Posted on 05/29/2012 3:26:32 PM PDT by mdittmar
With polls showing two-thirds of Latino voters supporting President Barack Obama for re-election, the Republican Party faces an uphill battle to capture the Hispanic electorate in November. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll released last week shows that less than a third of Latinos, 27 percent, are planning to back the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney.
The Democrats have been leading the way in reaching out to this growing group of voters, set to make up around 10 percent of the electorate at the end of this year. Mr. Obama has already spent $1 million on Spanish-language media over the last couple of weeks in states with growing Latino populations such as Florida, Colorado and Nevada. On the other hand, the Romney campaign has only just made its first Hispanic media buy, bringing the presumed GOP nominee's Spanish-language media investments to $13,000.
During a primary campaign marked by tough talk on immigration on the Republican side, Romney stood firmly against amnesty for illegal immigrants as well as the DREAM Act, a bill that allows states to offer in-state tuition to the undocumented children of illegal immigrants.
Tuesday's NewsHour broadcast will feature a Gwen Ifill report from Colorado on Latinos and the 2012 presidential race. Gwen interviewed Gary Segura, a Stanford University political science professor who is a principal at the polling firm Latino Decisions.
Segura detailed the growth of the Latino electorate in states like Wisconsin and Virginia, and said both of the campaigns could do more to gain the support of these key voters.
"The path for victory for the Democrats with respect to Latino voters is baiting the Republicans into saying awful things," he said. "The president has widely disappointed Latino voters through the failure to pursue immigration reform through unprecedented deportations. But he can credibly claim to be better than the alternative when the alternative is saying horrible things."
Segura said the Republican path to victory was less clear. "In some respect, Republicans could do better among Latino voters if they don't bite at the immigrant provocations from the Democrats," he noted. "That silence would improve the circumstances for Latinos voting Republican."
Segura detailed the growth of the Latino electorate in states like Wisconsin and Virginia, and said both of the campaigns could do more to gain the support of these key voters.
Do What? Where are all these Latino voters? Wisconsin? Virgina? LMAO
By the second generation Latinos do not even speak Spanish. They're totally Americans.
Could it be he's talking the illegal vote?
“Free stuff” or Freedom! You decide 2012. It looks like we know which way the “Hispanics” have decided to go.
anyone that thinks getting more than 27% of the Latin vote is possible does not remember how much work GWB put in for that number. If Mitt is at 27% now he will get to 33 and the game is over.
The only problem we have with the latino vote is 20 million illegal immigrants. Both parties looked the other way for 25 years.
If by Americans you mean anti-capitalist, racial spoils loving collectivists, then yes.
And they know obama;)
It might win them Latino votes but create a backlash among the rest of us.
Look at Romney. His father was born in Mexico and as far as I know, Mitt doesn't speak Spanish. (I think he learned French when he was a missionary.)
What about the Mennonites? They’re multilingual and total trash but that wasn’t your point was it. (moron)
Here we have a series of brainless, left wing, 30 IQ sluts cheerleading for Buckwheat.
Here we have a series of brainless, left wing, 30 IQ sluts cheerleading for Buckwheat.
Nothing new. I was first baited on Chicano issues 41 years ago in Fullerton CA. Fortunately it had little political impact. But I felt beat up.
Oh, like the Demonrats did not know this? They have the largest industry in America geared towards race baiting Hispanics to manipulate them onto that thug black welfare plantation.
Listen, you piece of sh!t Noob! You have no idea who the “Mennonites” are. Perhaps you wanted to slur the Mormons, who I don’t have a beef with, as of now. But, to bring the Mennonites into this proves your ignorance about this subject.
You have no idea who and what a Mennonite is, do you?
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