Keep Going Republicans!

Posted on December 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm by JM Ashby

You’re doing great!

Months of extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric from Mitt Romney and his GOP rivals seems to be taking its toll, with Hispanic voters going to President Obama in a landslide according to a new Pew Hispanic Center poll released today. Despite overwhelming disapproval of his administration’s handling of illegal immigrants, President Obama still leads Mitt Romney 68 percent to 23 percent among Hispanics. Romney recently told TIME Magazine that he wants “to do as well as [he] possibly could” among Hispanic voters; however, today’s poll shows Romney is highly unlikely to reach the record 40 percent share of the Hispanic vote George W. Bush attracted in 2004 and that he may well do far worse than the 31 percent share John McCain took in 2008.

68 percent to 23 percent among Hispanics. And this is coming from the more “safe” and “electable” Mitt Romney. 23 percent. We’re not even looking at the poll numbers for a Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry character, which one can only assume are worse.

It’s no coincidence that McCain’s numbers were lower that Bush’s, and Romney’s numbers are worse than McCain’s. America is becoming increasingly diverse, and that trend isn’t going to end anytime soon.

Suffice to say what happens in Iowa will not stay in Iowa, and all the pandering in the world may win you the Hawkeye state, but you lose America in the process.

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  • txvoodoo

    And the GOP knows this – which is why, in states everywhere, they’re working to suppress the minority vote.

  • joseph2004

    Yet, you have to wonder. If Illegal Immigration is taken out of the picture, what is it that Hispanics have to really gripe about, and what is it that Obama has done for them to keep them close?
    Nada.
    Suing Arizona and other such moves were pandering political moves, but Obama knows that immigration is a poison pill for him, especially because the majority of Americans aren’t cheerful about illegal immigration or amnesty – or illegality of most any kind for that matter. Arizona got the support of a majority of Americans over the SB1070 law (>70% from one poll if I remember right). That included a fair number of liberals.
    Is he pandering to both sides, what with all these deportations and business place employee audits?

    What do Hispanics see in Obama and democrats that benefits them? Except as an occasional political tool for bashing red states, immigration is nothing Obama wants any part of.

    If you go over to HuffPost’s “LatinoVoices” section, you see all sorts of articles written by common everyday “Latinos” who seem desperate to talk about how normal they are in every way – they go to school, raise families, go to college, become business people, scientists, politicians – and so on. The biggest problem many of them seem to have isn’t that they aren’t typical Americans in every way with all the same opportunities; it’s that they aren’t being recognized doing all these great things as Latinos. Many of them you get the sense feel they’re supposed to be describing their tougher-than-everyone-else lives but after all is said and done don’t quite know how being normal in every way qualifies.

    Does the Hispanic community in the US think keeping illegal immigration at the top of its list of priorities (ie., support of it and of illegal immigrants) will be a winning cause ?
    Nope, that can’t be a winning strategy.