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To: archy
The experience of Latinos in Florida is that they're just as likely to vote Republican. I think the future of the Republican party *has* to include reaching out to the Latino vote.

here's a fun fact: don't assume that all Latinos are big on illegal immigration. I know people who went through that naturalization process who think everyone else should too and no one should get a break. Some latinos can be just as good as the gringos on the immigration issue.
28 posted on 03/16/2003 2:04:36 PM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: FreeTheHostages
The experience of Latinos in Florida is that they're just as likely to vote Republican. I think the future of the Republican party *has* to include reaching out to the Latino vote.

The experience of Latinos in Florida is that they're just as likely to vote Republican. I think the future of the Republican party *has* to include reaching out to the Latino vote.

As generally and often do I, having attended primary school in Havana and Santa Clara in Cuba. But cheapening the votes of those who earned their citizenship the hard way by offering blanket amnesty to illegal alien voters is most unlikely to produce the result you describe, and adds weight to the arguments of those who note no particular difference between the corrupt practices of the Democratic party and the Republicans.

-archy-/-

32 posted on 03/16/2003 2:14:51 PM PST by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: FreeTheHostages
here's a fun fact: don't assume that all Latinos are big on illegal immigration.

I sure don't because I know very many who are against massive immigration ---including some immigrants themselves who don't really like seeing this place looking just like the place they tried to leave. Also I think the Republican Party needs to realize that "hispanic" is kind of a fake grouping and that working middle class "hispanics" and/or conservative "hispanics" really only have the same issues that all other working middle class and/or conservatives have. When they look for "hispanic" issues to cater too, they should realize those are everyone's issues, jobs, economy, abortion, good schools, the Constitution, gun rights etc.

35 posted on 03/16/2003 2:25:38 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FreeTheHostages; archy
"The experience of the Latinos in Florida is that they're just as likely to vote Republican."

The truth of it is that 80% to 90% of Puerto Ricans voted Democrat, while the same percentages of Cubans voted Republican, effectively cancelling each other out.

Take a look at the Republican website. The Liberal programs that the Bush brothers, Karl Rove and the Republican National Committee are embracing to woo the Latino voters, that traditionally vote Democrat, are going to lose them everyone else.

If it's still true that more than 60% of American citizens of Latino descent are against illegal immigration, as indicated in recent polls, then the Republican Party isn't for them.

36 posted on 03/16/2003 2:29:22 PM PST by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
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