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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
“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?
“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.
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
...don't answer, OK
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.
“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
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