Hispanics Turn Cold Shoulder to McCain

The Politico ^ | October 9, 2008 | Ben Smith

[St. Louis Conservative]

Despite championing immigration reform in 2007, John McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin that is well below President George W. Bush's 2004 performance.

Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters of any Democrat in a decade, while McCain is struggling to reach 30 percent, closer to Senator Bob Dole's dismal 1996 result than to Bush's historic 40% four years ago.

McCain seems to have wound up with the worst of both worlds: He appears to be getting no credit from Latino voters for his past support for immigration reform, while carrying the baggage of other Republicans' hostility to illegal immigration.

[pulaskibush]

27% of hispanics supported Prop 187, which was a bill that would have forced illegal aliens out of CA if not for a Federal Judge.44% of hispanics supported Prop 200 which did the same as Prop 187 for Arizona and was harder to sue against.

The way to win the "hispanic vote" is the same way to win the women vote, black vote, white male vote, etc. First, ignore the leftist run "non-partisan" groups (i.e. Lulac, La Raza, NARAL,AARP, Unions, NAACP etc). Second, articulate Conservative Values and overcome the media/public education bias. Third, vote Conservative.

The poll is most likely rigged, but the fact is that all of McCain's hispandering to leftist hispanic groups, including having the Mexican Government's mouthpiece Juan Hernandez work for his campaign, has been an absolute failure.

[Dust in the Wind]

I have spent untold hours, miles and 6 thousand plus dollars helping a Chihuahuan get a green card over the past 5 years. I am obviously NOT anti-immigration.

I work in the alfalfa industry in a five state area and again obviously work with many that could be called Hispanic or Latino. I am very sure many of them are 100% U.S. citizens but an untold number are probably not. I can not tell by their accents were they are from. I speak enough spanglish and for the most part they speak enough also to get the job done.

I do not pander to anybody though. I don't think my Grandfather or Aunt that got told to go home and learn more English to start their first grade year in American schools would either. Some of my family has been here since Stuyvesant's time and then some were only 100 years ago or so. But again we are not special, just hard working yeomen for our families. One thing I have never heard in my family is any of us calling ourselves German-American or French-American or Russian-American or ...

Never called myself tactful either.

Good Day!

[Tammy8]

Heck half of the Republican party cant understand their are such a thing as a LEGAL MEXICAN!

OK, well if you are a legal citizen that happens to be Hispanic or descent of... then you are a US citizen or American as we used to call ourselves- just like me. If on the other hand you are a citizen of Mexico that is here legally then you would be a "Legal Mexican" so to speak. If you are a citizen, as far as I know the GOP welcomes any citizen- and if you ever donate even a tiny amount they become close friends- as I can vouch for with my overflowing mailbox. If you really are a "legal Mexican" then you cannot vote in the US legally so why would the GOP care about you?

The Democrats welcome and pander to Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities as seperate entities- which to me is racist. The Republicans as far as I know treat every voter the same and don't pander to "groups" in particular.

[ForbesFan]

Non-hispanic whites and Hispanics get along fine. I live in a state that has a large Hispanic population. Obama lost most of the states with a large Hispanic population to Hillary, so Obama has issues there. They are both competing minority groups.

[Clemenza]

Non-hispanic whites and Hispanics get along fine.

With the possible exception of California. I can report that in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Florida native born hispanics get along better with whites and vice versa than either group does with blacks. This is a simple observation that would have political implications if it weren't for the fact that so many whites in those states (Florida being the exception) will be voting for Barry Messiah due largely to the Panic of 2008 and hatred of Bush.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree AuntB.

Thanks for the comments. Sorry to be responding so much later.

[AmericanInTokyo]

JOHN S. MCCAIN WOULD WIN 85% of UNDECIDED VOTERS in these last few days if he would EXPRESS HIS OPEN SUPPORT OF THE GOP 2008 PLATFORM ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and he and Sarah Palin made Clear, Definitive Comments on Amnesty (their opposition) and The Fence (their support).

Obama could not answer this because his party's platform and he himself is for mass legalization of these invaders.

There you have it. This is how McCain get swoop up massive segments of the Undecideds.

Do YOU want him to do this?

Do YOU want him to win the election?

Does HE want to win the election?

[rabscuttle385]

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[Churchillspirit]

Polls show....

Well, that's that then!

[Godwin1]

Is anyone surprised? Deadbeats who expect government to pay their bills and feed their kids will ALL vote for Osama.

[Checkers]

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