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Obama: Choice for Latinos in 2012 won't be hard
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 23, 2012

Posted on 02/23/2012 9:20:24 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling Latino voters their choice in the election "will not be that difficult" because he's the only one who backs comprehensive immigration reform.

In a reference to Mitt Romney, Obama says the GOP's "leading candidate" would even veto the Dream Act, which gives a pathway to citizenship to children here illegally if they attend college or join the military.

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1 posted on 02/23/2012 9:20:27 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I guess we’ll find out...I would bet his contraception stance isn’t going to be a winner in the Hispanic voters eye.


2 posted on 02/23/2012 9:21:50 AM PST by MNlurker
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To: Free ThinkerNY

instdems


3 posted on 02/23/2012 9:25:01 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: FrankR

Hispanics will vote for their government goodies like any good minority in America.


4 posted on 02/23/2012 9:29:46 AM PST by bigdirty
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Screw em.


5 posted on 02/23/2012 9:41:24 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Republicans have no political strategy in this area either.

Their last attempt was amnesty and that was a disaster for them.


6 posted on 02/23/2012 9:41:29 AM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: sickoflibs

There are no Illegal Aliens in the Armed Forces. You can’t do a criminal background check on someone who can’t prove who they are.


7 posted on 02/23/2012 9:44:16 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Hispanic/Latinos voted in 2008 67% for Obama and 31% for McCain, who supported comprehensive immigration reform (McCain-Kennedy)i.e., amnesty. It didn't help McCain.

In 2008, if John McCain had received 60 percent [vice 55 percent] of the “white vote,” he would have won even if Barack Obama had received the entire Hispanic vote. The Reps would be better served to go after the non-Hispanic white vote.

8 posted on 02/23/2012 9:45:21 AM PST by kabar
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To: MNlurker; bigdirty
RE :”I would bet his contraception stance isn’t going to be a winner in the Hispanic voters eye.

Really, they will vote against what they think is FREE contraceptives for themselves?

They have been taught that Democracy is about voting yourself more free goodies.

9 posted on 02/23/2012 9:46:30 AM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: massgopguy
RE :”There are no Illegal Aliens in the Armed Forces. You can’t do a criminal background check on someone who can’t prove who they are.

Every-so often a story pops up about an illegal alien soldier who died in Afghanistan. Heck, didnt Republicans oppose a bill that would make US soldiers citizens even if they were illegal?

10 posted on 02/23/2012 9:50:44 AM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: massgopguy
Nonsense. Illegals have served in the Military under assumed names. As if the Fed does proper backgrounds these days. ie President.
11 posted on 02/23/2012 10:01:12 AM PST by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: MNlurker

“I would bet his contraception stance isn’t going to be a winner in the Hispanic voters eye.”

I wouldn’t count on that doing much at this point, but I do love the way he assumes that Hispanics are OK with high unemployment and inflation. To the extent Hispanics are still Catholic, they seem to have taken a lot of the positions American Catholics have taken (”lay ministers” distributing Communion, low Mass attendance and such).


12 posted on 02/23/2012 10:03:08 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

latino=communist... all evidence points to this.

LLS


13 posted on 02/23/2012 10:09:25 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
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To: Theoria; sickoflibs; massgopguy

Let’s put it this way. It is illegal for illegal aliens to serve in our armed forces. They are not eligible to serve.


14 posted on 02/23/2012 10:35:45 AM PST by kabar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama seems to like to do what is known in the sales business as The Presumptive Close.

You have probably thrown many such guys out of your office and off of your doorstep.


15 posted on 02/23/2012 10:46:49 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bigdirty

You are so wrong. Hispanics love this country just as you and I do. They will vote for the person they think will make the best President and the best leader of this country. It is their country too and he will be their president.


16 posted on 02/23/2012 11:17:40 AM PST by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: sickoflibs

This happens all the time. They are either granted citizenship posthumously for their families benefit or they are granted citizenship when their tour in the military is done.


17 posted on 02/23/2012 11:19:48 AM PST by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
...because he's the only one who backs comprehensive immigration reform.
Thanks Free ThinkerNY.


18 posted on 02/26/2012 3:24:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, if he’s talking about the illegals - they shouldn’t be voting anyway. If he’s talking about Americans of hispanic descent, they don’t want the illegals here any more than the rest of us Americans do.


19 posted on 02/26/2012 3:26:12 PM PST by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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