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To: Fantasywriter

Two examples of how some Latinos viewed the Obama is ineligible movement.

“Birthers/Latinos shouldn’t mix.”
http://www.beinglatino.us/uncategorized/birthers-and-latinos-shouldn%E2%80%99t-mix/

“Birthers to Obama: Show Us Your Papers”
http://www.newstaco.com/2011/05/02/birthers-to-obama-show-us-your-papers/

The following is a comment on a political science research paper entitled “Why Do Asian Americans Identify As Democrats? Testing Theories of Social Exclusion and Group Solidarity”.
“One possible reason that Asian-Americans have been such strong supporters of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 is that they perceive more commonalities between themselves and Obama than they do with Obama’s detractors. As the experiment results showed, Asian-Americans who believe that their American citizenship has been questioned are more likely to identify strongly with the Democratic Party. The Birther movement, which promoted conspiracy theories arguing that Barack Obama is not an American citizen, is strongly associated with the Republican Party, and basically nonexistent in the Democratic Party. Since Asian-American tend to be pissed off when their citizenship and their “Americanness” is questioned, the Birther movement could be a major reason why Asian-Americans have strongly supported Barack Obama.”
http://www.quora.com/Why-do-Asian-Americans-tend-to-vote-Democratic


Obama was faced with a huge demographic problem in running for reelection, his own polling data showed that he was going to get smaller percentages of the white vote and the black vote. We now know in hindsight that his white voters totals decreased in 2012 by 4% and his share of the black vote decreased by 2%.
He was able to make up for those decreases with increases in the Latino and Asian American segments of the electorate. In 2012 he increased his share of the Latino vote by 5%(66% to 71%) and his share of the Asian vote by 11% (62%-73%).
In both of those ethnic enclaves Obama successfully used his identification with recent immigrants to his advantage.
We all know that Obama is a disciple of Saul Alinsky and Rules For Radicals. In that book Alinski advises “take what your opponents think is your weakness and make it your strength.” The Obama campaign never dealt with ineligibility challenges from a defensive position, they used it to attack conservatives as racist, vindictive and unhinged.


205 posted on 09/11/2015 4:40:11 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: Nero Germanicus

This is just more of your leftist trash. It is all speculation: leftists believing what they want to believe.

Btw, how much of Obama’s ‘12 vote was due to fraud? Until the widespread corruption associated with Obama’s ‘victoria’s is exhaustively investigated and analyzed, the leftists’ speculation and daydreams are meaningless.


206 posted on 09/11/2015 5:02:28 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Nero Germanicus

Oh btw, you do realize this entire post is no more than a riff on the putrid leftist meme that conservatives are racist bigots?

From you I would expect no less.


207 posted on 09/11/2015 5:08:16 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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