Posted on 10/01/2010 8:32:59 PM PDT by pissant
>>> I know all my latino buds are staunch conservatives.
I agree with you. It’s watered down by the illegal immigration flood but still I think there are many more who would act on common sense politics if they weren’t actively pushed away.
When a loud nasty wing of the republicans attack candidates like Florina and McCain for simply campaigning to the Hispanic demographic, many have to think they have no where to go but with the dems. “Juan” is not an epithet, but when you see it used as an epithet and your name IS Juan, how could they be expected to vote for that side.
Black support may have declined from 96% to 95%. It is wasted effort trying to convert them from the Democrat plantation. They are the core of the Dem party. The best you can hope for is they do not show up at the polls. Hispanics, on the other hand, can be converted wihtout necessarily pandering to them as a group.
The way it works is, Catholic Hispanics are liberal and vote democrat, Protestant Hispanics are conservative and vote about 50/50.
The whole Catholic vote itself, is not as conservative as the Protestant Hispanic vote is.
I think the Wash. Times is misreading the poll.
Although it may be quite true that Dominicans and Peruvian immigrants have different opinions on closing the borders for security from those of Mexican origen, the fact remains that the overwhelming numbers of Hispanic immigrants in this country are of Mexican descent.
If the poll surveyed the Hispanic community with some proportionality, then the results must be even worse for the Dems.
This election is becoming comical. I expect the next headline to report that the hapless Dems have lost the black vote.
That they are.
There is a lot of hyperventilating going on out there.
If we do well in this cycle it just means we are back in the fight instead of on the ground. It does NOT mean we have blown up the deathstar.
NEWSFLASH: Americans of Hispanic descent don’t like illegal aliens trashing their country and culture any more than the rest of us.
Not surprising. I’m sure they’re losing jobs like everyone else, and don’t like the looks of their economic futures.
I guess this just leaves takers and traitors.
I guess this just leaves takers and traitors.
This kind of anger often is misread by observers. Just like when Dubya's poll numbers were very low: many pundits believed that Americans were against his 'conservative' positions, while in fact his numbers were low because many conservatives considered him RINO with his positions on bailouts, immigration, and others, and they disapproved of him.
“The vast majority of blacks continued to favor Democrats.”
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Are they simply racists or morons?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Keep in mind they were enslaved to get here and are still the chattel of the Democrats.
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