Posted on 07/17/2015 5:48:30 AM PDT by jimbo123
From all appearances, Jeb Bush has the best chance among Republican primary contenders to win the Latino vote in 2016. He supports legal status for undocumented immigrants. He speaks fluid if not fluent Spanish. He's married to a Mexican woman with whom he's raised three bicultural and bilingual Latino children. In Florida, a heavily Latino state, Bush won two terms as governor. He's clearly rejected the anti-immigrant comments of Donald Trump . He's done more than any other candidate to appeal to Latinos, which is why he might be surprised to read the latest Univision poll saying that he won't win their vote any more than anti-immigrant white-guy candidate Mitt Romney did in 2012.
According to the poll, Jeb Bush would receive 27 percent of the Latino vote (the poll has a margin of +/- 2.62 percent) in a matchup against Hillary Clinton . Margins aside, that is an uncanny number: Mitt Romney won only 27 percent of the Latino vote in 2012, according to a post-election analysis by Pew .
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Aww, and I thought Jeb was going to offer as much free stuff to them as Hitlery was.
Ha! Ha! Great news!
Good, maybe he can stop with the Mexican act.
What an embarrassment for this nation and one of many under these clowns...
It’s naive to think he cares about lat vote
And I just saw something that said Donald Trump is as popular now as Herman Cain was at this time during the last cycle. Nothing means anything at this point.
“And I just saw something that said Donald Trump is as popular now as Herman Cain was at this time”
That’s why I was frustrated this idiot quit because of the infidelity stuff. All he had to was say “I;m sorry. I cheated on my wife. Now we’re good.” Weak. Good thing he dropped out because if there were bigger issues, he would’ve folded like an accordion.
Now this is something the other candidates can use; it is legitimate to point out to their supporters in a positive way this stat.
I think hispanics will support someone who improves their lives through results. Regardless of their stance on immigration.
Granting legal status talk is just a sign that they (the candidate) doesn’t have anything to offer as proof that will and can do other things.
I wonder if maybe Americans of Latino decent and LEGAL Latino immigrants have maybe grown tired of illegal aliens jumping to the head of the line, courtesy of the Federal Government. Same as the rest of us.
Because any Democrat candidate would be more likly to allow fraud, crime and access to the US Treasury and ballot box.
Did you know for illegals the then Democrat congress made it OK and not a crime for illegala first three incidents of document fraud?
Non illegals go right to jail on any fraud or document tampering.
Just because you speak Spanish doesn’t mean Latino’s are going to like you. They didn’t learn a thing from Romney.
The Republican Party reminds me of the US Olympic Committee in 1980 who told Brooks who to pick for the team, saying “this is always how we’ve done it.”
This is what happens when old dogs won’t learn new tricks. When that happens, it’s time to shoot the dog.
Latinos love free stuff. Check out the numbers in San Antonio. The myth that they are coming to take the grubby jobs Americans won’t do has roots in our pre-Socialist days.
Now they are coming to sign up for all the benefits that politicians promise to give them, funded by our confiscated tax dollars, of course. They don’t pay income taxes, with much their income paid in cash to be wired by Western Union to Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, etc.
Why would illegals vote for a republican when the democrats give them all the freebies.
If Jesus Christ ran on the Republican ticket he wouldn’t get any more than 27% of the Latino vote.
Republican candidates need to focus on getting out their own base and as many Indies as possible. Blacks and Hispanics vote Democrat.
Speaking Spanish will not counter the 24 hour a day Democrat propaganda the Latino’s get on their Spanish TV and Radio. It makes Bush III look pandering and condesending. Many respect Trump because is a strong Leader who doesn’t give a fig for illegals and their crimes. In the end Trump may well do better than Jebster in the Barrios.
Say what you will about Mitt Romney, but the guy is highly successful outside the world of politics, something that Jebbie can never say.
I’d love to see Trump, Cruz or Walker stand in front of Latino organization’s audience and open with:
“Cuando estoy en México, hablo su lengua como muestra de respeto para el país y su gente . . . (Bing translation)** and continue in English “. . . and when I am in the United States, I do the same.”
** “When I’m in Mexico, I speak their language as a sign of respect for the country and its people”
You post: I think hispanics will support someone who improves their lives through results.
Here’s the money post “hispanics will support someone who improves their lives through results”
“SOMEONE WHO IMPROVES.....THEIR.....LIVES!”
How about them improving their own damn lives because I sure as hell am tired of having over 28% of my yearly earning ripped from my hand to IMPROVE THEIR LIVES through income tax alone.
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