DNC ad aims to turn out Hispanic voters

thehill.com ^ | September 25, 2014 | Mario Trujillo

[Tailgunner Joe]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is telling Hispanic voters they “can’t stay at home” during the midterm elections in a new Spanish-language radio ad seeking to boost turnout.

The ad , titled "Don't miss the opportunity to vote," will air nationally and in several states with races crucial to Democrats. It’s the latest part of the party's more than $1 million campaign to get minority and female voters to the polls in November.

The ad hits Republicans on their budget proposal, Medicare and the minimum wage.

"It’s time to rise up — we can’t stay at home," a female narrator says in the ad, according to a translation. "The decisions we make this November are too important." In addition to national spots, the ad will air on stations in two states hosting competitive Senate races — Colorado and North Carolina — and also in Georgia. The ad will also run in stations in Nevada, Florida and Texas.

"Democrats are committed to expanding the vote and we want to ensure that this November Latinos come out to vote and make their voices heard,” DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said.

The DNC featured President Obama in the turnout campaign’s first radio ad released last week, encouraging black voters to get to the polls. While the committee described it as a "seven-figure" campaign, it did not detail the specific amount dedicated to each ad.

While Hispanic voters tend to overwhelmingly support Democrats, their turnout rate in midterm elections lags behind other groups, including white and black voters. In 2010, only 31 percent of eligible Hispanic voters turned out, 17 points behind white voters, according to Pew Research.

With the exception of Colorado, Hispanic voters make up only a sliver of eligible voters in states hosting competitive Senate races, according to Pew. Hispanics represent 14 percent of the electorate in Colorado, above the 11 percent national average. But they make up only 4 percent in Georgia and 3 percent in North Carolina.

[SECURE AMERICA]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is telling Hispanic voters they “can’t stay at home” during the midterm elections in a new Spanish-language radio ad seeking to boost turnout.

Yeah come out and vote for the Democrat candidates so they can screw you over like they have the black vote for decades. Terrible crime ridden filthy dirty cities. Broken promise after broken promise

[BenLurkin]

For the last 40 years the Party of Government has done all it can to replace American voters with Mexicans.

[Arthur McGowan]

And Cardinals O’Malley, Dolan, Wuerl, and Archbishops Gomez and others will be doing their part to make sure there are more and more Hispanics to vote pro-abortion, in this and future elections.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is telling Hispanic voters they “can’t stay at home” during the midterm elections

Badly translated into Spanish, it probably says that if you don't show up to vote the government is going to come and demolish your house.

[Texan5]

Not to worry-no puedes quedarte en casa is nothing like el gobierno va y demoler su casa-even in the texmex I speak, the two are not even close. I watch Telemundo a few evenings a week, and it is loaded with repub ads, most of them for Greg Abbott-not many for dems, I am pleased to say-I guess illegals and the like must watch some other Spanish language station.

Davis is not popular around here, or in any other community with people of Hispanic ancestry-we do not condone abortion, period. And an illegal stands a snowball’s chance in hell of voting here...

[ought-six]

To the Dims, ethnicity reigns supreme.