Three-Fourths of Latino Catholics Back Obama in Pew Poll

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Hispanic Catholics support President Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney by a margin of more than 3 to 1 while about eight in 10 Latinos with no religious ties back the president, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
The survey of registered voters, released today, found a split between Hispanic Catholics and Latinos who are evangelical Protestants, with just half of the latter group backing Obama and 39 percent for Romney. Hispanic support for Obama far exceeds that of non-Hispanic white Catholics, who are evenly split between the candidates, Pew said.
“Among all Latinos, you’re seeing some very strong support for the president,” Mark Hugo Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center, said in a telephone interview.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-18/three-fourths-of-latino-catholics-back-obama-in-pew-poll.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. what is shocking is the self-realization that the GOP had during Clinton's second term

They knew, they acknowledged, and they publicly admitted that they were going to have serious problems with

a. blacks
b. hispanics
c. women

if they continued down the path that the GOP started down EVEN 15-6 years ago. They decided and invested money (even big bucks) to harvest some minorities and reach out to those groups. After years of effort, millions in investments, what do they have to show for it?

Marco Rubio
Alan West

I'd be tempted to throw in Michelle Bachmann into the mix along with O'Donnell and a few other weirdos, but I am no so sure that they are human.

Given all that outreach, all that effort, all the planning, there was just one itty bitty little problem. They continued down that same insane political path, getting ever more conservative, intransigent, and supporting policies that decimated those three groups. In fact, as the GOP KKKlown Kar approached the cliff, instead of changing direction, or slowing down, they emptied the brake lines of fluid and pressed on the accelerator.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. They Mistakenly Thought They Could Appeal To Those Groups

They mistakenly thought they could appeal to those groups based on their perception that they were as bigoted as them when it came to enfranchising previously disenfranchised groups such as gays. They were wrong. Pluralities or majorities of African Americans, Latinos, and Asians now support full rights for gays including marriage.


As Dr. King said "the arc of history is long but it bends toward justice."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. yeah, all true.

A former client, an african american, saw me in court last week and we started chatting about life in general, his mom (who was my actual client) and stuff in general. We talked about Obama's chances, and then he shocked me. "I just found out my best childhood friend is gay. I always thought he was just too picky and not interested in settling down. It took me a week, and then I realized he was still my best friend. Weird."

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Bush made some inroads...

He was never successful winning 'em all over, but he did enough damage so that they had viable paths to victory in states like Nevada and Colorado.

To put it into perspective, in '08, Obama won the Hispanic vote 67-31 ... and might win it by a wider margin this go around. In '04, Bush lost it 56-43 ... the best a Republican has done with Hispanics since at least the 1980 election.

So, even in the last eight years the party has marched away from what gained 'em support.