[notbuyingit2]

This information comes from the .pdf of poll statistics, not the body of the article itself.

[Melas]

I’m surprised the number isn’t higher. I run into multiple Spanish speakers every single day.

[finnman69]

Like the busboys who brought me my chicken wings tonight at the sportsbar?

[Tzimisce]

Um....and?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

78 percent in this ABC News Good Morning America poll say they often or sometimes come into contact with people in this country who speak mainly Spanish rather than English won't speak english – including 55 percent who encounter it “often.”

[Professional]

78% often or sometimes?

Does the ATM machine, or the automated phone system really count???

Where I live, find it hilarious how much bilingual stuff there is, because there can’t be more than 3 or 5% that are Spanish first or only here in the Tacoma area.

Now on the other hand, illiterate people probably be far more than that, yet I don’t see any hyroglyphics, or whatever you spell that, as an option...

[hole_n_one]

At the 7-11 where I stop to get coffee in the morning, 78% of the customers are speaking Spanish.....the other 21% are speaking Hindu or whatever it's called that the two cashiers are yacking in.

Call me 1%

[JRios1968]

¿Qué?

[aShepard]

Every time that I have a choice of either going to Home Depot versus Lowes,

I’ll pick Home Depot!

It totally pisses me off that every single sign, everywhere in the Lowe’s store, has to be in both English and Spanish!

Every friggin sign, whether it’s to locate a cash register, or to have you remember that you can wipe yourself with free toiletpaper, is in spanish!

Frig-em, and I told the local manager the same - but it’s corporate policy; even here in Rhode Island, where everyone speaks Portugese if not English!

[Bender2]

It is not their Spanish speaking that bothers me... it is their breaking the law and their 43 items in the Express Line that bothers me!

[rightwinggoth]

okay.

[Old Sarge]

Press 2 for English - thank you, Jorge Arbusto.

[cpdiii]

Every night when I go to bed. However, her English grammar is better than mine and she votes conservative. She tells me, “We are taking Texas back, one gringo at a time.”

[madison10]

Yeah, the little (as in child) contact I had last year flipped me the bird. I was totally impressed with his bilingual communication abilities.

[MaxMax]

I'm 100% American and 0% of my 78% has zero contact with Spanish speakers.
Whatever the heck "Spanish speakers" is supposed to mean in spin lingo.

People who are bothered by interactions with Spanish speakers are decidedly
more negative about immigration policy.
Oh, I get it now. I'm a racist for not having contact with Spanish speakers.

[americanophile]

If you’re from a border state the poll should ask how often you run into someone who speaks English.

[RachelFaith]

That’s cause the real count is 38 MILLION...

Or rather in a more Spiritual Sense... I would guess 40 Million...

Since that’s how many English speaking babies we’ve murdered.

[Empireoftheatom48]

I have a part time job.I do a scientific research poll, doing calls in Cal. As an aside I have called people in various states but people in Cal. for the most part are very uncooperative and rude. I get a lot of answering machines that only speak Spanish as well as families who don’t speak English at all. Most customer service jobs in my area only hire Bilingual. It’s Hell to be an old Conservative white guy here!

[G Larry]

I just took a poll of 10 million Americans and discovered that 100% of Americans often or frequently come into contact with Christians.

Ummmm.....what are we supposed to conclude from the “information” presented in these kind of polls?

I think the results of my poll indicate we should declare America a Christian nation!

[dragnet2]

All told, 78 percent in this ABC News Good Morning America poll say they often or sometimes come into contact with people in this country who speak mainly Spanish rather than English

What would they expect when our government has aided and abetted the violent invasion of 25,000,000 illegal aliens?

Go Homeland Security!

[Sir_Ed]

After the Life Chain on Sunday we had pretzels at the local mall. The woman at the cash register could not speak one single word of English. She just stared at us when we asked her about the cost of one of the items, then her boss whispered in her ear what we said.

She just stared at us as we said “no ice” for the drinks, ‘til her manager whispered again in Spanish what we had just said.

The she dropped my change in my hands, without saying a word. I said “don’t you count out change?” She again just stared blankly at me, until her manager whispered in Spanish what we said at which point she said in almost incomprehensible English “four dollars.”

And the most bizzare aspect of this? We went to the same pretzel shop at the mall LAST year after the Life Chain and had the SAME woman as this time and in one year’s time, she was STILL as unliterate in English as a year prior!

That time, last year, we asked her about the jalapeno chicken, and she just stared at us, till someone told her in Spanish what we had asked. Same thing with a detail on the fried rice in the combo plate...just stared at us until someone whispered in Spanish what we were saying!

So here it is, ONE YEAR LATER, and this SAME woman (we knew it was the same woman because she had an unusual non-Latino name) has not learned ONE SINGLE WORD OF ENGLISH!!!

Why the owner hires such a bizzare choice for someone who works with the public, I will never know! I suspect it has to do with her working for less money or benefits than a citizen?

Ed