Actually, ansel, that's pretty short-sighted.
There are times when some of us have knowledge that the rest of the FReepers on a thread may not have.
E.g., I give you Buckhead on the famous Dan Rather thread -- who gave us the insight of the letters being in default Word format, with Times New Roman font. Something that I did not initially recognize (nor did anybody else), but was able to confirm with my own professional experience with the typesetting/typography of the era.
Should Buckhead have kept his keyboard quiet, as you suggest?
If you don't mind, I'll continue to contribute my personal knowledge and experience to a thread whenever it's appropriate -- even if I may not have a link for it.
You are, of course, free to ignore me. And I you.
You are citing percentages from polls, hard facts, show us the polls.
This is the article you guys are looking for:
The poll seems to have something for everyone. It does say that 60% of Hispanics want the border sealed first, before advancing on Amnesty (versus 30% that don’t), but it also says something like 80% eventually do want Amnesty for those still here. I think the prospect of being hounded by INS only because they’re Hispanic bothers them.
Patrick has, brilliantly, only talking border security - that’s why it’s actually helping him with Hispanics. If he moves to Amnesty, he may start losing them. Needless to say, the Dems have the same polling, which is why they act like they want to secure the border - but the end-game for them is clearly Amnesty and re-population of this country.
In digging for this poll, I did see poll-after-poll from last summer (when the Dems were making their real move, funny how the polling just happens at the same time) - and every poll had similar results on Amnesty - which were the results of the above poll. Hispanics do want eventual Amnesty - I’d love to find an eventual poll that says otherwise, but a lot of Hispanics do have relatives here illegally and that sets their position.