Posted on 03/10/2007 6:44:26 PM PST by raccoonradio
I don't know, but if it's 25% that still millons of voters.
Plus, as another poster noted, if your native language is Spanish, you would understand a spanish-language commercial more than english even if you speak english.
It's clear that in some areas there are large spanish-speaking populations because the spanish-language channels are very popular.
I recognize that the commercials may be targeting those who speak English well enough to have earned citizenship, but are more fluent in Spanish; without seeing a translation of the ads I wouldn't be able to judge them fairly.
On the other hand, if only 25% of the people in a group do so legally, that would mean that allowing the whole group to vote would disenfranchise more people than there are legitimate voters in the group. To my mind there's something wrong with that.
Of course, the right approach would be to aggressively stamp out voter fraud, but nobody wants to do that.
It's not flip-flopping. I believe Romney was referring to making English the official language of the nation. He didn't say Spanish shouldn't be spoken or Spanish media shouldn't exist.
I haven't seen the translation, but I assume if they said something that could be twisted to be pandering to illegals, the paper would have mentioned that prominently.
It appears that all they could complain about was that he made spanish commercials.
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