¡No Más! – The GOP Latino Vote
Governor Romney’s quest to win the Latino vote, may not be that realistic, and probably will not happen.
Republicans have been steadily losing ground to Democrats among Latinos. After George W. Bush won 40% of the Latino vote in 2004, Arizona Sen. John McCain, who once championed comprehensive immigration reform, won just 31% of Latinos in 2008.
This year, the Republican primary debate has clearly taken its toll. A Fox News Latino poll released in early March showed the erosion of Latino support for the GOP: 70% of Latino voters backed Obama, compared with 14% supporting Romney. Four in five Latino voters who backed Obama in 2008 said they would support him in 2012, but those who had supported McCain split their support between the two parties.
Courting the Latino vote is extremely difficult given that the Supreme Court is listening to arguments regarding Arizona’s extreme immigration law that allows police to detain anyone – that means anyone – suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
Support for the Arizona law has grown since it was signed. A Fox News poll released Friday showed more than 65 percent of U.S. voters approve of the law, compared to 31 percent who oppose it. The measure is especially popular with Republicans, who support it by 84 percent.
But the law remains decidedly unpopular among Hispanics — the fastest growing voter bloc in the country, and a group that Republicans publicly acknowledge they need to make inroads with if they are going to win the White House in November.
That adds up to a balancing act for Romney, who will face questions about the law as he tries to drum up support with Hispanics without alienating his party’s base.
As a former pollster for Senator John Kerry said, “There’s no play in the immigration debate for Republicans — the states that it would move people are already in the R column.”
THIS COMMENT WAS MADE BRAVELY WHILE ON NOTICE!!!
clearly the problem for the GOP is that there IS a latino vote. If they can suppress it enough (excluding the Cubans in Florida) it wont matter.
Given the GOPs stated strategy of putting religious African Americans against gays, I’m surprise that they haven’t tried to find suitable enemies for Latinos to hate on.
I think the Old boy white republican WASPs are the enemies of:
African-Americans
Latinos
Gays
Asians
Immigrants
Muslims
Catholics
wait – isnt that about everyone???
oh, I forgot…
Hindus
Sikhs
Native Americans
Indians
but wait, there’s more…….
its like the Ginsu knife add…..always more
One might argue they’ve pitted Latinos (majority Catholic) against women via the birth control debate. Of course, that debate pitted Rome against its own institutions.
even Better – they pitted the pro-lifers gainst the anti0immigration folks
to whit – Nebraska bill – the GOP in NE wanted to cut off pre-natal care to undocumeneted pregnant immigrants
How stupid is that – they will be American citizens when they are born – so if they’re are issues during the pregnancy they will not be discovered
therefore costing the Government even MORE money in the long run
However, this bill was pushed by pro-life but anti-immigrant GOP state repos and senators
now THERE was a cannard!!
it pitted the pro-lifers against the anti-immigrant people.
good times
WOW – I forgot the big one the GOP is against
W O M E N
makes up about half the population of the US
put all those groups together and we have……
the GOP with a forever shrinking base…..if we just wait long enough they will go the way of the Shakers and un-sex themselves out of existance…
Good times……still 🙂