Posted on 07/04/2014 8:46:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Everyone assumes that Republicans will easily hold the House in November. The dominant storyline among the chattering classes centers instead on the possibility that Republicans could seize control of the Senate from Democrats. But the rapidly escalating immigration face-off between President Barack Obama and House Republicans raises the possibility that Democrats could win back the House — even if Republicans do take the Senate
How is that possible? It's simple: There are more competitive House races than Senate races in areas with significant Latino populations.
Last year, David Damore, a polling analyst for the firm Latino Decisions, found that there are 44 congressional districts with Republican incumbents that could be ousted if their Latino constituents flex their electoral muscle.
That may not seem like a lot for a body with 435 representatives. But Democrats only need to flip 17 seats to take over the House. While most observers see that as a bridge too far for Democrats this year, the political terrain in these Latino-strong districts may look different in the fall. Just as we head into the midterms' final two-month sprint, Obama will likely have followed through on this week's pledge to use executive orders to help keep immigrant families together in America.
Obama can't fix the entire immigration system by fiat. He can't unilaterally bestow citizenship on the undocumented. He can't even ensure his executive orders will stay on the books once he vacates the Oval Office in 2017. There will still be a need for Congress to act. And immigration advocates may well turn all their fire on obstructionist House Republicans once Obama has shown he has done all he can without them.
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Exactly. They don't. In fact, opposition to illegal immigration crosses party lines among majorities of self-identified Republicans and Democrats.
Seems the only people who want "Immigration Reform" (i.e. massive amnesty of illegals) are politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle who are bound and determined to force this upon an America that almost uniformly does not want it.
The leftist spanish media will assure the latinos vote RAT forever -- the illegal hoards know the power than can wield if they vote as a block.
Individualism means nothing to third worlders -- they believe is collectivism and strong-man rule.
Behind the scenes the illegal hoards know clearly in 25 years they will have the political power to completely open the border and out breed and import another 200M spanish speaking third worlds to completely overwhelm English speaking, individual loving, Republic loving Americans.
They fully intend to turn the U.S. into a spanish speaking third world hell hole.
I have Mexican friends born and raised here, parents born and raised here, who dislike illegals. They still vote Democrat every time.
So if you think of the country as being divided into those with jobs, those on welfare, and those here illegally, 2 out of 3 have Dems to thank for the pittance they're living on.
DUH!.... voter fraud of every kind....
I hate optimists.. most must be Rinos...
This guy is essentially an Organizing for America spammer.
I disagree. see my post #22.
The spanish speaking media here is hard-core left. Latinos overwhelming vote for the RAT party. Nothing, and I mean nothing, will change that.
I believe 10s of millions more will pour over the border in the coming years. With friends and family we are talking about at least 50M new RAT voters.
The "handlers" will be careful to route these invading hoards to currently red states. With the new RAT voters they will flip enough states permanently to blue.
The evil RAT party desires absolute power. They live to brutally control others.
The evil RAT party knows clearly that only through this illegal anti-English, anti-American invasion can they achieve absolute power -- they will not let this chance slip away.
We are about the witness the true unrecoverable destruction of our Republic as founded.
Unless this INVASION can be stopped soon and reversed, it is truly checkmate for our Republic.
As long as the GOP stops pushing Illegal Alien Amnesty...they will maintain House.
Any deviation into Amnesty and the GOP loses
The MOST uber conservative people I know are legal Hispanic immigrants. They make me look like a leftie. And they HATE Obama and illegal immigration.
He needs a shave and would have benefited from a few years in uniform.
Hey don’t try to confuse the issue - and the leftard journolist - with facts! /s
Recen polling (up thread) shows that Obama’s support with Latinos has fallen over 20 points...
Pretty DAMN DESPERATE.
Amnesty is DEAD as an issue in 2014. It was zipped up with Cantor in his (political) body bag. But nice try.
If we wanted to lose the House I can think of NO BETTER WAY than to pass Amnesty and have our base STAY HOME. As to lack of Amnesty motivating Hispanics, who are quite sick of the president, and definitely don’t appreciate his relocation of MS-13 to our interior, we shall see - but I suspect they have a lot more important things to deal with.
Obama and the Democrats own this one. Sorry the attempt at equivalency had an Epic Fail.
We will not know how successful (electoral) opposition to the Democrats can be until a party is formed to oppose them.
Does he live in his mom’s basement?
LOL, you are such a GOPe loving fool. Epic Fail on your part -- open your eyes.
Do you see the GOPe doing anything other than weak words?
As long as the GOPe sits on the sidelines and does NOTHING, they too own it.
Tell Karl Rove and your other RINO buddies hi!
Statistics show that illegals and their compatriots vote 75-80% RAT.
They have a cultural mindset of going with the strong horse
Spanish media convinces most hispanics that the GOP is the devil. Hence, for now and until we are a spanish decaying democracy hispanics will overwhelmingly vote for the RAT party.
With the illegal hoards it does indeed seem that the RAT party (and GOPe) will be successful in destroying our once great Republic.
Polls like this mean nothing. Latinos will continue to vote > 75% for the RAT party -- nothing will change that.
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