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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Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
5:59 pm
bigotry….you want to try the “no proof whatsoever” line again….
Profiles of Troubling Tea Partiers
Karen Pack
Karen Pack describes herself as “a Christian, a Tea Party Member, a Constitutionalist and a Patriot”, is the leader of the Wood County Tea Part in Texas.. But she also has a history with the Ku Klux Klan. Documents show that Karen Pack of Winnsboro, subscribed to the “White Patriot” tabloid, and that Thom Robb’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan listed her as an “official supporter.
Roan Garcia-Quintana
Roan Garcia-Quintana of Mauldin, South Carolina is involved in several local Tea Parties and served as “advisor and media spokesman” for the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina. Garcia-Quintana recently joined the National Board of Directors of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), the largest white nationalist group in the country and direct descendant of the white Citizens Councils that fought to defend Jim Crow segregation during the 1950s and 1960s.
Peter Gemma
Peter Gemma, a resident of a Sarasota, Florida, belongs to the ResistNet Tea Party faction. Gemma is also a professional white nationalist. He served as head of Design, Marketing, and Advertising for the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens newsletter, the Citizens Informe — which has complained that minorities were turning the U.S. population into a “slimy brown mass of glop”.
Clayton R. Douglas
Sixty four year old Tea Partier Clay Douglas lives in Tucson, Arizona. The biker and one-time mayor of the tiny hamlet of Bingham, New Mexico is a member of the ResistNet Tea Party faction. Douglas uses his ResistNet website profile to advertise his Free American website and radio program — which has run racist stories like, “Are the Jews Behind the Destruction of America?” At a conference of another anti-Semitic group, Douglas once blamed Jews for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Larry Pratt
Larry Pratt of Virginia is a member of two different national Tea Party networks: Tea Party Nation and 1776 Tea Party. He has been promoting the gun and militia movement for years, and in 1992 spoke at a Colorado meeting of Aryan Nations leaders, former Ku Klux Klansmen, and adherents of so-called “Christian Identity” — a doctrine in which Jews are considered Satanic and persons of color are referred to as “mud people.”
Billy Roper
Billy Joe Roper is an enrolled member of the ResistNet Tea Party, a write-in for Arkansas Governor and a founder of the White Revolution. One of White Revolution’s rallies was held in Topeka, Kansas in May 2004, to protest the anniversary of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed Jim Crow segregation in education.
Gm
October 29th, 2010
6:02 pm
Bigotry: Tea Party people go around saying bigot statements we are ”going to take our back”
Who are you going to takeit back from? the millions of Americans that voted for this President or are you going to give it back to the indians”’
Gm
October 29th, 2010
6:02 pm
Bigotry: Tea Party people go around saying bigot statements we are ”going to take our back”
Who are you going to takeit back from? the millions of Americans that voted for this President or are you going to give it back to the indians”’
Gm
October 29th, 2010
6:06 pm
Who are you going to take your country back from? I want to know who took your country Tea baggars? I know who the millions of Americans that voted for Obama”"”
When will you bigots learn, you dont represent all Americans”””
Kamchak
October 29th, 2010
6:08 pm
…accusing tea party activists of bigotry with no proof whatsoever.
Certainly not all teabaggers are racists. but Tea Party activist Dale Robertson, who operates TeaParty.org is a real asshat.
120
October 29th, 2010
6:15 pm
It is appalling that there are enough illegal alien voters in the United States to make a “decisive impact” on the next election. Wonder if they’ll let me vote in Mexico next time I’m there on vacation.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
6:20 pm
It is appalling to see that some believe unlawful immigrants vote…..any actual proof?
Voting
October 29th, 2010
6:23 pm
keep up the good fight!,
I seriously doubt many illegals vote. But dead people in heavily urban voting precincts? Now that’s a whole different story. Dead people, felons, people voting several times in multiple precincts- yeah that happens all the time. And funny thing is its always in heavily Democratic precincts where it happens. Mmmmmhhh!
Teabagger
October 29th, 2010
6:26 pm
Gm,
They are going to take it back from big govt socialists. Good grief dude. Do you automatically read race into everything. You somehow leaped all the way from “we’re gonna take back our country” to now believing that is somehow a bigoted or racist statement? You probably walk around all day looking for racism in every nook and cranny don’t you?
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
6:29 pm
Voting…any proof. Let see some actual convictions. Should be thousands based on your assertion.
Teabagger
October 29th, 2010
6:29 pm
keepupthegoodfight,
So 5 people with questionable pasts makes a movement of millions of people all bigots? mmmmh! I reckon that based on that faulty logic that the Dem party is full of racists considering Robert Byrd was a former Klan member. Mmmmh. Or that its full of black racists when the Obama administration refused to prosecute 2 black panther members wielding batons and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia voting precinct. mmmmmh!
Teabagger
October 29th, 2010
6:31 pm
keep up the good fight for the moochers,
Get real dude. Every election time and time again election officials find evidence of dead people who voted. You know this. Just google it and you can find mountains of evidence. Its in the dang nightly news every election cycle for pete’s sake.
Teabagger
October 29th, 2010
6:34 pm
Keepupthegoodfight for moochers,
One other thing. You need some help with your critical thinking skills. If your mind really believes that 5 people typify a movement of millions of people than you must also think that the communists that affiliate with the Democratic party makes the entire Democratic party a bunch of communists- just going by your own sillass argument.
Dead people vote for Dems
October 29th, 2010
6:37 pm
Over 181,000 dead people were still on the voter rolls of six swing states in the 2004 general election, including almost 65,000 in Florida, according to the bipartisan 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform. Also in 2004, thousands on voter rolls had moved out of state or, as convicted felons, had lost the right to vote.
Cheap Anti-Fraud Fix
Photo IDs would at least make sure voters on state rolls are still residents on Election Day.
“Requiring a photo ID is not going to totally end vote fraud,” said Thor Hearne, national counsel for the American Center for Voting Rights.
Ficticious people also vote for Dems
October 29th, 2010
6:39 pm
WASHINGTON – Last Thursday a federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted four persons working for the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, accusing them of submitting more than 15,000 voter registration forms with fictitious names, phony signatures and bogus addresses.
They number has been upped to under 40,000
Ficticious and dead people also vote for Dems
October 29th, 2010
6:40 pm
Crickets chirping. I reckon I’ll leave since once again I have destroyed the mooching and food stamp liberal crowd with FACTS FACTS and more FACTS. See ya later moochers.
bill
October 29th, 2010
6:42 pm
democreats = lies, high taxes, corruption, socialism, marxism, loss of America. If that is what you want, then vote democrat. see easy solved
Gwinnettian
October 29th, 2010
6:43 pm
For the flower child who doesn’t believe illegals are voting here, a quote from the Heritage Foundation web site:
“In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens”.
Look it up for yourself if you don’t believe it.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
6:48 pm
Voter registration is not voter fraud….sorry…thanks for playing.
Justice Department report shows very few prosecutions for illegally casting ballots. According to a report by the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department, from October 2002 through September 2005, the Justice Department charged 95 people with “election fraud” and convicted 55. Among those, however, just 17 individuals were convicted for casting fraudulent ballots; cases against three other individuals were pending at the time of the report. In addition, the Justice Department convicted one election official of submitting fraudulent ballots and convicted five individuals of registration fraud, with cases against 12 individuals pending at the time of the report. Thirty-two individuals were convicted of other “election fraud” issues, including Republicans convicted of offenses arising from “a scheme to block the phone lines used by two Manchester [New Hampshire] organizations to arrange drives to the polls during the 2002 general election” — in other words, these convictions were connected to voter suppression efforts, not voter fraud. Several other people listed in the report were convicted of vote-buying.
As for the teabaggers…the comment was “…accusing tea party activists of bigotry with no proof whatsoever , the 5 names I provided and the additional one from Kam proved there is some proof. So the denial was a lie.
John
October 29th, 2010
6:49 pm
@Voting
Can you give us their names, party affiliation and when they convicted of voter fraud? Instead of making false accusations, give us the facts.
John
October 29th, 2010
6:56 pm
@Voting,
I noticed you implied Democrats commit voter fraud with no proof. He’s an example of how Republicans operate using voter intimidation reported by the AP…
A handful of McDonald’s employees in northeastern Ohio received handbills in their most recent paychecks suggesting they vote for three Republican candidates.
The handbill with a simple McDonald’s logo at the top recommended votes for Republicans John Kasich for governor, Rob Portman for U.S. Senate, and Jim Renacci for Ohio’s 16th congressional district. A Renacci campaign flier was also included.
“If the right people are elected we will be able to continue with raises and benefits at or above our present levels,” the insert said. “If others are elected we will not.”
John
October 29th, 2010
7:02 pm
@Gwinnettian
When were they prosecuted and what was the sentenced imposed on the illegals who were on the voter registrations?
John
October 29th, 2010
7:06 pm
Republicans throw out this stuff on voter fraud, which as Keep up the good fight! is not a rampant problem so they can commit and even worse offense…voter intimidation interfering in the rights of US citizens to vote.
hryder
October 29th, 2010
7:11 pm
Prior writing claimed that blacks were going to make the difference in saving Harry and all Democratic politicans. I have great hopes that most all voters will rid us of one party controlling the Presidency and both houses of Congress.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
7:23 pm
John…more lies from the Heritage Foundation. The actual GAO report says on page 42 that “a federal jury administrator in one U.S. district court estimated that 1 to
3 percent of the people out of a jury pool of 30,000 over 2 years (about
300 to 900 people) said they were not U.S. citizens;” This was based on a telephone survery with no verifiable evidence, nor were jury pools created solely from voter registration records…they included drivers license registration. There was generally no investigation of non-citizenship in some courts (so it could be claimed to avoid jury duty).
In simple words, Heritage Foundation is distorting the claim to prove its bias.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
7:25 pm
The 2007 Report on Voter Fraud for the Brennan Center of Justice has a pretty good summary of the purported claims and their actual investigation.
Kamchak
October 29th, 2010
7:35 pm
…a quote from the Heritage Foundation web site:
There’s your sign.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
7:41 pm
Lets look at the history of Fox/Republican claims of voter fraud:
On the June 7, 2006, edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, Ken Mehlman, then the chairman of the Republican National Committee, asserted that illegal votes helped Democrats win the Washington state gubernatorial election. Contrary to Mehlman’s suggestion that Democrat Christine Gregoire owed her victory to illegal votes, the county superior court judge in the case found that Republicans had not proved that even a single illegal vote had been cast for Gregoire. From the judge’s oral decision:
The Court concludes, by clear and convincing evidence, that Mr. [Dino] Rossi received four votes cast illegally by felons and that Ms. [Ruth] Bennett received one vote cast by a felon. There is no evidence, however, in this record that Ms. Gregoire received any illegal votes. Indeed, there has been no evidence produced that Ms. Gregoire received any of the 2,820 votes claimed by petitioners in their closing argument.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
7:45 pm
Hannity echoed a questionable Republican claim that “925 felons in prison” in Florida “voted illegally.”
The November 1 edition of The New York Times also reported this Republican accusation without making any apparent effort to verify it. But the St. Petersburg Times reported on October 29 that the claim was based on “two controversial and flawed state databases” that had been rejected by the state’s Republican secretary of state, Glenda Hood. In addition, the St. Petersburg Times noted that a preliminary investigation by its reporters “quickly found” two people on the list who were, in fact, eligible to vote.
Paddy O
October 29th, 2010
7:53 pm
The question is: Why is it so difficult for Mexicans who want to migrate here to do so? Most seem hardworking decent folks. What about the citizenship process makes it so tough to migrate?
The one and only
October 29th, 2010
7:55 pm
You guys are all idiots! and bunch of racist! as soon as you hear the words ILLEGAL IMMAGRANTS, you automatically think Latinos! what about the illegals from all the other countrys!? no body is worrying about them, all you care about is the mexicans! if i go into a chinese rest, 99% of the employees done speak english either!
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
7:56 pm
Let’s talk about “Ficticious” at 6:39…the name says it. Its an age old attempt to spread ACORN lies….The 4 people in questions were fire. ACORN officials in Kansas City said they turned in the four people who were indicted. “We’re very happy that they were indicted,” said Claudie Harris with ACORN.
Not a single fraudulent voter was actually registered from this group and ACORN was required by law to turn in the registrations, despite their questions about validity, but they indicated their concerns to state officials.
Keep up the good fight!
October 29th, 2010
7:56 pm
Oh I forgot to add….it was 2006. Not even 2008.
The one and only
October 29th, 2010
7:57 pm
Paddy O= Its hard to even get a visa to come over to the united states when living in mexico, you need to have money to get a visa, and people dont make crap in mexico, i know people who live in mexican and bring up $400 a months working 60 hours a week in factorys, some of them cant afford to get visas to come over, so they have to result in coming over illegaly
Kamchak
October 29th, 2010
8:20 pm
…you need to have money to get a visa, and people dont make crap in mexico…
That’s only part of the problem. The are only a certain number of immigrant visas allotted for each country, so even those that have the money must stand in a long line.
The number of family-sponsored immigrant visa applicants is listed below. The number of immigrant visa applicants in the six countries listed individually make up just over two-thirds of the total number of family-sponsored applicants for the 2010 fiscal year.
Under the rules of the Immigration and Nationality Act, there is a per-country limit. This limit only allows a certain number of people from a particular country to immigrate to the US every year. The 2010 per-country limit is set at approximately 15,820.
Family-Based Immigrant Waiting List by Country
Country Total Number of Immigrants
Mexico 1,174,033
Philippines 435,274
Vietnam 184,516
China 183,910
India 170,589
Dominican Republic 115,478
All Other Countries 1,105,655
Worldwide Total 3,369,455
TnGelding
October 30th, 2010
12:31 am
Kamchak
October 29th, 2010
5:13 pm
Don’t confuse them with facts.
TnGelding
October 30th, 2010
12:38 am
IF we want to preserve our heritage we need to restrict legal immigration, as well. Or greatly increase our fertility rate. I’ve got no problem with treating illegals at the ER. But then they go home! And children of illegals do not deserve citizenship. They and their parents need to return home. If it takes an amendemnt to the Constitution, so be it.
Frank
October 30th, 2010
1:56 am
But they won’t show up, will they? Because they’re illegal.