Posted on 06/04/2010 10:01:10 PM PDT by Steelfish
Hispanic Voters Drift From GOP
By MIRIAM JORDAN
LOS ANGELES — California Hispanics who registered to vote since the last midterm election are less likely to be Republican than those who registered just four years earlier, according to an analysis of party affiliation released Friday.
The report by the nonpartisan National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, or Naleo, also shows Hispanics—the fastest-growing voter bloc—are increasingly prone to register as independent, mirroring the trend among all voters.
Among California Latinos who registered between the 2002 and 2006 midterm elections, 23% were Republican, 50% were Democrats and 23% declined to state. More recently, GOP affiliation among Latinos has begun to slip. For those who registered since the 2006 midterm vote, only 16% are Republicans, 56% are Democrats and 24% declined to state an affiliation. For non-Latino voters, the figures are 24% Republican, 44% Democrat and 26% independent since 2006.
Naleo officials and political analysts said the shift could be accelerated by Republican campaign rhetoric championing a get-tougher approach toward illegal immigrants. The top two candidates in California's GOP gubernatorial primary, for example, have courted conservative voters by flooding the airwaves with ads calling for tighter borders and stricter laws.
"Even longtime Republican Latinos are unhappy with this emotional rhetoric," said Lionel Sosa, a media strategist on the Hispanic vote for seven GOP presidents. "Republicans feel they have to go way to the right on immigration to win the primaries. If they want to get elected, they'll need the Hispanic vote."
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Please. This is a joke. I live in California...they almost all vote Rat anyway.
“what the GOP needs to do is work with increasing the Jewish vote”
What a lost cause! they disagree with the GOP on everything. besides they are only 2% of the population
The problem is Jews represent only about three percent of the voting public (and not increasing) while Hispanics are about twelve percent and growing. So appealing to Hispanics makes more political sense then trying to sway Jewish voters. Bush II got about forty percent of Hispanics in the 2004 election while McCain got a lot less than that a little over twenty percent in 2008.
“Miguel Perez, President of Cal-State Northridge’s MEChA chapter said, “The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/is_america_conquered_when_the.html
Aztlan Rising Video
http://www.helpsaveamerica.net/index.php/reconquista
The GOP getting a hispanic vote, is the excuse for Rinos taking over the party. We need two socialist parties to “compete” to see who can give Mexico and her peasants the most free stuff.
Rinos controlled the Repbulican party in the past under the premise we needed to get the “Black vote” with GOP socialism and race preferences in competition with the Marxists. Yeah, that worked itself into a permanent minority until Reagan came along and suggested freedom.
a lot of republicans voted for her over matt salmon
Hispanics are not a monolithic group, but the majority , Like blacks who are social conservative support a Democratic Party that offers a welfare program that no Republican administration can match.
Getting support from “legal” immigrants for the immigration laws should be a slam dunk for the GOP
Why would people who went through the process support a policy that allows cheaters to get the same benefit that had to bust their tail to get?
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