Obama's secret weapon with Hispanics: Social Security?

Politico ^ | 1/30/12 | GLENN THRUSH

[ColdOne]

Fortunately for Democrats, Univision, Telemundo and other Spanish-Language media cover the immigration issue, for free, with an understandably obsessive focus; Incremental legislative developments on the Dream Act were headline news.

So, it’s likely Team Obama will spend a lot of their Spanish advertising budget on a more generic Social Security message to older Latinos, a group that has been A.) less friendly to the president than younger Spanish speakers and B.) disproportionately dependent on Social Security for retirement income.

Some stats: Three-quarters of Hispanic Social Security recipients derive half their income from their monthly check, ten points higher than the general population. Only twenty percent of Latino retirees have pensions, half the national average. And the national poverty rate for Hispanics 65 or older is 19 percent – compared to 8 percent of the white elderly.

In other words, when you factor out immigration, Hispanic voters are motivated by the same issues as other voters – only more so.

[FrankR]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Obama's secret weapon with Hispanics: Social Security?

He could share his stash of fake SS Numbers with them.

[ColdOne]

hehehe!