vote."

The climate at the moment favors Republicans. According to polls, the number of voters who identify themselves as conservative continues to grow, up to 41% in the most recent election, from 32% four years ago.

But that's happened before. In 1996, two years after Democrats were routed by Republicans in the 1994 midterms, 37% percent of the electorate identified themselves as conservatives. That same year, Bill Clinton was elected to a second term.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 8264.story

LUISITO IS A TRAITOR