Will Arizona’s Tough Immigration Law Fuel Hispanic Turnout for Democrats? (SEIU/LaRaza Poll quoted)

Newsweek ^ | May 20, 2010 | Arian Campo-Flores

[2ndDivisionVet]

legal status, Hispanics nationwide are fired up. Thousands of protesters converged at the Arizona capitol in Phoenix to denounce the measure in April. Rallies on May 1 drew tens of thousands more into the streets of 70 cities across the country. Earlier this week, student activists staged a sit-in at Sen. John McCain's Tucson office to condemn his support of the law. City leaders (not all of them Latino) from San Diego to St. Paul, Minn., declared boycotts against Arizona.

Does this mean Hispanics are poised to storm the ballot boxes this November? Not necessarily. In a poll taken prior to the passage of the Arizona law, a survey by Latino Decisions found Hispanic political engagement "at an all-time low," according to Gary Segura, a member of the polling firm. Only 49 percent of Hispanic registered voters were very enthusiastic about voting in the coming November elections, compared with 89 percent in September 2006, during the last midterm cycle. (A February survey of four states by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, on the other hand, showed that between 74 and 80 percent of African-Americans said they were very likely to vote in November.)

Segura ascribed the decline among Latinos to an overall deflation of the hype surrounding President Barack Obama's election and a specific disenchantment with the administration's unfulfilled promise to take up immigration reform. (In an appearance with Mexican President Felipe Calderón on Wednesday, Obama reiterated his commitment to an immigration overhaul and called the Arizona measure "misdirected" and "troublesome.") In the aftermath of the Arizona law, not much has changed. A new Latino Decisions survey, conducted earlier this month for the National Council of La Raza and the Service Employees International Union, shows that only 45 percent of Arizona Hispanics are very enthusiastic about voting...(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm sure the RINOs are worried.

[cripplecreek]

Then maybe those RINOs should get to work on a way to make sure that only legal voters vote.

[Deagle]

I actually think that it just may have the opposite effect.

[presently no screen name]

Perfect! Let them do what they should have been doing all along.

[Tzimisce]

Why show up at the polls: Politicians are already playing to them.

[McGavin999]

The problem for democrats is that most Arizona hispanics (the legal ones) are on the side of the Arizona law. These are good people who have respect for the law and they hate what is being done to their state.

[ElkGroveDan]

Dream On

[Cyman]

I agree. I am reminded of the WW II comment about “waking a sleeping giant”

[AmericanInTokyo]

Any man who cares not about the Immigration Laws of a nation, and lives in a country illegally, will likewise think NOTHING about that same country's domestic election laws which forbid foreigners from voting in its elections.

It is a moral issue.I don't care how "hard these simple people work daily", these are patently, endemically immoral people and LIARS, numbering into the sheer tens of millions now on US soil, saying "Hell NO, we will NOT go! Make us!"

There will be MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD in 2010 with illegal alien supporters signing up illegal voters in DROVES, and the Justice Department, which will have a conflict of interest because it will want Democrat rule continued, will look the other way and allow it to happen and violate our Constitution. Take that to the Banco de Londres y Mexico.

[JSteff]

They need to just rewrite the law. Make it very fair.

Change the law to be the usual set of American requirements for immigration and citizenship. The second part of the law would be all the immigration and citizenship requirements of the country immigrated from... as if they were immigrating back in there.

Absolutely fair and the U.S. part really easy.

[Gator113]

NOTICE: Effective immediately.
Nationwide roundup is scheduled for the week prior to and after all election days.

Spread the word....

[Bad~Rodeo]

Segura ascribed the decline among Latinos to an overall deflation of the hype surrounding President Barack Obama's election and a specific disenchantment with the administration's unfulfilled promise to take up immigration reform.

5 will get you 10 that Obama BROUGHT Calderon to Washington to help bolster the hispanic vote. F'ing dog and pony show

[2ndDivisionVet]

They looked the other way on obvious, provable voter intimidation by the Black Panthers in Philadelphia. What’s to stop them from quashing any investigation into ACORN-style voter fraud in multiple states?

[Just mythoughts]

So Republicans then introduce Mexican Immigration law as our own...

[sappy]

Get a van or bus with ICE painted on it and park it in front of every polling place.

[Niteflyr]

With over 70% of Arizona’ns in support of the new law....and I’d assume there is a pretty large Hispanic legal population ...I don’t think assuming Hispanics will vote as a Dem block is a sure bet.

[Deagle]

Excuse me! The law mirrors federal law! What could be better? It just allows the State to enforce Federal law.

Just how can that be improved?

[4rcane]

only if you think all hispanic vote the same way. Not all hispanic are suicidal socialists

[Deagle]

Oh, and the law has nothing to do with legal immigration - it is about BREAKING the law!

States are not allowed to set citizenship laws - that is a Federal solution - kind of like the Federal law that Arizona mirrors, breaking the law. They can not allow illegals to be citizens of Arizona - that is a Federal proposition.

Geez, get a clue...

[pnh102]

As if the Hispanics were gonna vote for the GOP to begin with?

With a large underclass that is dependent on government handouts and is responsible for a large percentage of crime I don't think they are exactly a reliable GOP voting bloc.