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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What a load.
The GOP should concentrate on getting out its base. In an off-year, turnout will be about half that of a presidential year. Hispanics will to join that effort will be rewarded.
The voting US Jews of 25 years ago are not the same as today. Peace; Diversity; GLBT; Abortion; MultiCulturalism; and Environment are their main concerns today.
A kind of tipping point has been reached. Too many hispanics have bought the idea that illegal aliens is a meaningless term.
What a farce. How can drift from the GOP? They were never there.
How did Janet Napolitano (D) get elected governor of conservative Arizona in 2002?
Yes, it true that the Hispanics/Latino are important and can make or break an election; but giving the fact that illegal immigration is about to bankrupt California; killing innocent American; I don’t believed upholding the rule of laws is wrong. As Republican we need to stand on our principles and value; win or lose we need to stand for what we believed in; there is no point of pandering or please the entire the Hispanics community when you know you are promising the wrong thing to them like continued of illegal immigration.
It stands to reason as more Americans drop off the rolls of tax payers and become tax users that they would register Democrat.
Exactly. The hispanics/latinos vote Dumocrap like it’s encoded in their DNA.
Let’s cut the BS: what the hispanics really want is to make America a Spanish-speaking country with no borders.
Oh no!
Next the GOP will lose the peace activists and gun control nuts!
This American of Mexican descent has never voted for a democrat for any office. I don’t plan on breaking that 29 year tradition this year....some in my family are barking moonbats, some are just like me....I reckon thats called assimilation...
I’ve never understood why the GOP would go after the “hispanic vote” when they have only ever gotten 33%. Add 30 million illegal new voters and see what they get.
Add to that list, wiping Israel off the face of the map, murdering Jews, oh and instituting world-wide Sharia law.
There are three Cuban women in my company along with one Puerto Rican woman, a Brazilian woman who also runs her own cleaning company and a girl from Portugal in her late 20s and having known them for some time I can tell you they're all rock-ribbed Republicans and do not like and did not vote for Obama. A couple still have their McCain/Palin bumper stickers on their cars. They are especially sensitive to the immigration issue, because all of them either struggled to escape Communist oppression in Cuba and respect their freedom or went through the normal, legal immigration channels. They are all against the current illegal immigration that's occuring at the border and freely express their anger against the politics of the Democrat party that sanction and support it. So I can tell you first hand, not all Hispanics are automatic Democrat voters at the polls.
The WSJ is all for open borders. Expect more of this ‘sky is falling’ nonsense until their editorial board employment is open to all comers, legal or not.
Out of the 47 Million how many do you really think vote Republican? And how many of those (if this poll is correct) will switch and vote Democrats in 2010 and 2012? Maybe a million at best. My point is, a Jewish swing to the Right could offset higher than normal Hispanic votes going Democrat.
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