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NEWSWEEK COVER: Latino Power
Prnewswire ^ | Sunday May 22, 10:59 am ET

Posted on 05/22/2005 8:13:47 AM PDT by Brian Mosely

NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa accomplished what Democrats dream of doing nationwide: he energized Latino voters to turn out for him at historic levels and stitched together the sort of multiracial coalition that has often eluded less-gifted politicians, Newsweek reports. In the May 30 Newsweek cover "Latino Power" (on newsstands Monday, May 23), Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores and Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman assess the impact of Villaraigosa's election on national politics and the Latino vote. Though they won the Hispanic vote last November, Democrats lost ground to Republicans for the second straight presidential-election cycle. To remain viable as a party, Democrats need to win Latinos back. At stake is nothing less than control of the presidency and Congress. If the GOP maintains its current share of the Latino vote, "then the Democrats will never be the majority party again in our lifetimes," Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network, tells Newsweek.

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"As with the Irish, so too with Mexican-Americans, as Villaraigosa's comfortable margin of victory in the Los Angeles mayor's race attests," Rodriguez writes. "Villaraigosa, a onetime militant campus activist, fashioned his first race for the mayoralty in 2001 around a labor-left-Latino alliance. He lost. Four years later he broadened his message, built a more ideologically moderate multiethnic coalition and won by nearly 20 percentage points."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7937184/site/newsweek/

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; aztlaniscoming; illegals; laraza; latinos; maldef; mecha; mexa; racist; villaraigosa; voterfraud
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To: shellshocked

You're taking the long term view. If more people were capable of that we might have a future.


41 posted on 05/22/2005 1:17:30 PM PDT by Klickitat
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To: All
So why ain't they Hispanic? I thought Latino was Spain.

"Hispanic: related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain; 'the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly'"

42 posted on 05/22/2005 1:22:51 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (Goo- goo- google, good bye!)
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To: chicagolady

Normally I trust what you say, I'm sure I've read what you have done as a minuteman? However, can I ask who you are voting for as Anglo-Saxon European of the year? Why should one type of heritage take precidence over another? Who are you voting for African-American of the year. I thought this was America, the melting pot where all people are expected to assimilate and we judge people on their character rather than the color of their skin. I believe all this racial stuff is detrimental to our society.


43 posted on 05/22/2005 1:38:45 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: HiJinx; Travis McGee
Los Angeles Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa accomplished what Democrats dream of doing nationwide: he energized Latino voters to turn out for him at historic levels and stitched together the sort of multiracial coalition that has often eluded less-gifted politicians,

More BS from NW...the turnout of registered voters was just over 30%...of that Villaraigosa captured 58%. Not so much that the voters where voting for Villa, but rather voting against Hahn...regardless, the results stand...but Newsweek is really embellishing the results.

44 posted on 05/22/2005 1:42:43 PM PDT by in the Arena (Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 110.)
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To: Brilliant
If everyone is mad as hell about illegals, then how come they keep electing pro-immigration politicians?

I don't know about other states, but those in California who are mad as hell about illegals are voting with their feet. They are leaving California (or at least Los Angeles) in droves. (Now many are finding that their new neighborhoods are being invaded, as well. They can run from this invasion, but they cannot hide.)

Besides, in this particular election, we had no choice. Hahn is the one who proudly proclaimed that Los Angeles is "a Mexican city." He isn't much better than Villaraigosa.

45 posted on 05/22/2005 1:56:32 PM PDT by Nea Wood (I considered atheism but there weren't enough holidays.)
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To: ozarkgirl

It is going on regardless! These are MALDEF kind of folk. I am a Latina they need to hear about who has stood against everything they stand for!!
I am a conservative Latina who is on the right side of the issue.
I have stood along other freepers , FReeping Hilary ansd organizing a rally for our troops when the war broke out.
It is NOT about me!! It is about the message we are sending to these freaks!


46 posted on 05/22/2005 2:02:07 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: ozarkgirl

However, can I ask who you are voting for as Anglo-Saxon European of the year?

Jim Gilchrist and Tom Tancredo!

Maybe even gubamyster and Hijinx!!


47 posted on 05/22/2005 2:03:21 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: chicagolady

OK, I can see where you're coming from. You are trying to send the message "it's OK to be Latino and be conservative" and you prefer a Latina conservative to win rather than a left wing type Latina.


48 posted on 05/22/2005 2:20:18 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: Klickitat

"long term view"


The scary part is that we are talking they may control those states by the next election in three years.


49 posted on 05/22/2005 2:29:05 PM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

bttt


50 posted on 05/22/2005 2:35:57 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: DoughtyOne
The dominos are in place. It's only a matter of time. I used to get worked up over it, but you know what, I've had it. If the citizens of this nation are stupid enough to let it happen, and just about everyone from the President on down are, then perhaps it is best.

Everyone I know is either leaving or mapping out their escape. It won't be another border state for me, either.

51 posted on 05/22/2005 3:35:11 PM PDT by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: HiJinx

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!


52 posted on 05/22/2005 4:16:49 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Brian Mosely
"stitched together the sort of multiracial coalition that has often eluded less-gifted politicians, Newsweek reports."

Dear Newsweek - please google 'Tom Bradley'.

Then try 'Gene Biscaluez' and 'Leo Carillo'.

It's not the 'multiracial' part I'm worried about, it's the MECHA before the other multiracials that worries me.

53 posted on 05/22/2005 6:14:51 PM PDT by norton (build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
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To: Travis McGee
"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos... non-Latinos aren't watching, they aren't raising questions" ~ Fernando Guerra, professor, Loyola Marymount

Oh, we're raising questions alright. However, our questions and comments are being quickly hushed up.

54 posted on 05/23/2005 8:02:55 AM PDT by swampfox98 (Michael Reagan: "It's time to stop the flood.")
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To: dalereed

San Fernando Valley came very close to doing it already. I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen there and in the South Bay area.


55 posted on 05/23/2005 11:47:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

I have never understood the mentality of the Mexican national that escapes the hell-hole his own government made for him, then trashes the nation he escaped to, in order to prosper.

Viva el Mexico is fine, but when it takes over California, California will revert to Mexican standards IMO.


56 posted on 05/23/2005 11:52:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: truthkeeper

Me either...


57 posted on 05/23/2005 11:53:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Brian Mosely

You can always tell if an article is slanted to the left by use of the word "Latino" versus "Hispanic". Most of the Hispanics I know call themselves "Hispanics" and not "Latino".
Of course, the fact that it's in Newsweak was a big clue too.


58 posted on 05/23/2005 11:54:43 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana (I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez was't cool.)
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To: brazzaville

You will have support from this Pennsylvanian one way or another. I will not give this country (all of it) up without a fight.


59 posted on 05/23/2005 11:58:17 AM PDT by stevio (Red-Blooded American Male)
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To: Brian Mosely

I can't imagine that someone as weak-kneed as Bush on immigration could capture the Republican nomination in 2008. Let's pray not. He's been, and remains, a disaster on protecting our borders.


60 posted on 05/23/2005 12:05:50 PM PDT by reelfoot
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