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GOP Promotes Rubio Even Though He is Less Popular With Hispanics Than Bush
Politicususa ^ | April 13, 2013 | Jason Easley

Posted on 04/13/2013 3:13:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Marco Rubio’s approval rating is six points lower with Hispanics than George W. Bush’s, so the Republican Party thinks it is a great idea to put him on all 5 Sunday shows.

The Republican “rebrand” strategy is centered around making Sen. Marco Rubio the face of immigration reform. The problem is that Hispanics aren’t flocking to the Florida Republican. A new poll from NBC News/WSJ/Telemundo found that despite months of efforts to elevate Rubio, the senator’s approval rating with Hispanics is 23%. Twenty five percent of those polled were neutral, 12% had a negative opinion, and 40% didn’t know him. On the surface, these numbers don’t seem all that bad. The fact that Rubio is a relative unknown could provide upside for his approval.

Republicans might be feeling good about Rubio if the same poll didn’t reveal that George W. Bush’s approval rating with Hispanics is six points higher (29%) than Marco Rubio’s (23%). President Obama’s approval rating with Hispanics is almost three times larger than Rubio’s (64%), but not even the president can match potential 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval rating of 65%.

The GOP is responding to this lukewarm reception for Rubio by putting him on all five of the Sunday news shows tomorrow as their face of immigration reform. Just like they did with women and Sarah Palin, Republicans are acting on the assumption that Hispanic Americans will vote for them if they promote a Hispanic person.

Instead of admitting that the problem is what they stand for, Republicans are trying to once again put a different race/gender/ethnicity on the same failed platform.

Splashing Marco Rubio’s face all over television on Sunday morning isn’t going send Hispanics back to the Republican Party.....

(Excerpt) Read more at politicususa.com ...


TOPICS: Florida; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: amnesty; fff; florida; immigration; marcorubio; palin; rubio
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think they are just using him to score votes.


41 posted on 04/13/2013 6:54:32 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hit piece by a Politico copycat. Promotes Hildy


42 posted on 04/13/2013 7:02:34 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause..Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

JMO....

North and South American Hispanics don’t relate to Cubans. They may all have similar roots from Spain/Portugal, but the cultures are not at all similar.

Cubans are generally either White or White/Black mix. The NA and SA Hispanics are generally White or White/Am. Indian mix.


43 posted on 04/13/2013 7:15:58 PM PDT by octex
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To: zeestephen
The Mariel boat lift was the turning point.

It's why Obama carried the Cuban-American vote in Florida by 20 points last year.

44 posted on 04/13/2013 7:24:43 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: octex

Add-on to my post above...

I realize what I posted was somewhat simplistic and generalized. However, I truly believe there is a large cultural divide between NA/SA Hispanics and the Cubans and Puerto Ricans.

I’m a Natural Born Texan with ancestors who were here in the 1820s when it was still part of Mexico. Obviously, there are cultural differences between me and someone who has lived their whole life in one of the Northeastern States.

That’s essentially the comparison I was attempting to make about why “Hispanics” are not very supportive of Rubio.


45 posted on 04/13/2013 7:41:38 PM PDT by octex
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Brain wave for the elite GOPee RINO establishment: Marco Rubio isn't the great hope for the Republicrat Party. He's nothing but a RINO. RINOs have to be hunted to extinction.
46 posted on 04/13/2013 9:59:10 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Re: “I stand with Rand.”

That will give you a better view of Conservatives walking away from the GOP.

Last week he told a group of Blacks he favored eliminating or reducing prison terms for many drug offenders - Bye-Bye, Cultural Conservatives.

He punts on gay marriage, never explicitly saying he is against it - Bye-Bye, Evangelicals.

His immigration plan says nothing about E-Verify or employer sanctions, which, of course, would cause illegals to self-deport by the millions - Bye-Bye, Immigration Hawks.

He is a Foreign Policy Dove and has equivocal positions on Israel - Bye-Bye, Defense Hawks and Neo-Cons.

He seems to be completely unaware that 80% of new immigrant citizens vote for the Democrat Party - Bye-Bye, America.

47 posted on 04/13/2013 11:57:10 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: exist

For goodness sakes Rand Paul is a demagogue.


48 posted on 04/14/2013 3:51:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: zeestephen

/bingo

He’s not a Republican, he’s from that deep tradition of pre-Civil War Democrats.


49 posted on 04/14/2013 3:54:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I know a hit piece when I read one and this is a hit piece.

Rightly or wrongly, Marco Rubio is getting the Palin treatment.

Rubio’s biggest mistake and perhaps a fatal mistake, was joining that idiot Immigration Reform Gang of Eight. Schumer suckered him into that one, big time.


50 posted on 04/14/2013 4:02:54 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More and more, we focus less and less on the army on the Left that seeks to destroy us and spend time that should be devoted to the guys who are actively trying to destroy us on those who have some standing on our own side. Khrushchev was right - we will destroy ourselves from the inside by allowing ourselves to become distracted.


51 posted on 04/14/2013 4:59:01 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Aria
Even their Spanish is quite different than other Spanish speaking peoples.

While the slangy, rapid fire acento costal spoken around the Caribbean is tough for gringos from Mrs. Wojiezchowski'a Espanol 101, it is, I assure you, mutually intelligible everywhere en el mundo hispano. My heavily fortified Tex-Mex gets smiles in Spain, but they understand me perfectly, and I them.

Castilian Spanish was the first European language to have standard grammar and spelling, and entry was consciously made easy so newly conquered Indians could communicate. Of course on the upper levels, it is as difficult and as nuanced as Italian or French. No matter what the country, that of course is a class thing. BTW, even the lower classes en el mundo hispano, do not make the atrocious grammatical errors one hears every day in American English. Go figure.

Rubio's problem isn't Spanish. It's that he is really a bit of a fake. E.G., he allows everyone to assume that his folks were refugees from that bad boy Fidel. Not so. They came in '54. So there's less excuse for them having neglected to become citizens in time for them to bestow natural born Citizenship on wonder boy. And speaking of wonderboy and linguistics, what's with the Eyetie handle "Marco?" En espanol it's "Marcos" with an "s." This idea that suddenly the 100 million Latinos wandering around the US are going to follow this fellow into the GOP is laughable.

In fact, we could probably save the Republic if we pulled 20% of the Hispanic vote and a lousy 12-13% of the African-American vote, providing of course that the base actually shows up, at which they are really bad. Maybe that minor inroad into minorities is what the RINOs (and Marco is a RINO) are shooting for. Keep'em in the game.

Thank you for a most brilliant and disarmingly simple thought:
Maybe we should focus on the person's ideas - once they've cleared the eligibility hurdles that is.

52 posted on 04/14/2013 5:39:33 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No Criminal Charges Stick)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
I stand with Rand.

Then you are standing with a political coward whose Amnesty plan (re: "Normalization") will effectively kill both the GOP and this country.
53 posted on 04/14/2013 9:24:42 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: onyx
Rubio’s biggest mistake and perhaps a fatal mistake, was joining that idiot Immigration Reform Gang of Eight. Schumer suckered him into that one, big time.

Rubio has been consistent with his Pro-Amnesty position.

Hit piece or not, his position on Amnesty and Illegal Aliens is completely wrong.
54 posted on 04/14/2013 9:26:28 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie; onyx

Don’t forget who is behind the scenes running this amnesty scam.

Who is Cesar Conda? (Rubio’s chief of staff, for one thing)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007546/posts


55 posted on 04/14/2013 9:32:27 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: SoConPubbie

“I stand with Rand.”

“Then you are standing with a political coward whose Amnesty plan (re: “Normalization”) will effectively kill both the GOP and this country.”

So tell me who do you see as the saviour of the conservative movement?


56 posted on 04/14/2013 4:40:32 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
So tell me who do you see as the savior of the conservative movement?

Anybody who is actually a conservative.

If you are backing Amnesty, you ain't a conservative, maybe a Libertarian, but certainly not a conservative.

ANd BTW, Senator Cruz, as of yet, has not succumbed to the evilness that is Amnesty.
57 posted on 04/14/2013 6:39:48 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: zeestephen; Georgia Girl 2
His immigration plan says nothing about E-Verify or employer sanctions, which, of course, would cause illegals to self-deport by the millions - Bye-Bye, Immigration Hawks.

Actually, Rand Paul has stated specifically that he doesn't want anything to do with strengthening or using E-Verify.

This is how you KNOW he is a wolf in sheep's clothing where Illegal Immigration is concerned.
58 posted on 04/14/2013 7:12:45 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SunkenCiv

Agreed.


59 posted on 04/14/2013 9:46:32 PM PDT by exist
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To: SoConPubbie

“So tell me who do you see as the savior of the conservative movement?”

“Anybody who is actually a conservative.”

So basically you have no clue.


60 posted on 04/15/2013 7:30:27 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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