Posted on 09/18/2016 3:40:50 PM PDT by Mariner
Lagging support among Hispanic voters for Hillary Clinton and congressional candidates in crucial races has stoked deep concern that the party and the presidential campaign are doing too little to galvanize a key constituency.
While Clinton holds a significant lead over Trump in every poll of Hispanic voters, less clear is whether these voters will turn out in numbers that Democrats are counting on to win. Clinton trails President Obama’s 2012 performance in several Latino-rich states including Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. In those same states, where Democrats’ goal of retaking the Senate hinge, some down-ballot Democrats remain unknown to many Hispanic voters.
That reality has prompted a flurry of criticism of Clinton’s and the party’s Hispanic strategies. Despite a uniquely favorable environment with Republican Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on undocumented immigrants, Democrats are increasingly worried that the opportunity is slipping away to meet a longstanding party goal of marshaling the nation’s growing Hispanic population into a permanent electoral force. The concerns are compounded by Trump’s recent surge in several battleground states.
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Now the field is clear and chaos ensues.
Not there deep concern that she may not make it to the finish line in the shape shes in
So the WaPo is stating that the average legal Hispanic is offended by Trump’s statements on illegal aliens? Really?
Dems just dont know how to relate to everyday people. They see everything through political-science-lawyer lens instead of economic and needing to take of our family lens
>>>Not there deep concern that she may not make it to the finish line in the shape shes in
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democrats are now thinking they are voting for kaine.
Hillary is Merkel. Beat that drum 24/7. Lot’s of visuals too.
She said this week to Hispanics that she wants to see a taco truck on every corner. How the hell is that NOT considered condescending and racist?
She was referring to a different taco.
1. Those are not attacks.
2. Illegal Aliens are not undocumented immigrants. Illegal Aliens have never gone through the immigration process. They migrated in not immigrated. Some illegals are documented in some ways, documentation is not the issue.
I didn't read past that line.
Citizens of Hispanic background are just as impacted by illegals as the rest of us. In fact maybe more so. They live in the neighborhoods that most illegals live in. It is no surprise that Trump is getting the vote of some of them.
The majority of Latino people are much more conservative than the Obama/Hillary brand of Democrat...They are patriarchal, hard working, reasonable & willing to reject paying taxes to support another horde of welfare recipients flooding across our Southern border....another miscalculation for the globalists ...... (Just like black and female white vote)
Prediction: Sorry GOPe & DNCe, the Constitution of the United States will not be rendered meaningless by your contrived wave off illegal aliens....
BIGOTED. Not racist. We have to stop using their lexicon. The word they hate most is bigot.
Her strategy, and that of all Democrats, is to go after the illegal alien vote.
If they have a problem with her, they have a problem with themselves.
What happened to the vaunted Hillary ground game we have been hearing so much of.
LEGAL immigrants HATE ILLEGALS
For that reason Trump will get votes
New immigrants from the Czech republic
And could not get over that Spanish signs were in the US airports and other places
They hated ILLEGALS
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. You seem to be positing a divergence between "illegal aliens" and "undocumented immigrants," as well as a dichotomy between "immigrate" and "migrate."
I have close friends who came to the United States illegally from Mexico. They are not "undocumented": they have some documents. They are not "migrants" in the sense of people moving around from here to there: they have lived here for years and don't intend to go back. They have stable jobs and are (the reason I know them) strongly contributing church members.
However, they are, in the standard phrase, "illegal immigrants" or "illegal aliens." (I think the former term is more accurate, but I understand the point of view of those who prefer the latter.) They do not go back to Mexico when, for example, a parent in Mexico dies, because they don't know if they would be able to return here. This is different from others from Mexico or Central America who are able to travel legally back and forth (if not safely, given what things are like in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc.).
Hillary’s ONLY strategy...
“They’re racists. I have girl parts. “
Whenever Hillary contemplates a “new strategy” it always boils down to what new insult is she going to start yapping. Has she said one positive, substantive thing this election? OK, so it’s a rhetorical question...
I know. I was making a point about the poster trying to call whatever it was, racist. It is bigoted which goes right to the soul-less heart of progressives because racist is just a pejorative to use against your enemies. Being called racist means nothing to them because they have been taught they cannot be racist.
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