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To: onyx; Wyrd bið ful aræd

Too little, too late, the issue is the Catholic vote.

Catholics have always voted democrat, it is argued whether 1972 was the first time or the second time (1956) that the Catholic vote went republican, in history.

Hispanics were not around then.

Just as the white Catholics started drifting toward voting republican , JFK’s democratic party and Rome’s immigration policy was replacing them with Hispanic Catholics, so the Catholic denomination’s vote will remain as it always has, democratic.

“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”


34 posted on 11/08/2012 1:28:48 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney not only reelected Obama, he lost the Senate,ruined the "down ticket", West, Mia Love, Brown.)
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To: ansel12
The real issue is not the Catholic vote.

Judging by turnout, we all know the real issue - we are just afraid to confront it. Millions of conservatives decided to "teach the GoP a lesson" because Romney was not conservative enough for them, RomneyCare, etc. and simply refused to vote for him. The turnout, compared to turnout for McCain, tells a pretty clear story.

Yes, conservatives who were staying home out of principle and refusing to vote for Romney we a major reason we have the second term of Obama.
36 posted on 11/08/2012 1:34:50 PM PST by Graing ("The power of wind, fire... all that kind of thing")
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