Posted on 10/09/2008 7:09:23 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
Despite championing immigration reform in 2007, John McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin that is well below President George W. Bush's 2004 performance.
Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters of any Democrat in a decade, while McCain is struggling to reach 30 percent, closer to Senator Bob Dole's dismal 1996 result than to Bush's historic 40% four years ago.
McCain seems to have wound up with the worst of both worlds: He appears to be getting no credit from Latino voters for his past support for immigration reform, while carrying the baggage of other Republicans' hostility to illegal immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Just another reason why he never should have supported it to begin with. Stabbed in the back, but many of us could have called that.
What happened to Rove’s theories?
Why? After all, he wants to keep them here. :-(
Can someone explain to me again how flooding the country with left-leaning voters from Mexico will help the Republican party?
It’s a sad truth but a truth nonetheless, like blacks, latinos also tend to support the candidate most likely to provide handouts and ask nothing in return. Perhaps not in numbers equal to blacks, but still in an overwhelming majority.
“...carrying the baggage of other Republicans’ hostility to illegal immigration.”
They don’t get it.
What part of “illegal” is so damn difficult to understand. And these illegal aliens, here without documentation, are NOT immigrants. They are criminals because they came here illegally.
Better invite a few million more and hope they change their mind.
This won't stop McCain from trying...
Do you work for the leftist organization politico?
They obviously did not poll the Florida Cuban population.
This is by the Politico. McCain had the La Raza guy speak at the convention.
It can’t help the republicans. Isn’t it ironic that McCain’s undoing may come from the one ethnic group that he courted so hard that it damaged him with the base of his party? That is the reward one gets when they sell their soul for political gain.
I’ve been waiting for something like this to show up. If things were great for 0bama with Hispanics, why would something like this show up? My guess is that you might also see a Bradly-like effect among Hispanics. We have to wait an see, but I always thought that the moment you see something like this, problems are on the horizon for 0bama.
I am still waiting for the Rove indictment that Politico announced two years ago ????
Hispanic men will not vote for Obama
Ok I am a Hispanic. Most Hispanics vote democrat...not only because of welfare, but also because the Republican party has never welcomed or sought after their votes....
Heck half of the Republican party cant understand their are such a thing as a LEGAL MEXICAN!
SOMETIMES I AM VERY INSULTED BY MY OWN PARTY!
I SPEAK SPANISH, NOT ONCE HAVE I GONE TO A PHONE BANK WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS INTERESTED IN THE LATINO VOTE.
WHY WOULD YOU EVER GO TO SOMEONES HOUSE, WHEN YOU DONT FEEL WELCOMED?
LOL
What is that? About .5% of the hispanic population?
Just another reason why he never should have supported it to begin with. Stabbed in the back, but many of us could have called that.
Right. There’s no point in catering to them or any other minorities. Close the border, close down Acorn. If you bend over and let them do anything they want, they just f#@k you, treat you with contempt, and walk away. We don’t need that, and we don’t need them.
Tell us what the GOP could do to entice the hispanics to vote GOP?
Not all of us are interested in race politics. It’s stupid to seek divisions in a nation wove together by many. You can be an American or you can be whatever else you want to be but you can’t be both.
I’m of german heritage, when was the last time you heard us whine about a party not pandering to us?
If they are 'legal', are they still Mexican? You are welcome, now English if you please....
Maybe if McCain was a little more “bi-partisan” or “reached across the aisle” more often. ~sarc
Maybe now’s a good time to take it all back and win some conservatives! “Build the wall and ship all illegals out asap”! It would work for me!!
So Hispanics will be voting like they always have?
Well John may get a chance to think about that in the first 120 days of his retirement.
Please God, he will retire if he loses won’t he?
Strange as it may seem to those biased reporters out there, if John McCain would sincerely revoke his part in McCain/Kennedy and insist in securing our borders, he would gain far more American votes, Caucasian and Mexican, than he would lose from La Raza votes, imo.
It is conservatism that must be presented to Hispanics. When you show them what conservatism is and what it stands for, Hispanics will realize that their values are conservative values and not liberal. I should know, I am a Hispanic and a conservative.
And if you go to a phone bank, don’t wait for them to give you a Hispanic list, ask for one. If none is available, go door-to-door in Hispanic neighborhoods. Be proactive about it. Every time I talk with other Hispanics, I try to speak about my values and show them how conservative their values truly are.
Conservatives are at disadvantage, since most Hispanics get their news from liberal sources, not to mention education.
But the key is to engage them and show them that conservatism is the way out of poverty. Instead of waiting for a handout, work for it. We are a proud people, but handouts breed laziness, which leads to dependency, ending at liberalism. We have to break this cycle!
Strange as it may seem to those biased reporters out there, if John McCain would sincerely revoke his part in McCain/Kennedy and insist in securing our borders, he would gain far more American votes, Caucasian and Mexican, than he would lose from leftist La Raza votes, imo.
Sort of puts republicans in a bind - either they can lockstep endorse illegal immigration or lose the Hispanic vote.
Better to vote for your economic and political self interest than to vote to encourage others to break the nation's laws. The other approach is to vote for all the handouts possible, which is the viewpoint the Democrats are encouraging.
ROTFL----that's a good one, alright. Now how bout this?
Five Million Fraudulent Mortgages Held by Illegals -----
As TADSLOS posted This is the mortgage loan crisis hidden story coming to light. This is why Bush and McCain had that glazed over, defeated look in their eyes urging the bailout bill being passed. They have been hoisted on their own shamnesty petards.
N-i-c-e take, eh? Sucking up to latinos allowed the US economy to go down the drain. This is a crime of massive proportions. Candidate McC's trying to distance himself from Bush but the two of them look like ignorant dupes of amnesty hustlers. The two *******s got suckered into undermining US law-----and ended up destroying the US economy----sucking up to Third World con artists.
$50 BILLION was being taken out of our economy every year, transferred to Mexico.....but the two idiots still did not "get it."
Outrageously, they ignored the pleas of taxpayers and the reasoned arguments against amnesty. Now we are paying the price for their monumental stupidity.
Wait till the facts emerge that illegals drained our treasury using multiple identities to collect EITC, Soc/Sec. Workmen's Comp, SSI, welfare, food stamps, free health care, free schooling, housing allowances, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum. welfare.
The invaders shut down numerous hospitals, sued everything in sight, overburdened our justice system committing viscious crimes, and made big bucks selling drugs to American youth.
Now they'll retire in luxury to beachfront condos with multiple US govt checks rolling in. Even when they go back, US checks will be blanketing the Third World til doomsday. Plus Latino federales are salivating over the massive transfer of US wealth via a jet-propelled federal assembly line HEADED STRAIGHT INTO THEIR POCKETS.
BTW, Did McC torpedo Juan Hernandez yet (/sarc)? McC needs to send this SOB Hernandez packing, subito.
First off I would never be able to speak to them. I don't speak spanish. Second, the only hispanic neighborhoods I know of I would NOT be welcomed.
Could not be happening to a more deserving guy (snicker).
Unfortunately, that seems to be the norm for most Hispanic neighborhoods. And you’re right, if you don’t know spanish you would be wasting your time. But I’ll keep trying.
If you believe Politico then every group has turned on McCain, the GOP is dead and none of should bother showing up to vote on Nov 4th. It’s Politico, remember?
And here on immigration he is being whacked from both sides as well - Well, Mr. McCain.....This sucks, for our great Nation.
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N-i-c-e take.
America is built on one nation, indivisible. I for one am sick and tired of these professional hyphenates. They calculatedly seek to divide and conquer......they refuse to assimilate into the melting pot.
Hyphenates want special privileges and perks, and they want the rest of us to subsidize them.
No thank you. I say act like an American, or GTH out of my country.
Don't feel alone. Conservatives often feel the same way.
Heaven forbid!!!! What a revolting development.
If McCain/Palin win, we need to march on one newspaper at a time until they close their doors. I’m sick of this and I’m not going to take it anymore.
Hoisted on his own petard, and taking us down with him.
Latinos do have a Christian orientation in general and do not like the rabid abortion stance of the Democrat Party. The fact is that many Latinos are here, many are legally here and have lived in this country all their lives, many are here illegally. There is no way that they can all be rounded up and deported. If we could help them understand that we aren’t against legal immigration; if their own families that are here and who are harboring them would just encourage and help them go back and return by legal channels it would be easier on them as well as on the authorities.
Be sure that if BO is elected, he will do everything in his power to assure that the Latino voting bloc, like the black voting bloc is Democrat for a hundred years or more. The Democrat Party gains control of people by appealing to their baser attributes rather than in building up their talents and incentive. - I love everyone and wish for everybody to have good, to have good paying jobs and education. I don’t relish anyone’s adult child dying of thirst and dehydration in the desert trying to come here to work (and they do work) and earn a living. Our ancestors were mostly immigrants at one time, too. There are criminals and bad people in every race and group of people, and there are many decent Latino people.
This sounds like another bullshit poll to me.All of freerepublic is full of polls saying how bad we are doing.
I thought blacks didn’t like latinos and now all of a sudden they love them.This is a big push to make us believe we are losing,Sounds like bullshit to me.
This sounds like another bullshit poll to me.All of freerepublic is full of polls saying how bad we are doing.
I thought blacks didn’t like latinos and now all of a sudden they love them.This is a big push to make us believe we are losing,Sounds like bullshit to me.
This insanity presages the Third World hellholes they envision being erected on US soil. Illegals are receiving orders from Third World federales to takeback the SW (reconquista) by undermining the US election system.
Illiterate natives are way out of their element here.... attempting to circumnavigate a worldclass superpower, like America. The stupid invaders are ill-equipped to exist under US democracy--within a worldclass superpower which operates under the rule of law.
Only problem is that vote-crazed politicians are mesmerized by the numbers, and are sucking up to illegals like there was no tomorrow. Pandering pols will never "get it."
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