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Hispanics Turn Cold Shoulder to McCain
The Politico ^ | October 9, 2008 | Ben Smith

Posted on 10/09/2008 7:09:23 PM PDT by 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.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; aliens; cira; electionpresident; hispanicvote; immigrantlist; justdesserts; justice; karma; mcamnesty; mccain; mccaintruthfile
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To: Texas4ever
Yes I do know what I am saying. Quit whining. I do not speak Russian or German or French or expect our government to print any paperwork in any language except English or provide interpreters.
And personally one of the cruelest persons I have ever known is a green card holding Mexican. Am I predigest? I don't believe so but you probably think so. I don't really care today. Again, quit wining.

People in my family have been serving this country since there was farming being done on the Boston Commons. You and your family are no more special than any others in this nation. Again, quit wining.

81 posted on 10/10/2008 4:54:54 AM PDT by Dust in the Wind (Praying for Reign)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

among the Mexican Latinos this is probably true but with others more of a split with the exception of the Cuban community which wil solidly back McCain


82 posted on 10/10/2008 4:59:43 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Illegal immigration could have been used to woo many white blue collar Democrats to vote for the Reps if we had a candidate that was against amnesty and additional guest worker programs. Obama is very vulnerable on this issue. He even wants to issue illegals driver’s licenses. With rising unemployment and cities and counties suffering huge shortfalls, the costs of illegal immigration are readily apparent.


83 posted on 10/10/2008 5:00:50 AM PDT by kabar
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To: ABQHispConservative
The Republicans’ Hispanic Delusion-- Amnesty is not just wrong in principle, it’s bad politics.
84 posted on 10/10/2008 5:03:15 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Texas4ever
Reps don't play identity politics. We are against amnesty and open borders. How do you welcome the Hispanic/Latino vote? By pandering to them and compromising basic principles?

McCain has a Spanish language website. He hired Juan Hernandez to be his outreach director. He supports amnesty and guest worker programs. He has voted against English being made the official language of the US. McCain has done all of this and yet is losing by landslide proportions in the Hispanic community. Far better for the Reps to stand on principle than to pander.

85 posted on 10/10/2008 5:09:00 AM PDT by kabar
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To: BinaryBoy

“Can someone explain to me again how flooding the country with left-leaning voters from Mexico will help the Republican party?”

I wonder if McCain has started asking that question?


86 posted on 10/10/2008 8:05:49 AM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: DoughtyOne

“If McCain/Palin win, we need to march on one newspaper at a time until they close their doors. I’m sick of this and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

We need to march on them now! In any case, the media needs some protest big time.


87 posted on 10/10/2008 8:09:35 AM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


88 posted on 10/10/2008 8:42:25 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Let Obama have all the illegal votes. We want a country filled with Americans!

John McCain, please stand with your fellow Americans! Country first! No illegals!


89 posted on 10/10/2008 8:47:20 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: raybbr
You can relax.

I was told ... personally ... by Karl Rove himself... that "Mexicans are the Republicans of the Future." Of course, there may not be a "United States" by then.

90 posted on 10/10/2008 8:52:10 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Drill. Double Refining Capacity. Make METHANOL from Coal, NG, Nuclear ..let's roll.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

All them sub-prime loans meant to put hispanics into the American Dream, and it wasn’t enough, damn. The Rinos must try harder, spend more.


91 posted on 10/10/2008 8:52:45 AM PDT by junta (The cult of liberalism is ruled by fear.)
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To: Texas4ever

Your anger is misplaced. You should be angry at the tens of millions of illegals, most from Mexico, who flood into this country and commit crimes, steal identities, undercut wages, use taxpayer-funded services, drive drunk, crowd the schools, cause emergency rooms to shut down, join gangs, spread diseases, rape, steal, and kill, giving all Mexicans a bad name...not at the Americans of all races who are justifiably fed up with it all.


92 posted on 10/10/2008 9:01:26 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: Dust in the Wind
There are a sizeable number of Mexican nationals who are here legally with working visa. I've worked with more than a few over my career. Not all of them choose to seek American citizenship for various reasons. Nor should they be compelled to as a condition for remaining in this country. I have no problem with anyone here legally, even if English is not their primary language.

No, I don't think visa should be hnaded out to anyone, but I definitely do not think people should be compelled to see U.S. citizenship as a condition to work in this country.

93 posted on 10/10/2008 9:03:27 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Texas4ever
“Let me say this the day when my daughter can go to school and not be called a wetback....or Messican...hear me...

My friend had a son who was tall and blond, with a Southern accent. They moved to LA and he went to a mostly Latino high school. He was treated horribly and called names. But you probably think that's okay.

94 posted on 10/10/2008 9:05:33 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Hispanics Turn Cold Shoulder to McCain

I've notice how the McCain campaign has some talking heads or spokespeople out in the media representing him.

Can anyone name one Hispanic talking head for the McCain campaign? How 'bout a black spokesman?
95 posted on 10/10/2008 9:19:01 AM PDT by adorno
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To: robert david
It's not anti-immigrant...it's anti-illegal immigrant.

It's about time...folks either get that right...or just be honest..and say they are pro-illegal aliens.

No one I know in the Republican Party is anti-immigration. Doesn't mean there aren't, but I don't know any.

I am PRO legal immigration...and PRO abiding by the LAWS.

I am very Anti-ILLEGAL immigration...and I don't care if the illegals are, black, brown, red, yellow or green. Either the rule of law stands for something or it doesn't.

What say you?

96 posted on 10/10/2008 9:21:58 AM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
How can they vote if they're here illegally....

...don't answer, OK

97 posted on 10/10/2008 9:25:07 AM PDT by Guenevere (We will NOT collapse.The New World Order WILL collapse.This is our last chance!)
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To: SideoutFred
Stabbed in the back, but many of us could have called that.

It always boils down to partisanship; you see the same thing with all femlib's hatred of Sarah Palin, and the NAACP's disdain for Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, and other black conservatives.

The behavior of dimlibs is so predictable. Whatever cause they claim to support is a diversion, and without exception the establishment of socialism is the objective.

98 posted on 10/10/2008 9:49:59 AM PDT by Marauder (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
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Well, the deadbeat, “what will government do for me” vote is with Osama. To the extent that Hispanics are in this subset of the population, they will not be supporting McCain. If he wins, he needs to remember this.
99 posted on 10/10/2008 10:10:39 AM PDT by Godwin1
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To: AbeKrieger

“It’s a sad truth but a truth nonetheless, like blacks, latinos also tend to support the candidate most likely to provide handouts and ask nothing in return. Perhaps not in numbers equal to blacks, but still in an overwhelming majority.”

Will we never learn?

My comments on “the color of conservatism” here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2098616/posts?page=162#162

- John


100 posted on 10/10/2008 10:21:12 AM PDT by Fishrrman
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