“It’s absolutely urgent. The demographics are there in black and white…If we don’t figure out a way to open our party up to more Hispanic voters, nothing else we do will matter. Mathematically, we can’t get there from here.”---Former Rep. Henry Bonilla (Republican) is alarmed at how the Latino vote has mostly fled away from the GOP and towards the Democratic Party.
Bonilla’s comments are nothing to shrug off; the “anti-Hispanic rhetoric” has become louder within the GOP, as ex-Republican Party chairman Mel Martinez observed.
A recent survey by Bendixen & Associates found that 71% of respondents feel that the Democrats best represent the Latino community on immigration and that President Barack Obama has done “an excellent or good job” on Latino issues. Another study conducted by the University of Washington found that four in five Latinos back Obama’s presidency so far.
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2 comments:
There is a special Primary Election in California today Tuesday. To fill the seat at the House of Representatives vacated by Hilda Solis, secretary of Labor for Mr Obama.
I assume that we are not going to know the results until 3 or 4 hours later, because of California Pacific Time.
Judy Chu and Gil Cedillo are the favorites.
But if Emanuel Pleitez wins today then it would be very revolutionary, that candidate having worked with Obama in the transition team and being only 26 years old. He is strong in Finance and has worked for Goldman Sachs.
The Pleitez campaign has been poor in money but strong in Obama-like tactics of energizing youth.
The election agains the Republican is in July.
I plan to analize what happens in California.
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Vicente Duque
Er, yeah, bigoted speech (no matter how much one claims to be Christian) will lose votes every time.
No one will care to hear what you are about after calling them and their mother foul names.
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