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05-18-2009, 11:35 AM #1
GOP sounds alarm on Latino voter gap
GOP sounds alarm on Latino voter gap
POLITICO.COM
By BEN SMITH
5/18/09 4:35 AM EDT
The Republican Party has scarcely begun to repair a wound that threatens to confine it to minority status: its 2006 collapse among Hispanic voters.
Driven by some Republicans’ sharp attacks on illegal immigration and — as many Hispanics perceived it, immigrants in general — Latino voters fled the GOP en masse in the midterm elections, then turned on John McCain, as well.
He got 31 percent of the Latino vote to the 44 percent that George W. Bush took in 2004, according to exit polls. And it was enough to put much of the West and Southwest out of reach for the Republican Party, to give Florida to the Democrats and to hand Barack Obama the presidency.
Now, as Obama moves to solidify his advantage, Republican leaders are sounding the alarm on what could be the party’s most pressing national challenge.
“It’s absolutely urgent. The demographics are there in black and white,â€
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05-18-2009, 11:47 AM #2
HAAAAAAAA
They have completely alienated a majority of the white voting block. They had better figure out a way to get them back as well. I am certainly not voting for a cheesehead neo-con like McCain (aka Bushlite)
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05-18-2009, 12:20 PM #3
as long as the Hispanic label (more special ethnic group) is present it will always be a loser for Republicans. They way to defeat this democratic trojan horse is to destry teh horse meaning blow up the label and appeal to the man or woman of Hispanic descent and bring them back into teh fold as "mainstream" Americans by appealing to them on issues that united Americans and not on what divides them like illegal immigration.. That's how you get them back or soem of them. Hispanics are no different than any racial or ethnic group. Republicans needs to stop obssessing about it and give democrats a run for their money
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05-18-2009, 12:49 PM #4He got 31 percent of the Latino vote to the 44 percent that George W. Bush took in 2004, according to exit polls. And it was enough to put much of the West and Southwest out of reach for the Republican Party, to give Florida to the Democrats and to hand Barack Obama the presidency.The flag flies at half-mast out of grief for the death of my beautiful, formerly-free America. May God have mercy on your souls.
RIP USA 7/4/1776 - 11/04/2008
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05-18-2009, 01:18 PM #5
Remember when the Clintons and Gore strong armed the INS into hurrying the processing of immigrants coming across the border? These quickly “processedâ€
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05-18-2009, 01:34 PM #6They have completely alienated a majority of the white voting block. They had better figure out a way to get them back as well. I am certainly not voting for a cheesehead neo-con like McCain (aka Bushlite)
They need to take the high road and go by philosophy and the Constitution and rules of law and not targeting ethnic groups as potential voters. It goes against everything we have worked for. Outside of making illegal aliens legal, and making Spanish a mandated 2nd language for everyone, and holding jobs for them and giving them oppertunities others aren't guarenteed, what makes them any more special or different than any other group? Poor hispanics somehow suffer differently than poor of any other group? Hispanic women birth babies so totally differently from any other woman on this planet that they require "special" hospitals just for them? Latino elderly are different than elderly of any other group? Latino children deserve more than any other group of children? Based on nothing but what color they are or what country they from? I don't think so. Taling from one group and giving it to another isn't addressing the issues. We're all either on the same page or we're not.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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05-18-2009, 01:54 PM #7Conservatives will be out numbered and out voted
I don't believe conservative views are all that restrictive, so far it appears to be more tolerant of others than any other group. It's not Christians trying to silence Muslims. They are just asking not to be silenced in the process of allowing them their freedoms. It's not the whites saying no blacks or hispanics allowed to be hired, they are just asking not to be ousted out of the picture because they are white. No one is saying, don't allow any Mexicans into this country because we don't like Mexicans, they are asking that they come legally and obey our laws and assimilate into this culture, just like every other group has had to do. It's not Conservative TV and radio trying to run the liberal agenda out of existance, they just want the same freedoms the others have.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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