Posted on 09/02/2012 12:26:03 PM PDT by Steelfish
In North Carolina, Latinos Gain In Political Importance
Hector Becerra September 2
BROADWAY, N.C. — He is also, perhaps most important, not a big fan of President Obama. American-born and a son of Mexican immigrants, Jesus reaches voting age one month before this year's presidential election.
His sister Viridiana, 26, is a Raleigh-based activist on behalf of young illegal immigrants. Undocumented like another sister and her parents, she can't vote.
Viridiana struggles to understand why Jesus is bent on joining the military, and he rolls his eyes at her leftward lean, comparing her to a female Che Guevara. But come November, Jesus will cast the only ballot in his family, unenthusiastically but unequivocally, to reelect Obama — in no small part because of his sister.
"I'm more Republican in my beliefs, but I feel like by voting, I'll speak not only for myself but for my family," Jesus said in the tidy, wood-framed home he shares with his parents, girlfriend and 1-year-old daughter amid towering pines in rural Lee County.
(snip)Most of the state's roughly 800,000 Latinos can't vote because of their legal status or their age. But it's a young population in which approximately 90% of Latinos under 18 are U.S. citizens, and so every year, more can cast ballots.
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Immigrants have demographically transformed urban areas but also rural communities like Lee County, which is now almost 20% Latino. The shift could increasingly bode ill for Republican presidential candidates in this state and others, Jensen said.
"The Latino vote is one major factor for why North Carolina will maintain this newfound swing status moving forward," he said.
Most polls for North Carolina and neighboring Virginia show Obama and Mitt Romney in a dead heat. This week's convention in Charlotte, the capital, underscores the state's importance as a battleground.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Ahh, in other words they are ineligible. LATimes is lamenting that ineligible voters can't vote? Really?
Hispanics real big on gay marriage are they? Who knew?
Ras has Romney +5 in that state. LA Times is out of their gord if they think Obama is going to win NC.
And Infanticide to boot!
And Infanticide to boot!
Ummmm, NC is not a dead heat. Prediction from moi: Romney 55-45. Maybe more.No one counts the ILLEGALS...unlike the leftofascists do. El Zeerho es toast-o.
How many Congressional Seats can the Illegals create again Cripplecreek?
NC a dead heat? In the midst of a Dem landslide, with a massive Dem turnout, and an unpopular Rep president and candidate in 2008 it was a literal dead heat. 2012? Not so much.
Romney wins it, going away.
It’s nice to know that the losers that couldn’t fix their own country came to America and are now going to tell us how to run ours. That’s something to really get excited about. Where have all of the Americans gone?
They may not be big on gay marriage but Democratic support for freebies and ethnic preferences is a pocketbook issues that trumps lifestyle issues for most Hispanics. The Republican Party could probably get the Hispanic vote and the black vote, if it retains its social conservatism and goes all-in for freebies and ethnic preferences for these two groups.
That would be quite a trick. Thankfully, we live in a world in which the laws of physics win out in the end, and for that reason the Republicans haven't yet figured out how to accomplish it.
The Democrats, who are not encumbered by respect for any aspect of reality - other than the reality of getting enough votes to win the next election - will keep on trying to thread the needle.
By my reckoning 30 million illegals can create nearly 50 congressional districts by their mere presence.
Illegals are government growth hormone.
Blame Republicans for the amnesty dating back to Reagan. The Bushes were pushing this too. Demographics is destiny. Formerly solid red states are either tilting Obama or swing states. It’s only a matter of time when, not unlike California, we’ll be having one party rule and the nation as a whole will have accelerated the descent to hell in a hand basket like Third World economies.
You've put your finger on it. Fiscal and electoral reality are different things. Electoral reality is that the Democrats are importing enough foreign voters and ginning up enough new government freebies to get a permanent majority. Fiscal reality is that not cutting back on these freebies will lead to successive devaluations. Which is more or less what we've had since we went off the gold standard in the 1970's, back when the dollar traded at 360 yen to the dollar (compared to 78 today).
Where have all the Americans gone?
They’ve gone to the abortion mills, the contraceptive shelves, and the university diploma mills, waiting until they’re in their 30’s to have babies. Like someone else said, demographics is destiny and it’s only a matter of time.
I see that Jesus, who “leans Republican,” hasn’t married the mother of his child. There’s plenty of free goodies available for single mothers. Why jump off the gravy train when the fools are willing to pay?
Anytime, anyone mentions “Hispanic Vote”....it is code for endorsing or pushing some form or variation of Illegal Alien Amnesty
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