[Pelham]

I have news for you- the millions of Mexican ancestry latinos aren’t impressed with Cubans.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Just so long as his name sounds like a Mexican restaurant the Hispanics are fine with him.

[entropy12]

We can argue till we are blue in the face. Wait and see the results. But Rubio will not get the nod anyway. It will be a governor.

[Huaynero]

Calle Ocho may not be what it once was. In much the same mold of early 60’s Cubans, Venezuelans have brought their talent and wealth to South Florida. It follows that other Latins continue to do likewise throughout the US.

[rustbucket]

I have news for you- the millions of Mexican ancestry latinos aren’t impressed with Cubans.

Houston has a huge population of people of Mexican ancestry. A Cuban Republican ran for mayor of Houston in 2003 against a black Democrat and a white Democrat. The white Democrat won. In 2002 a person of Mexican ancestry ran for Texas Governor. He lost to Rick Perry.

I took the first 60 precincts reported in the Houston newspaper (out of a huge number of precincts) and what I knew about what the ethnic/economic makeup of those precincts. I plotted the results of the 2003 election against the results of the 2002 election for those precincts whose results were available for both elections. The result was this plot which shows that in 2003 a large percentage of Houston's people of Mexican ancestry voted for the Cuban Republican. In the previous year a much larger percentage of those with Mexican ancestry voted for the Democrat governor candidate with Mexican ancestry. The precincts shown as black dots were areas of town that I didn't know well enough to categorize their ethnic/economic makeup.

If Romney picks Rubio as his VP, would Obama drop Biden and pick someone of Mexican ancestry or a woman?

[cutexx]

Funny you said that. As a Cuban, I can guarantee that “Latinos” don’t look too kindly upon Cubans. We are successful and love America, it is our second home. We do not march against our country. In Obama we see Castro and his “change.” Johnson’s Adjustment Act doesn’t help our cause, either....It is folly to think that because Rubio speaks Spanish the Hispanic vote is ours. If anything, we’d lose them. Oh yeah, almost forgot kinda like Rubio forgets, he is not natural born.