GOP OUTREACH TO HISPANICS PAYS OFF! (FOX)

FOX News Exit Polling ^ | 11/6/2002 | LS

[LS]

Exit polling done for FOX News found that GOP outreach efforts to Hispanics was the difference in key races.

In Florida, Jeb Bush won 50% of all non-Cuban Hispanic voters!!! (This is an astounding number, especially once you include Cubans)

In Texas, Rick Perry won 35% of the Hispanic vote despite running against a Dem Hispanic! Pataki won 30% of the Hispanic vote in NY!

These are simply incredible numbers, and validate Bush's strong insistence on GOP outreach to Hispanics in both the 2000 election and since. With Hispanic support like this in Texas and Florida. Many here denouced these efforts, saying that Bush could not make an impact and, essentially, that it was hopeless. HERE IS THE REALITY Bush has taken away large parts of TWO key Dem support groups, Hispanics and Jews, and, in the process, made nearly irrelevant the black vote! Now, the only chance blacks have to make an impact is to switch parties and become swing voters for the GOP in key districts!

[eureka!]

This is huge and needs to be built upon. The Rats know it and Terry M. said as much today. W knows it too. And he will act on it. Watch...

[Exton1]

What about the States that have a high number of illegal aliens. In California with 8 million illegals Republicans lost. Simon, may have won if the illegals did not vote.

[SwinneySwitch]

Hispanics realize their values are more in line with the Republicanos than with the DemonRats.

Viva la Revolucion!

[LS]

Do you have any information that any illegals voted in CA? You might want to pass that on to the GOP. I don't think illegals voting was the problem. Try Simon's pathetic campaign.

By the way, all you anti-Hispanis better get off this kick of raising the illegal immigrant spectre every time someone raises this issue. It is just as bad, on your part, as it is for the lefties to act as though illegal immigration is not a problem.

[livius]

This is very important!

Illegals are a whole different ballgame, and LatAm immigrants who have gone to the trouble to become citizens are not thrilled by them, either.

That said, in the U.S. now, people who are theoretically classed as "Hispanics" can have names like González - or names like McCarthy, Smith, or Stern. There are many people (Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Mexicans) who are very Spanish-identified but completely part of American culture, or so intermarried that nobody knows or cares who is what.

And there are many other Hispanic immigrants who are here because they want a stable, non-corrupt culture where they can thrive on the basis of their incredible industriousness and energy.

The Republicans should go after Hispanics. My daughter lives (and is a cop) in Denver. They have tons of "Nationals" (mostly illegal Mexicans with outstanding warrants, who probably all "vote" Dem). But they also have lots of neighborhoods that have been completely reinvigorated by Mexican Americans who have taken over crummy little houses in former slums, completely renovated them, and sit outside at night drinking cerveza and keeping the creeps away.

[Kensei]

The Hispanic population in CA is,for the most part, conservative, patriotic, hardworking, Catholic and law abiding. While the state has seen an influx of illegals, these folks are "temporaries" and soon return home.

As times goes by, this ethnic group will constitute a very important segment of the mainstream of the state and my money says that they will be most confortable with the conservative wing of the Republican party.

[ctonious]

This is indeed a wild impossible scheme coming to fruition. When Bush spoke of it, all we focused on was the negative element of Hispanic advocacy of unfettered immigration, legal and otherwise. That is STILL a problem.

But the plus side is a powerful coalition that counteracts the automatic votes of the unemancipated Plantation Democrats.

[RightWhale]

Good. Keep on doing that.

[eureka!]

Well said. Hardworking, religious Hispanics (as you define them) are a huge asset to this country and Republican in nature. They are more than welcome in my book and, I believe, will not succumb to the shopworn race baiting of the Rats. . The illegals, of whatever stripe, are not. Apples and oranges. W will bring them in and they will stay in. He truly does not care about ethnicity or color, as most Freepers, I believe. OTOH, the Rats can only survive by keeping the hate alive. They are having a problem doing that with this president, and it is a wonderful thing to behold....

[sinkspur]

In Texas, Rick Perry won 35% of the Hispanic vote despite running against a Dem Hispanic!

THIS IS HUGE!!!

Bush won 39% of Hispanics in Texas when he ran for President, so Perry did almost as well. I suspect that most of these Hispanics voted straight Republican, which carried Cornyn over Kirk and helped bring down John Sharp and give David Dewhurst the powerful Lt. Governor job.

Most Hispanics just want to work, to have a shot at the dream, and to take care of their families. And they want to be secure.

Hispanics like George W. Bush. He speaks Spanish, he never slams Hispanics or blames "minorities" for the problems in the country, and GW likes them!

Folks, people buy from people they like. Hispanics are buying what George W. is selling them because they are simpatico.

[dennisw]

Get real. Except for Cubans these numbers are not anything to write home about. And with the Cubans the new generation born here are not so solidly Republican.

[Dems_R_Losers]

It's all part of Karl Rove's grand strategy to make Republicans the majority party for the next 50-75 years. We cannot put the immigration toothpaste back in the tube, folks. These people are here to stay, they want to be Americans, and the vast majority of them are hard-working, God-fearing people that should be Republicans. In a generation or two they will all be assimilated and people will wonder what all the fuss was about in the early 2000s. George P. Bush will probably be America's first Hispanic president!

Thse numbers are hilarious after listening to Terry McAwful braying today about how Republicans did not make a dent in the HIspanic or black vote. Har!

[Cacique]

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[Dems_R_Losers]

I remember reading that Hillary was booed at a Hispanic parade during the campaign, while many people were waving Viva Pataki! signs.

Gray Davis only won by about 400,000 votes so I doubt there were a million illegals voting for him. Davis pissed off many Hispanics by vetoing the driver's license bill and the farm worker bill. I imagine their turnout was way off from 2000. Simon ran ads on the Hispanic TV channels, as Bush did in Florida.

[deport]

Do you have any data from anyone with exit pollling information... I know that VNS was judged unreliable yesterday as far as calling races and that some others did their on polling. It would be interesting to see some of the data....

[Bogolyubski]

You make some interesting points. Like most conservatives, I have no problem with folks who come to this country legally and work their butts off for a better life for themselves and their families. In fact, people of that description are a genuine asset to the nation and are often some of the finest Americans around. My real concern is with the Republicans foolishly trying to pander to "hispanics" (a ridiculous phony category created by the RINO Nixon Justice Dept., BTW) by doing nothing about all of the illegals (who frequently pay no taxes - since they are paid in cash - yet receive welfare benefits, send their kids to public schools at taxpayer expense, and even vote in elections - corrupting the election process itself) and continuing to support the racial spoils system called "affirmative action." If, by "outreach" you are simply informing the hard-working decent pro-family immigrant-citizens that the Republicans are the ones who really support policies that are in their best interests, then I think it's a great idea. On the other hand, if you're going to try and out-pander the RATS, we part company - because doing so undermines the very priciples that set us apart from them. What good is it for someone to come here to benefit from "a stable, non-corrupt culture" only to have it undermined by a complete breakdown in the rule of law (the immigration system as it currently stands)? One of the sternest critics of the failure of the Clinton-Bush INS is Michelle Malkin - daughter of legal immigrants from the Phillipines.

[mlmr]

Bush has taken away large parts of TWO key Dem support groups, Hispanics and Jews,

Any statistics about the Jews and this election?

[Cicero]

We expected it in Texas and Florida, because both Bushes have carefully prepared the way for years. California is a different matter. Pete Wilson offended Hispanics and drove them to the Democrats, and the Republicans out there have done little to get them back. I think that Simon might have appealed to them, as a fellow Catholic and a right-to-lifer. Moreover, Gray Davis offended liberal Hispanics with his recent veto. But there was still probably a lot of ground to overcome. I haven't seen the numbers, but I'll bet they were a lot lower than in Florida and Texas.

[livius]

Agree with ya! I don't think anybody should pander.

Most legal immigrants in this country got here at the cost of a lot of suffering and are trying to succeed in the U.S. - on U.S. terms. Republicans have got to make it clear that this is encouraged, and that, in fact, we all got here the same way: looking for a better life.

Most Hispanics I know, btw, hate being lumped in with the "underclass," which is what Dems always do.

Republicans should simply lump them in with "Americans" - with the same little ethnic touches one might give to making Irish or Jewish or Chinese Americans get all misty-eyed thinking about Grandma - and stop treating Hispanics like people going nowhere and in need of a handout. A tax break, yes, but a handout, never.