Posted on 10/17/2022 3:53:21 PM PDT by devane617
Edited on 10/17/2022 3:57:59 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
In September, we convened a group of 10 Latino voters from Texas, Florida and Arizona, a collection of Democrats, Republicans and independents who planned to vote or were open to voting for Republican candidates in this year’s midterm elections.
“Is there anything that you think the Republican Party does that is off-putting to Latino voters?” our moderator asked. “Is there anything about the way Democrats talk to or talk about the Latino community that turns off Latino voters, in your view?”
“When Trump said Mexicans were rapists — even though he probably didn’t mean all of us — it still left a bad taste in my mouth. You know, a lot of people clapped for that. So I was like, ‘OK, that’s how it is,’” one participant said.
“When the first lady referred to us as unique as breakfast tacos, that kind of stands out in my mind,” another participant said, referring to Jill Biden’s remarks this year at a conference for UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights group.
Several of them said neither party really spoke to them in a personal, informed way. Part of the problem is that there’s no one way to talk to Latino voters, because — as our participants reminded us — there’s no one typical Latino voter. “There’s a whole spectrum of Hispanics,” one participant said. And maybe the distinction between Latino voters and other voters shouldn’t be made at all: “We are Americans first,” another participant said.
They came here, most of them, to become Americans.
Never take the counsel of your enemies. The NYT?!? If they said it, it must be for another reason.
Is that REALLY what people want? That is STUPID.
How about polices that help or hurt???
If people treated their vote as a logical decision based on their analysis of the current and future outcomes they'd want to have, rather than touchy-feely celebrity worshiping, the country would be a better place.
Do they all look upon A-O-C is their hero?
That’s not what Trump said.
What you say and how it is repeated is how the game is played today. That is why so many politicians are eunuchs.
The NYT learned that trick from Goebbles
They all look and sound alike to the Rat Bubble elitists...
No, it is not worth it. They all sound stupid. They all want to be coddled and pandered to by the politicians. They all lack critical thinking abilities. They represent the average American, too uninformed to vote.
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