Thursday, November 15, 2012
Pew study says Latino voter numbers likely to spike in Illinois
IL Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-4CD) is ramping up his push for comprehensive immigration reform in Barack Obama’s second term as president.
“There is pressure on Republicans to change their tune but there is also pressure on Democrats to deliver,” Gutierrez said on an NPR interview this week. “Latino voters put a lot of faith in President Obama and he has another four years because of that faith. But now he has to exert the muscle needed to forge the coalition of mostly Democrats and a few Republicans to get a bill passed and implemented.”
Along with Gutierrez push, a new Pew study indicates that in just one generation, the nation’s Latino vote will skyrocket to 40 million. Illinois is one of the states which will add to the annual combined number of 800,000 new Latino voters:
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/
This is one of the reasons Illinois is so far gone.
The entire state has gradually been transformed into Chicago-and will probably get much worse in the years ahead.