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President Obama has been re-elected with strong Latino support
nbclatino.com ^ | November 6, 2012 | Sandra Lilley

Posted on 11/06/2012 11:05:04 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

Latinos delivered. A record 75 percent of Latinos voted for President Barack Obama, and only 23 percent voted for Romney, according to Latino Decisions exit polls . In 2008, the president won 67 percent of the Hispanic vote while his Republican opponent Sen. John McCain won 31 percent, that’s an 8 percent gain for Obama.

In the battleground state of Colorado, 87 percent of Latinos voted for Obama, while only 10 percent voted for Romney. In Ohio, 82 percent of Latinos voted for President Obama.

In Massachusetts, Latinos came out to vote overwhelmingly for Obama with 89 percent, and just 9 percent for Romney. Latino support here had implications in the white-knuckled, close Massachusetts Senate race. “Latinos are an estimated 6 to 7 percent of all voters in Massachusetts and the impreMedia-Latino Decisions data shows Latinos overwhelmingly supported Elizabeth Warren by a record margin, 86 percent for Elizabeth Warren to 14 percent for Brown and the Latino vote is what decisively put Warren over the top,” says Latino Decisions political scientist Matt Barreto.

New Mexico went blue in this election, with 77 percent of Latinos voting for Obama and 21 percent for Romney.

Latinos overwhelmingly said jobs and the economy as well as immigration were top issues for them. ”Obama’s re-election marks a new beginning for politics, in a year where non-minority states went overwhelmingly for Romney and still lost, the era of extremism is knocking on death’s door. The GOP in states like Arizona and Texas should heed this message well or follow the pathway to irrelevance that is the South,” says Stephen Nuño, political science professor at Northern Arizona University and an NBC Latino contributor.

“The enthusiasm of Latino voters in this election reflects not only support for Obama and his policies, but dislike for the policies of Romney and the GOP,” says Cristina Beltran, a professor of cultural and social analysis at New York University.


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To: NVDave

That is and was a pipe dream. Eventually Republicans won’t even be able to win Texas.


41 posted on 11/06/2012 11:31:54 PM PST by Silver Sabre
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To: NVDave

Well, for years, I’ve heard all this crap about how great Reagan was, how bad bush was....

Reagan opened the door in a big way for illegals.....

Hey, since Clinton, how many non whites have come here?

They are all voting age now....


42 posted on 11/06/2012 11:32:05 PM PST by Professional
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To: dfwgator

Rove/Bush in Texas in 1998 won the MAJORITY of Latino votes.

At what cost?

At the total embarrassing cost of face to the Texas Democrats, who havent won a statewide race for 14 years since.


43 posted on 11/06/2012 11:32:10 PM PST by WOSG (REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMA. He stole AmericaÂ’s promise!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I invite you all to read the vdare.com website. It has excellent commentary on the demographic question, ethnic identity politics and immigration issues. It is much more reliable than what you’ll read in Mainstream GOP sources.


44 posted on 11/06/2012 11:33:15 PM PST by River Hawk
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To: Tainan

[ So...”Latinos” are the new “Black”...it just gets weirder and weirder]

I think this Latino Decisions is exaggerating the numbers. Many groups will want to take credit and reap the rewards. Minority groups vote in a bloc when they are downtrodden immigrants. But in time they achieve some success, begin to accumulate some wealth and climb the ladder. At that point they can go their own way politically. Excluding the constituents of big city political machines, the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Germans, Scots-Irish, etc. no longer base their vote on ethnic identity. They have mostly integrated into the mainstream.


45 posted on 11/06/2012 11:33:45 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

We can all look forward to looking what happened to California happening to the rest of the country. Nevada and New Mexico are already there.


46 posted on 11/06/2012 11:34:14 PM PST by Silver Sabre
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To: NVDave

Oh, but wait! I’m originally from a large Irish Catholic enclave. They reliably voted 80% Dem for years, but it’s slowly trended (over the last twenty years) to about 50/50.

Did I mention that these people came over in the late 1800’s? So, after ten generations or so we should be just fine!


47 posted on 11/06/2012 11:34:21 PM PST by garandgal
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To: tennmountainman

“I want to take your job. And send the money back to Metico, says the illegal. Decades of illegal immigration, along with the ever growing takers
Have formed a coalition that will be hard to beat on a national level.
Simple fact.”
__________________________________________________________________________________

The forcible removal of Hispanic illegal aliens MUST begin now. Texas ONLY went 57% for Romney. If the current resident illegals in Texas are converted to voters (which
is Ozero’s plan), Texas will be lost as a reliably red
state.

A removal plan like that, of course, could ONLY happen in a sovereign and independent Texas. If this does not happen Texas WILL be lost in 20 years. We will be overwhelmed
demographically and ONLY Hispanic candidates will win the
Governor’s office and higher state offices, with Caucasians
being able to only keep some local pockets.

Its coming. Like a freight train.


48 posted on 11/06/2012 11:34:35 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (I am become Barry... destroyer of wealth)
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To: Homer1
It worked for different ethnic blocks because they wanted to be Americans. Things are different now. They're not going to be assimilated. They will simply become another racialist constituency and we will slide further into Balkanization.

For years Frank Luntz claimed that any day now, there was going to be an emerging black conservatism because blacks "agreed with us" on the "social issues." No. They don't. Not enough to affect a vote that is entirely driven by racialist identity politics, regardless of how much they may disagree with specific issues. Frank hasn't made that claim since 2008. You should give up on it, too.

49 posted on 11/06/2012 11:34:51 PM PST by FredZarguna ("Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc," is no way to reason through life, son.)
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To: River Hawk

I recommend people check out that website as well.


50 posted on 11/06/2012 11:35:25 PM PST by Silver Sabre
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Steve Sailer:

Romney lost by moderate margins in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Among Great Lakes States, he won Indiana and lost by a lot in Illinois.

Hispanics and Asians aren't all that important in this swing region: it's basically pre-1965 white and black America. And Romney just didn't appeal enough on manufacturing and jobs in that part of the country. How does the 2009 Auto Bailout sound as the key to the Electoral College in 2012?


51 posted on 11/06/2012 11:36:20 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The Jewish vote was 30% GOP.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-romney-did-relative-to-mccain.html


52 posted on 11/06/2012 11:37:48 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
This election could possibly be the last reflecting Caucasians in any type of power position in this country, and do not think for one instant that the south of the border types and Negroes will be one tenth as nice to Caucasians as we were to them for during the existence of our Country.

In less than a decade we will lose our Constitution, our rights, our liberties, and we will be a third world hellhole like Mexico City of Mogadishu.

53 posted on 11/06/2012 11:38:30 PM PST by OldMissileer
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To: NeverForgetBataan

The desire for cheap illegal is now a national security threat.


54 posted on 11/06/2012 11:40:32 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: NVDave

The Catholic Church has been railing about the HHS Mandate and the Obama administration (at least at my church, anyway). But, apparently, some people are ignoring everything they hear in church and just voting for “more free stuff.”


55 posted on 11/06/2012 11:41:26 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: OldArmy52
Our future? Look at the various African Countries. Corrupt, incompetent, oppressive....

Yes look at South Africa where they are doing a genocide of whites which the media hides as the hides benghazi gate from Americans. THAT’s where we are headed and the white liberals like Chrissy mathews, Gov Christie, and all the liberal repoterettes on TV, will be strung up as they are doing in South Africa.

56 posted on 11/06/2012 11:42:36 PM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: WOSG

It’s nice to be optimistic but none of it matters. They only want free stuff. That’s it. Nothing else matters. Anybody who gives them free stuff gets their vote. Doesn’t matter if more of them are unemployed now than four years ago. Race doesn’t matter as long as the government check keeps coming. The only way the GOP can compete in any substantial way is to get into a bidding war with the Democrats much like the Caesars bribed the Roman legions for the Imperial throne.


57 posted on 11/06/2012 11:43:24 PM PST by garbanzo (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine)
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To: NVDave
Explain to me the Rove/Bush doctrine that these people were going to vote Republican and were so conservative, hmmm?

Rove/Bush never thought about by-passing Congress to push the Rove/Bush Doctrine through. They followed the law to pass a bill that allows others to break it and it failed as it should have.

The real question is why John Boehner allowed Obama to create his own immigration laws (among many other laws / actions he took without going through Congress)

58 posted on 11/06/2012 11:44:22 PM PST by tsowellfan
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To: OldArmy52
Our future? Look at the various African Countries. Corrupt, incompetent, oppressive....

Yes look at South Africa where they are doing a genocide of whites which the media hides as the media hides benghazi gate from Americans. THAT’s where we are headed and the white liberals like Chrissy mathews, Gov Christie, and all the liberal repoterettes on TV, will be strung up as they are doing in South Africa.

59 posted on 11/06/2012 11:45:36 PM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Here is a reasoning behind voting for Obama that some members of “minorities” subscribe to...

Obama is not a white guy. (Forgetting that his mother is white.) Therefore, he knows about struggles that minorities go through in America...He will look out for minorities...

How could GOP respond to that?

I actually saw a clip of an Asian gentleman saying that to a reporter...That gentleman was mostly likely a recent immigrant. I don’t think he’s alone in his thinking.


60 posted on 11/06/2012 11:46:09 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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