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"Look, Ive read all kinds of analysis of this
I am absolteuly convinced that this troupe that youre hearing, that says if the Republicans dont go for immigration reform much as the Senate has done, theyre never gonna win another presidential election, Hume said. Oh, baloney.
If you look at the statistics, youll find that there was one significant bloc of voters that turned out in smaller numbers this time in a major, major way, way below expectations, below even their 08 turnout, and that was white voters, he added. Now, that doesnt mean if they turned out Romney would have gotten them all. But it shows you that this Hispanic vote which I think now is about 8.5 percent of the U.S. electorate or something like that is not nearly as important, still, as the white vote, which is above 70 percent.
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For the record, Hume sigificantly understated the eligible Latino vote, pegged by the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF) at 10.8 percent of the eligible electorate in 2012, having grown by more than 1 percent every two years since 1996. And while the growth rate for eligible Hispanic voters slowed in 2012, The Pew Hispanic Center noted that its because the communitys overall growth actually outpaced it, even though more Latinos registered to cast U.S. ballots last year than any year to come before it.
Those numbers are largely due to the growth in the Hispanic community in the last decade, which was up 43 percent on the 2010 census, whereas the white population grew by just 1 percent over the same period. The Obama campaign is widely credited with capturing an overwhelming majority of those newly-eligible voters and hurtling to victory on the back of a rainbow coalition that married Latinos to issues important to women, African Americans, LGBT people and working families.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/01/fox-news-host-on-immigration-reform-baloney-just-focus-on-white-people/
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(5,279 posts)Destroy your white voting block.