[Binuilienzync]

Good Ol' Dingy Harry, putting his foot in his mouth...again. Maybe he's just angry that a Hispanic Republican is kicking his son's butt in the Nevada Governor's race.

Harry notes something about Hispanics --- "their skin's a tone darker". Really, Harry? Thanks. No one ever noticed that before. Kinda like when you pointed out that Obama was a "light-skinned Negro".

http://www.lvrj.com/news/reid-courts...100418929.html

RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Reid: How can Hispanics be Republican?

GOP blocking immigration reform, senator tells Latinos

By LAURA MYERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday slammed Republicans for blocking comprehensive immigration reform and told Hispanics they shouldn't be treated differently because "their skin's a tone darker" than that of America's early European immigrants.

"I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK," Reid said, speaking to Latino supporters whose votes he needs to win re-election in November. "Do I need to say more?"

Reid's open frustration stems from what the Senate majority leader said is GOP refusal to support any Democratic plan that includes a path toward U.S. citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

And his sharp attack comes as he faces a tough race against Republican Sharron Angle, who supports Arizona's law cracking down on illegal immigrants. She argues that the federal government has failed to enforce the laws and stop the stream of people sneaking into the country.

In April, Reid promised a rally of Hispanic activists in Las Vegas that he would deliver comprehensive immigration reform this year and that there would be "no excuses" for failure.

[peakyesno]

Nor can most voters of Latino ancestry.

[Bigroza]

Nor can most voters of Latino ancestry.

So if a candidate said "I don't know how any white voter could support President Obama" You would have no problem with that? (polls time and again show overwhelming disapproval by whites of the President) Are your views really that racist? When you see a person walking down the street do you assume you know what their views are based on their race? Good grief.

[orbidewa]

The voting data speaks for itself.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1024/exi...ysis-hispanics
How Hispanics Voted in the 2008 Election

Hispanics voted for Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden over Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin by a margin of more than two-to-one in the 2008 presidential election, 67% versus 31%, according to an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of exit polls from Edison Media Research as published by CNN. The Center's analysis also finds that 9% of the electorate was Latino, as indicated by the national exit poll. This is higher, by one percentage point, than the share in the 2004 national exit poll.

Nationally, all Latino demographic sub-groups voted for Obama by heavy margins. According to the national exit poll, 64% of Hispanic males and 68% of Hispanic females supported Obama. Latino youth, just as all youth nationwide, supported Obama over McCain by a lopsided margin -- 76% versus 19%.

Obama carried the Latino vote by sizeable margins in all states with large Latino populations. His biggest breakthrough came in Florida, where he won 57% of the Latino vote in a state where Latinos have historically supported Republican presidential candidates (President Bush carried 56% of the Latino vote in Florida in 2004). Obama's margins were much larger in other states with big Latino populations. He carried 78% of the Latino vote in New Jersey, 76% in Nevada, and 74% in California.

[VogsHoock]

Politico:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40989.html
Latinos are the youngest and fastest-growing group of voters in the country. What does that mean? In 1994, 3.5 million Latinos went to the polls. By 2008, that number was 10 million. There are still nearly 8 million Latinos who are eligible but have not yet registered to vote. Moreover, a half-million young Latino citizens will turn 18 every year for the next 20 years, according to Democracia U.S.A.

This Latino vote has already been credited with turning several red states blue, or at least purple. Yet, because of increasingly anti-Latino positioning, the Republican Party has been hemorrhaging Latino support since 2004. That was the high-water mark — when President George W. Bush won 43 percent of the Latino vote.

...

On immigration, Republicans are choosing to trade sound national policy for cheap political points. Yet they are sacrificing more than that. If they continue, they are likely to receive little support from Latinos not just this year but for many elections to come.

Rather than trying to win hearts and minds, Republicans have chosen to scapegoat the Latino community in hopes of energizing their base.

The real question is whether the GOP realizes the cost of its actions. The party is mortgaging its future. Republicans’ tunnel-vision focus on 2010 could mean they're flirting with permanent minority status.

[Nzmoafzn]

The voting data speaks for itself.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1024/exi...ysis-hispanics

You seem to not want to answer the question asked? No one is denying that Latinos overwhelmingly supported Obama in 2008, you can not also deny that whites overwhelmingly dissapprove of Obama's job performance.

So I will ask again:
If a candidate said "I don't know how any white voter could support President Obama" You would have no problem with that? (polls time and again show overwhelming disapproval by whites of the President) Are your views really that racist? When you see a person walking down the street do you assume you know what their views are based on their race? Good grief.