Latino vote could save Harry Reid and other Democrats
In mid-term elections that will be decided on the basis of turn-out — which candidate does the better job of getting his/her voters to the polls — some influential Spanish-language media outlets, including Univision, have launched last minute campaigns to get Spanish-speaking voters to go to the polls and cast their ballots. From The WSJ:
Days before the midterm elections, Spanish-language media have unveiled a get-out-the-vote blitz to energize Hispanic voters, whose turnout could be decisive in many races. . .
“There are 12 million Hispanic registered voters…If we all vote on Nov. 2, we will make a decisive impact,” says one spot featuring Judge Cristina Pereyra, star of the network’s court show, “Veredicto Final” (Final Verdict).
“We are going to be banging the drum of ‘You have to go vote, you have to go vote,’” said Ramon Escobar, Telemundo’s executive vice president of network news, in an interview.
Although Latinos are projected to make up less than 10% of the nation’s voters in November and are less likely to cast a ballot than the rest of the electorate, their participation could be decisive in states like Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Texas, which have large Hispanic populations and competitive races.
That initiative could make a difference in tight races across the country, such as the contest between tea partier Sharron Angle and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Democrat has cast his lot with Nevada’s Latino voters, supporting comprehensive immigration reform, while Angle has run vicious ads casting Latinos as criminals. (See video below).
Angle’s ads and similar campaign invective have helped to create a climate in which nearly two-thirds of Latinos in the United States think they are being discriminated against, according to a poll by the Pew Hispanic Center.
There is every reason for Latinos to turn out heavily on Tuesday.
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The AJC is Done
October 29th, 2010
1:26 pm
To the Lefties, it is always the system’s fault when things go wrong. Houses being foreclosed upon are the fault of the banks, not the dead beats who failed to pay their mortgages. Illegals forging social security cards are the fault not of the criminal illegals (forging a government document IS a felony) but of the employer who relied on that document to hire the worker. Amazing stupidity on the left side of the political spectrum.
barking frog
October 29th, 2010
1:27 pm
pickle, insanity is a communicable disease..
pickle
October 29th, 2010
1:28 pm
Yappy Amphibian-
Only among Liberals
tsand
October 29th, 2010
1:28 pm
Someone on this board wrote that there is a difference between Cubans and Hispanics…
Yes, but I can’t believe the context that this person was speaking to. Like somehow Cubans don’t feel the discrimination that all Hispanics, including myself, have felt all our lives.
Harry R. doesn’t care about Hispanics anymore than Crist, Clinton, Obama and Meeks.
If you are Hispanic and vote for Harry, please don’t do it because you think he cares about you. Harry cares about being reelected so the Democrats can retain control of the Senate. The Democrats need to retain control so they can continue pushing what I believe is a Socialist quasi-Marxist agenda that I do not ascribe to.
My family came from poverty in a mostly Hispanic community. A few whites controlled everything and almost everybody.
In one generation, our American system allowed my family, with hard work, sacrifice, and no handouts, become successful. The agenda that the Democrats are striving for, if in place during my life, would have never allowed my family to prosper.
Therefore, I can’t vote Democratic
barking frog
October 29th, 2010
1:29 pm
The AJC is Done
October 29th, 2010
1:26 pm
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Get rid of all the victims and you will have no criminals.
pickle
October 29th, 2010
1:31 pm
You libs work yourselves up into a mouth-foaming frenzy (due to your faulty genetics) and end up drinking too much of the kool-aid.
barking frog
October 29th, 2010
1:31 pm
pickle
October 29th, 2010
1:28 pm
pickle
October 29th, 2010
1:28 pm
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pickle, only a letter away from tickle…
Down in Albany
October 29th, 2010
1:33 pm
“Latino vote could save Harry Reid.” This is news? That’s what Reid has been counting on all along!
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
1:33 pm
Everybody say it with me…..
Not requiring ID at voting preceints equals voter fraud by the Left-nuts…
Thank you. Now carry on.
John
October 29th, 2010
1:40 pm
@pickle
“I wonder when liberals are going to start asking for their genetic defect to be considered a disability so that they’ll have another way to mooch off everyone?”
I noticed how you call liberals moochers when they receive government benefits. What do you call conservatives when they receive government benefits. What rock have you been hiding under, liberals are not the only ones who receive government benefits.
Do you watch the news? Even Tea Partier Joe Miller has admitted to he and his family receiving medicaid and benefits from a state run health program, unemployment benefits and farm subsidies. Of course, he’s running for smaller government and against these same programs. Aside from hypocrisy, would you say he’s a moocher?
everyday American
October 29th, 2010
1:56 pm
i give lessons to a great number of latinos, and the fact is, they’re here to work. they want to make as much money as they can so that they can send most of it back home to family members. with that said, they understand the two choices, 1)come here to live off of the government, or 2)come here, work, make more money, send more back home. they know which party stands for which. another fact, a whole lot of them are going back home, seeing as the building industry is the most important industry to this country, and we all know where that went. as did their jobs..
Dr. Weston Parker
October 29th, 2010
1:58 pm
Believe it or not, there use to be a time when Republicans owned the African-American vote. Now they could care less and are happy to get 10% of that vote.
There used to be a time when a Republican could get a majority or plurality of the Latino vote in any given race around the country. Then came Gov. Pete Wilson and Prop 187 out in California. Now Republicans are happy to get a 30-35% of the Latino vote.
The United States is growing browner by the day..legally.All of the bluster and belligerence coming from Republicans today is just sealing their electoral fate for at least a generation or two. Oh sure, most of the Confederacy and the sparse rural states will remain “red” for a good log time, but slowly, but surely, the Republicans are losing voting share in all of the largest states.
Demographics aren’t destiny, but President Obama has indoctrinated young people of all races, whose share of the voting age population is increasing at the same time when the old southern guard of the Republican party is not replacing itself at a pace sufficient to continue to hold power.
So here’s to you my conservative citizens. Enjoy whatever it is you think you are going to win in a few days. Has President Obama has discovered, it’s harder to govern than to campaign. I personally am looking forward to the Republican nominating process when we’ll all be treated to plenty of Sarah, and Newt, and a lot of drama as they all work very hard to remind the country that the present occupant of the White House is the, without a doubt, the safer choice.
Dick Hertz
October 29th, 2010
1:59 pm
Peadawg et al demonstrate 1) the reason white conservatives will be alone in a shrinking pool of their kind in the near term 2) ignorance of how immigration law developed in this country and why and 3) why people accurately perceive that racial, gender and ethnic biases are driving the majority of conservative agitation and media presence (Fox News, Limbaugh, “Free” Republic, Red State).
How many of those Latino people are simply moving here to escape our benevolent foreign policy, such as Reagan’s dirty war in Central America, and Bush/Clinton/Bush Plan Colombia? Ever notice that after we start a hobby war in some foreign country we soon afterwards are dealing with an influx of the refugees we made? Conservatives don’t understand accountability or causation.
Kamchak
October 29th, 2010
2:02 pm
pickle
October 29th, 2010
1:25 pm
Kamchak-
You must like it in the butt because that’s the only reason I can find of why people would vote for a Democrat.
I supported Juan McSame in the last election cycle, sport.
Please try to keep up.
Obama is over
October 29th, 2010
2:06 pm
The U.S. Latino population probably feels betrayed by Obama because like so many of Obama’s campaign promises, meaningful immigration reform was sacrificed to cram through Obamacare. Reid will suffer for the same reasons. Hispanic Americans are concerned about the same things as everyone else: jobs, education, violence (particularly the drug wars in Mexico),and the future for their children. Democrats are making a fatal mistake by assuming that Latinos will blindly follow because of minority status. The Labor Unions have been responsible for starting trade wars with Latin america particularly in trucking. Harry Reid is too closely associated with Obama’s failed agenda to survive. The vote is not whether or not you agree with Angle. She will win simply because she is not Harry Reid and does not support Obama.
Old Man
October 29th, 2010
2:08 pm
If immigrants are here illegally why are they eligible to file for Bankruptcy protection under US law? (and shut up cons! This was written into the 2005 revision, when republicans controlled all houses).
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
2:09 pm
Dick Hertz – “why people accurately perceive that racial, gender and ethnic biases are driving the majority of conservative agitation and media presence ”
This is laughable. Please try to think before you post something.
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
2:10 pm
Old Man – “If immigrants are here illegally why are they eligible to file for Bankruptcy protection under US law?”
Maybe because their creditors are US based firms (which are not illegal, BTW).
David S
October 29th, 2010
2:11 pm
Let’s hope it doesn’t save him. That a**hole has got to go.
John
October 29th, 2010
2:24 pm
@Nice Guy
“Maybe because their creditors are US based firms (which are not illegal, BTW).”
That makes no sense. Please explain how that makes sense to you.
Gm
October 29th, 2010
2:29 pm
Obama is over: Obama put the first Latino jude to the surpreme court”" Name me what Rep has done that.
I can understand why white conservertives hate him because he belives in fairness trust watch the polls blacks and Latinos are gong out in large no.
Thank you, Tea party for letting us see these idiots on TV debating, there is no way these people can run this couuntry”"”
JB
October 29th, 2010
2:30 pm
It’s funny to read and listen to all the news stories about Democrats pulling out all the stops to save their butt, even resorting to a little cheating……you would think just better policy and ideas would be enough to win…………………..But at the end of the day, even they know what they are dishing out to Americans doesn’t sell.
JB
October 29th, 2010
2:33 pm
Death nail for Democrats:::::::” We’ve got to pass the bill to see what’s in it” …!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never in a million years would the GOP get away with that……and looks like the democrooks won’t either.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award", much like Cynthia Tucker's Pulitzer and Obama's Nobel.
October 29th, 2010
2:34 pm
“Angle’s ads and similar campaign invective have helped to create a climate in which nearly two-thirds of Latinos in the United States think they are being discriminated against”
Only 2/3s feel they’re being discriminated against? Shoot, if the Latinos had leaders such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton they could easily get that up to 85-90%.
willie lynch
October 29th, 2010
2:34 pm
Peadawg,
You start early but you’re consistent. You’re dumb all day long.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award", much like Cynthia Tucker's Pulitzer and Obama's Nobel.
October 29th, 2010
2:36 pm
One word to the Latinos – Rubio.
This guy could headline the GOP in 2012.
Cynthia McKinney Tucker
October 29th, 2010
2:38 pm
“By a wide 60-34 percent, voters disapprove rather than approve of Obama’s handling of the economy. Fully 90 percent rate economic conditions negatively, and more than twice as many say they are worse off today compared with two years ago (36 percent) as say they are better off (16 percent).
A 55 percent majority of voters disapproves of the job Obama is doing on health care. In addition, many would like Congress to repeal the new health care law, either entirely (29 percent) or in part (29 percent). Others would like to see the law expanded (20 percent). The smallest group is the 15 percent who wants to leave the law as it currently is.
Of the issues tested, the president receives his highest approval rating for his handling of Afghanistan: 43 percent approve and 45 percent disapprove.”
JB
October 29th, 2010
2:39 pm
I’ll tell you how bad it is for Dem’s…..Sharron Angle will beat Harry Reid. Sharron Angle. Just think if Nevada had a strong candidate. He is everything wrong with Washington. Too powerful, too out of touch and too entitled, and tainted.
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
2:40 pm
John – “That makes no sense. Please explain how that makes sense to you.”
Assuming they want to become a citizen one day, not filing bankruptcy could hinder their current progress or the future process.
Tell me why you think it makes no sense?
John
October 29th, 2010
2:41 pm
@JB
It’s funny how you mentioned just Democrats…Republicans are doing the same sorts of stuff. Produced a Spanish language commercial telling Latinos not to vote, putting people at minority precincts under the guise of watching for voter fraud designed to intimidate voters, “arresting” reporters, stepping on a woman’s face onto a sidewalk, etc.
Yeah, one would think better policy and ideas would be enough. I don’t see any specific policies being put on by Republicans. Instead of talking about policies, they (specifically Tea Party Republicans) only hide and duck from the media.
Kamchak's gerbil
October 29th, 2010
2:42 pm
Gm
October 29th, 2010
2:29 pm
Obama is over: Obama put the first Latino jude to the surpreme court”” Name me what Rep has done that.
I can understand why white conservertives hate him because he belives in fairness trust watch the polls blacks and Latinos are gong out in large no.
Thank you, Tea party for letting us see these idiots on TV debating, there is no way these people can run this couuntry”””
Speaking of idiots, when is Gm going to enroll in some grammer classes?????
Cynthia McKinney Tucker
October 29th, 2010
2:43 pm
“In district after district, Republican polls are improving and there is increasing evidence of a sweep of truly historical proportions.”
JB
October 29th, 2010
2:45 pm
John, that would be hiding and ducking from a Media who would give them a fair shake, right John? SEIU in charge of placing voting booth’s in Nevada John….I feel good about that….What, the Klan was busy ?
Francis
October 29th, 2010
2:46 pm
Some sober thinking on voting for Democrats is that in the first session of Congress, a Liberal Path to Citizenship or Amnesty will be instantly addressed by the Senate, and its main disciple Senator Harry Reid leading the pack. There has been no mention of costs of Amnesty to the taxpayer, from this administration or the radical progressive press, which remains silent. You need to Google–The Heritage foundation and learn of a sudden hike to come in your taxes, to pay the $2.6 Trillion dollars for all newly processed immigrant subsidies and settlement needs once legitimized. Barbara Boxer or any named incumbent has remained silent to the added abomination of giving these subsidies. This will be a new inventory of foreigners coming here that DEM’S have promised access to our Social Security. Full admission so those over the years who illegally worked here, can apply for their ill-gotten gains even after procuring or using fraudulent Social Security numbers.
Another reality is that any illegal alien can apply for Social Security, even though they never paid into the system. It’s beyond anybodies imagination that rewarding people who intentionally slipped into America, then gaining entrance to every kind of government benefit. Our country is slipping down a financial mountain of a $13 Trillion dollar debt and we want to make the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens feel at home? But then Gubernatorial Jerry Brown, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa have approved Sanctuary City policies and are tied to the same brush of most if not all Liberal politicians to pass AMNESTY. Sanctuary refuges have brought along with poor illegal aliens– criminals of every persuasion, from the gutters of every cesspool of the world. Sen. Reid stated there are no illegal aliens in Nevada, so he must have been sequestered in his home in Searchlight prior to the construction boom in Nevada?
Every comment I have read says that the state is overrun with illegal aliens. As for California– That place needs no explanation? There is a Liberal majority seated in Sacramento that keeps silent about the crammed schools full of the kids of foreign nationals, distressed emergency rooms and an uncomplimentary jail system full of alien criminals. But Sen. Boxer, have allowed the illegal population to propagate. Only patriotic citizens such as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, State Senator Russell Pierce, in Colorado Gubnatorial Candidate Tom Tancredo have seen the invasion for what it has become and not remaining silent about it. Too many other politicians will not speak out –as they have been intimidated by the Liberal extremist “Political correctness”. They slink around Washington or State Capitol areas, scared of their own shadow. In additionally all citizens and taxpayers must be on guard of foreign nationals, voting in any election, to save their Liberal progressive saviors from becoming a number at unemployment agencies.
Our nation is being slowly Balkanized, by a mess of foreign languages and special disbursements by the Liberal open border zealots, to give away this nation to the worst of foreign nationals. The Tea Party political candidates will smoke out all foreign aliens, using such newly advanced tools as permanent E-Verify. Big Business will be held accountable with prison sentences for hiring illegal’s, and will not bow to either the Liberal progressives or the ideologies of the wealthy GOP. Remembering the new immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island and Galveston, Texas, during the 20th Century asked nothing, but acceptance. But the last decades have brought to this country monetary nationals who are demanding we knuckle down to their rules, demanding Amnesty, schools for their numerous children, free health care and public welfare. None of the richest countries in the world can afford this unnecessary fiscal strain; nether can we?
American taxpayers have nowhere to turn right now, with the repossession of their cars, the loss of their homes, failing health Care and a previous and post governments that have failed the people. IF AMERICAN PEOPLE GIVE INTO ANOTHER AMNESTY, IT WILL BE A SIGNAL TO EVERY POOR PERSON IT’S ALRIGHT TO BREAK THE LAW. THAT THIS NATION WILL WELCOME YOU AND PROFFER GOVERNMENT BENEFITS TO ANY LAWBREAKER. We need highly very skilled legal immigrant workers in our future and mandatory temporary workers for agriculture, but no more foreigners coming to pick our pockets.
oldguy
October 29th, 2010
2:51 pm
CT,
Just remember that old NY/Chicago Democratic policy “Vote early and often!!”
I am planning to come to Fulton Co. Nov 2 …. It will be a great chance for me to see so many of my dead relatives!! The all vote there!!!
JB
October 29th, 2010
2:52 pm
Ask all the ex Eastern Airline employee’s what a great job the union did for them……See, the Union doesn’t think profits are fair. You know, to buy new planes, fix old ones etc. They think that ALL the profit ought to be for paying someone 60K for cleaning out the plane with 5 weeks vacation, 12 sick days, 5 personal days and a 45K pension for life with full medical. THAT’S what profits are for….Silly me……
Gm
October 29th, 2010
2:53 pm
Kamchak’s gerbil: As soon as you stop using your Barney Name:
Cynthia Tucker wanabe: Please stop giving us your White Poll report, most of the people oppose health care are going to be the first in line receiving it when they lose their job and some one in their family has pre conditions and can not get help.
These are the same people in the tea party hating government but drawing SS#, Va Checks, Medicare and their Sen took the bail out money for their state
Conservativs, Tea party, Rep are a bunch of hypocrites.
John
October 29th, 2010
2:54 pm
@Nice Guy
“Assuming they want to become a citizen one day, not filing bankruptcy could hinder their current progress or the future process.”
We’re talking about illegal immigrants…which Republicans don’t want to give them a path to citizenship so why worry about them wanting to become citizens one day?
Bankruptcy protections are to protect the consumer from creditors. If they are criminals like Republicans claim them to be, then why would Republicans pass laws to protect these criminals?
As long as someone own property or a business in the U.S., they’re eligible for bankruptcy relief. But again, as Republicans point out they are criminals who are here illegally, so they should not own property or a business here.
Gm
October 29th, 2010
2:58 pm
Old Guy, Dem are out in large numbers around the country, I can not wait to see that look on 3 times college drop out Sean Hannity face, Anti American Glen Beck when they see that a lot of their tea party bigots lost.
Kamchak's gerbil
October 29th, 2010
2:58 pm
Gm – when you get your guvment check please use some of the funds for a remedial reading and writing class. You terrible use of the English language gives people the impression you do not know what you are talking about!!!!
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
2:59 pm
John @ 2:54-
I didn’t realize you were trying to bait me into a discussion so you could trash the Republican party and the ideas you think they have.
So for the record:
“We’re talking about illegal immigrants…which Republicans don’t want to give them a path to citizenship”
Does it get old being this ignorant?
“If they are criminals like Republicans claim them to be”
Well, technically, if you are here illegally, then you have committed a crime, which makes you a criminal. There is really no two ways about it bubba.
“as Republicans point out they are criminals who are here illegally, so they should not own property or a business here.”
Again, does it get old being this ignorant? Sheesh.
Cowbell
October 29th, 2010
3:00 pm
Lets not bring up obama’s winning the nobel peace prize. Cynthia got on my case for asking that question once. But since I did bring it up again, I really would love to know
exactly what he did to deserve the nobel peace prize. I Have reached the point with the nobel peace prize that it is similar to a prize in a box of cracker jax. End of story. Period!
John
October 29th, 2010
3:04 pm
@JB
“John, that would be hiding and ducking from a Media who would give them a fair shake, right John? SEIU in charge of placing voting booth’s in Nevada John….I feel good about that….What, the Klan was busy ?”
What’s the matter JB, they can’t man up and put their big man pants on? Scared of reporters, except Fox News because a Sharron Angle put it, she wants the media to ask the questions she wants them to ask. You’re talking about the voting booths manufactured and programmed by big business that support Republicans. The SEIU may be placing the voting booths but they’re not the ones manufacturing and programming them.
JB
October 29th, 2010
3:05 pm
Would have loved to seen this headline:……. SMART, HARD WORKING, TAX PAYING VOTERS COULD SAVE JOHN McCAIN……………
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
3:07 pm
John – “You’re talking about the voting booths manufactured and programmed by big business that support Republicans.”
Ah, yes. When in doubt, blame it on those evil, profit making businesses.
What a DB.
JB
October 29th, 2010
3:10 pm
John, OBAMA will go on John Stewart and View, but won’t go on The Factor on Fox in prime time, the most watched cable Commentary show on the air? What size are his pants? The View, Really John, dude….
JB
October 29th, 2010
3:14 pm
We’ve heard Americans told this week by Democrats to get out and vote “against the enemy”………Any Democrat want to deny that ?
Nice Guy
October 29th, 2010
3:15 pm
Looks like John as crawled back into his cave for the evening….good for him. Stay there.
Kamchak
October 29th, 2010
3:16 pm
Well, technically, if you are here illegally, then you have committed a crime, which makes you a criminal.
Well, technically, if you HIRE illegals then you have committed a crime, which makes you a criminal.
That’s one of the points that silly cons seem to always ignore when talking about illegals.
There is really no two ways about it, sport.
John
October 29th, 2010
3:16 pm
@Nice Guy
Not trying to bait you, but make you think when supporting your position…something it seems you can’t do so you resort to name calling. I only got into this debate when you claimed Republicans allow illegal immigrants the right to file for bankruptcy protection because their creditors are US companies. Bankruptcy protection is to protect the consumer from their creditors.
I asked you why it would make sense to pass laws that would protect criminals who are here illegally from their creditors.