Posted on 09/09/2014 7:48:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A nifty catch by Josh Jordan, a.k.a. NumbersMuncher. Albeit with a big caveat.
When I say “lowest level since last year” in the headline, I don’t mean to imply that O’s numbers with Latinos were lower in 2013. All I mean is that today’s Gallup chart goes back only as far as last November. (A period that includes the disastrous ObamaCare rollout, do note.) That 44 percent may well be the lowest number of his entire presidency among Latinos. I’d say odds are good, at least, that it’s the lowest since the big debt-ceiling standoff in 2011, when Obama saw some of his worst polling across the board. And it’s not just Latinos who are sour on him right now. Click and scroll left and you’ll find that he hasn’t been below 60 percent among nonwhite voters once since last November. Until now.
What could explain his cratering support among Latinos? Hmmmmm.
This year, Obama promised us action on immigration at the end of spring. Then he promised movement after the summer recess, when federal lawmakers returned to Washington. Now, he promises to take up the issue after the November elections.
Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me five times, what do you expect us to do? Obama and the Democrats who supported and encouraged him have little credibility among Latino voters. Obama may have done more to suppress the Latino vote through broken promises than any hostile action taken by the Republicans…
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Too many people either don’t get it and never will or are just blinded by handouts.
As I've said before, if the immigrants, legal or not, would agree to vote Republican, I would personally place a welcome-mat on the Rio Grande.
The really, really sad part is that 44% of Latinos either are gullible enough to buy the Dem’s BS that all Republicans are racist or are too addicted to the public teat to realize what a clown Obama is.
Time to capitalize on Cruz.....his name alone will get him votes from Latinos.
When he provides them amnesty after the elections it will go unto 100%
I suspect it is still 75 percent approval and not 44 percent.
Just like blacks' supposed 78% approval is more like 90%.
Interesting. I remember SPECIFICALLY hearing from virtually all of the Republican advisers (most of them gay, by the way), that the ONLY WAY to reach Hispanics was to support the president’s push for Amnesty. Yet, in the end, the Republicans did not.
Now this poll is on the president, but their is an implication that this is pretty much a zero-sum game. If the Republicans and the president are on opposite sides, as they are right now on Amnesty, and the president is support what the Hispanics want, which is Amnesty, at least according to the Republican advisers (most of them gay, by the way), then why isn’t the president’s support WAY UP with that group?
...and the answer is: It’s a LOT MORE complicated, but for starters, despite what the Republican advisers say (most of them gay, by the way), (legal) Hispanics do not like open borders. They know, BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE, exactly what is down there, and they want to keep it there. So the president’s policy of opening up our southern border simply BACKFIRED with them.
Ted Cruz campaigned on vigorous non amnesty message and received 38% of the Latino vote. In spite of the rino view there are a substantial numbers of Hispanics who are anti amnesty!!
Most Hispanics I come into contact with want to work hard and make a living. A platform that spoke of making it easier for small and individual business to start up and thrive, with less and simpler regulation, would resonate. So would an education platform of offering shop classes and math/business classes that prepared for that goal. So would initiatives to keep their neighborhoods safe. They don't want to be over-run by criminal elements.
Actually we conservatives have more in common with the responsible, established element in the Hispanic community than we do with what either party's establishment is offering.
The problem is that they don't seem to "get it" why we want the invaders, even those here for a long time, to go home.
Well, that’s a start. He’s the man I’m championing for. Even though it’s “early,” we really need to get behind him, pull him to the forefront.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.