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Poll: More than half of Hispanics identify as conservative [TxGov]
Dallas Morning News ^ | 2-23-2010 | ROBERT T. GARRETT

Posted on 02/24/2010 7:15:59 AM PST by deport

Regardless, Gov. Rick Perry has fared relatively well, perhaps because of his anti-Washington rhetoric and his careful immigration stance, a recent poll indicates.

It shows more than half of Texas Hispanics call themselves conservative, and a surprising 23 percent say they might participate in Tuesday's GOP primary. Among those, Perry leads Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by 2 to 1, according to the poll, commissioned by an Austin consultant for a national group of Hispanic legislative leaders...

Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, said the poll hints at a little-noticed facet of Perry's political persona: He doesn't frighten Hispanics because he often visits their communities, and he distances himself from immigration hard-liners in the GOP.

"He thought the border wall was a little ridiculous and didn't think it was going to help,"... "What he wanted to keep out were those people that are smuggling drugs and people."

...But she said many Hispanics remember that Perry signed a 2001 bill that let illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition at public colleges. He has defended the bill, saying affected students have studied hard in Texas schools and will be good citizens. ...

The poll found that only 18 percent of Texas Hispanics say they're liberal or progressive, while 54 percent say they're conservative, moderate conservative or religiously conservative.

But Camarillo said many Hispanics who identify themselves as conservative aren't talking about "less taxes, less government," the way white conservatives would.

"When a Latino says that he or she is conservative, they're thinking about how they are raising the kids and ... the family," she said. "It's more about work ethic, and that when you give your word, you give your word. ...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; conservativevote; dontbelieveit; hispanicvote; hutchison; immigration; perry; texas; tx2010; txgov
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To: runninglips

What does that have to do with whether they are protestants, and whether, as protestants, they vote conservatively?


21 posted on 02/24/2010 7:34:44 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: Nevadan

“I know a lot of people who are actually very conservative in their views and how they live their lives. But when it comes to voting, they will vote Democrat every time.”

yeah i see the same dang thing
agree with me on everything
vote for a Dem
WTF


22 posted on 02/24/2010 7:36:41 AM PST by DM1
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To: deport
If you have about 5 minutes take time and watch the following You Tube entitled "We The People". It is about taking our country back.

We The People


23 posted on 02/24/2010 7:37:07 AM PST by deport (TEXAS PRIMARY -- EARLY VOTING FEB 16 - 26..... Vote today.)
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To: ansel12

Have you ever lived in a US community where Hispanics are the majority?


24 posted on 02/24/2010 7:37:38 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: deport
But Camarillo said many Hispanics who identify themselves as conservative aren't talking about "less taxes, less government," the way white conservatives would.

54% of Hispanics self-describe themselves as white.

25 posted on 02/24/2010 7:37:45 AM PST by kabar
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To: ansel12
Thirty two percent of Hispanic voters are Protestant, 56% voted Republican in 2004 and in the Obama tsunami, 48% still voted for McCain.

Source please.

26 posted on 02/24/2010 7:39:34 AM PST by kabar
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To: ansel12
It may be insurmountable. 67% of Hispanic voters voted for Obama despite McInsane being pro amnesty and a lover of La Raza.

Fifty percent of Hispanic children in America are born illegitimate. I do not expect them to grow up and vote Republican.

Of course the Hispanic community is not monolithic, we may make inroads in certain groups or cultures, but the overall situation for Conservatives is much more negative than positive.

27 posted on 02/24/2010 7:44:07 AM PST by MBB1984
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To: deport

A lot of “Hispanics” ARE conservative, no doubt about it.

However, their families have been citizens since they helped Sam Houston whip Santa Anna.

Now, as for recent immigrants and invading barbarians (aka illegal aliens), somehow, I suspect they weren’t polled. I suspect most of the will vote for all the “free stuff” they can get.


28 posted on 02/24/2010 7:44:07 AM PST by Little Ray (Madame President sounds really good to me...)
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To: La Lydia

Yes I have and I am surrounded by them right now but what does that have to do with what I posted, why does learning about the Republican Protestant Hispanic vote annoy you so instead of pleasing you?


29 posted on 02/24/2010 7:44:15 AM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: kabar

Here is one for 2004.

GOP could lose Hispanic evangelicals
Top leaders have a lot riding on immigration, says WILLIAM McKENZIE

12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert should paste these numbers on their bathroom mirrors and think about them each morning while they shave:

• 32 percent of Hispanics voting in the 2004 presidential election identified themselves as Protestants, up from 25 percent in 2000.

• 56 percent of those Hispanic Protestants voted to re-elect President Bush, up from the 44 percent supporting him four years earlier.

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/DN-mckenzie_0404edi.ART.State.Edition1.4792.html


30 posted on 02/24/2010 7:47:21 AM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: ansel12; La Lydia

Popular vote 2008 Presidential race

Hispanic share of vote 2004 and 2008 Presidential elections

Hispanic vote by state for Obama

31 posted on 02/24/2010 7:48:55 AM PST by kabar
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To: ansel12

Does the Hispanic evangelical vote support amnesty? If so, then it is suicidal to court their vote if that is a precondition for them to vote Rep. Bush and McCain supported amnesty. I seriously doubt that the Rep candidate in 2012 will do so.


32 posted on 02/24/2010 7:53:22 AM PST by kabar
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To: rbmillerjr; deport; La Lydia

>>>We need to get the message, the conservative message out on hispanic radio and tv.

When “Juan” McCain and “Jorge” Bush are nasty insults, the only message sent out is we hate Hispanics. Regardless of their values, you don’t vote for people who hate you and consider you trash and don’t try to hide it.

Never mind all the Texican Hispanics who died on OUR side at the Alamo or how many generations their families have lived here. It’s all painted with one brush.


33 posted on 02/24/2010 7:55:26 AM PST by tlb
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To: rbmillerjr
We need to get the message, the conservative message out on hispanic radio and tv.

This can't be emphasized strongly enough. It's a do or die situation. If we surrender the Hispanic vote to the left, we lose the country forever. There is no other option.

34 posted on 02/24/2010 7:57:07 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: ansel12

I have lived in several cities where Hispanics are in the majority. They have inevitably been Democratic fiefdoms run along the lines of Mexican political practices and patronage (not to mention corruption). Anglo politicians, El Paso State Senator Eliot Shapleigh comes to mind, pander as hard and as fast as they can, to the point of cultivating constituencies inside Mexico and accepting awards from the Mexican government for their work undermining US immigration laws. But I digress. As I mentioned earlier, fewer than a third of Hispanics are protestant, let’s say, 30 percent. Given the voting record of 2008, that would mean that 15 percent of any Hispanic population might, just might, be inclined to vote conservatively at any given time. This is not ever going to make a difference. The Left counts on the Hispanic vote because it is theirs. Amnesty will result in permanent Democratic control, and it will inevitably be corrupt. I am not annoyed that (some) Protestant Hispanics vote Republican. I just don’t think it makes that much difference in the larger scheme of things.


35 posted on 02/24/2010 7:57:52 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: deport

BULL! If that were the case, democrats would be so keen upon making them citizens and VOTERS!!


36 posted on 02/24/2010 7:58:41 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: deport
Regardless, Gov. Rick Perry has fared relatively well, perhaps because of his anti-Washington rhetoric and his careful immigration stance....

LMAO...now that's telling it like it really is! What....you Texan's can find a decent conservative candidate who cares about our National Security to represent your state? Hutchinson and Perry are BOTH pro-illegal alien/amnesty...seems to me, being a border state, they'd have more sense than that and this article is nothing but a pure B.S. excuse to continue excusing their position.
37 posted on 02/24/2010 8:02:08 AM PST by Kimberly GG (PALIN SUPPORTS PATH TO CITIZENSHIP AMNESTY and PROGRESSIVE RHINO MCCAIN.)
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To: deport; BuckeyeTexan; Pantera; TWfromTEXAS; BoringGuy; Richard Kimball; girlscout; omegabea; ...
TXGOV ping if anyone is interested

Note: Early Voting ends Friday, Feb. 26.

Early Voting Totals largest 15 Counties by date


38 posted on 02/24/2010 8:03:13 AM PST by deport (TEXAS PRIMARY -- EARLY VOTING FEB 16 - 26..... Vote today.)
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To: Kimberly GG

Naw........... I reckon it’s kinda like Ohio you have to dance with what you have.


39 posted on 02/24/2010 8:07:01 AM PST by deport (TEXAS PRIMARY -- EARLY VOTING FEB 16 - 26..... Vote today.)
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To: kabar

I’m just amazed at how resistant to good news some of you are, Republicans can win over many Hispanics by reaching them through the media filter and appealing to their social conservatism.

To do that we first have to be willing to approach them and talk to them and tell them about the left/right division in America and what the Democrat party actually represents behind the media snow job.

When I speak to Hispanics I hear the conservatism and can win their strong agreement on much that they find important and what they find repulsive, the Republicans have to learn to talk to them.

By showing that the Protestant Hispanics are voting differently than the Catholics Hispanics, it proves that it has something to do with the message that is reaching them, that means that we can start looking at that and figure out how to reach them.


40 posted on 02/24/2010 8:09:20 AM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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