Democrats taking latinos for granted?
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I really think Democrats are taking latino's in the us for granted. They think latino's automatically vote democrat and it's not true. Granted democrats get the most latino's votes but it's not that far apart.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/us/hispanic-votes-republicans-midterm-gains.html
"Greg Abbott, the Republican who defeated an underdog campaign for governor by Wendy Davis, a Democrat, won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, while Ms. Davis took 55 percent. In 2010, Gov. Rick Perry, also a Republican, won his race with 38 percent of Latinos."
Texas is a minority, majority state and is conservative. Just as is arizona. Granted Wendy davis got 44%, but abbott got 45% and that's only 5% away from half. Rick perry got almost 40%, that's a lot and not at all close to democrats having the vote sewn up.
"In Georgia, where a small but rapidly growing population of Hispanic citizens now represents 4 percent of voters, Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, was re-elected, winning 47 percent of Hispanic voters while his Democratic challenger received 53 percent. In the hard-fought Senate race in Georgia, David Perdue, a conservative Republican businessman, received 42 percent of the Latino votes while his Democratic opponent, Michelle Nunn, got 57 percent."
In georgia the vote was not as heavy for the democrats as one would think.
"In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican who had been under fire even from some in his own party for sharp tax cuts, received 47 percent of the Latino vote, while his Democratic challenger, Paul Davis, won 46 percent. The exit polls were conducted by Edison Research for the television networks and The Associated Press."
Take note, in Kansas Sam Brownback got the majority over the democrat.
Yes, a poll says 45% of latinos say immigration reform is the most important, but that would not make them vote for the people against it. It also means to 55% it is not.
The Democrats seem to think they have latino's in their pocket, it's not the case. There is also a notion that most latino's are for amnesty, I think that's probably true for the 45% above. I have lived in the US and know people there, by far most that went there legally oppose it. Many have family members waiting to get approved and consider this as them getting moved back.
People also think new immigrants to the US will automatically vote democrat. Most are the very poor, very religious people. They are very much against abortion and gay rights. I'm not saying this is good, that's just how it is. I think with the voting numbers the way they are a lot of the newer immigrants are on the conservative side.
People can, and will, ignore this but the amount voting conservative bears this out.
Just the opinions of someone that knows the pulse of these people.
This also points out a problem of the democrats in the us. Anyone trying to point out problems is considered an enemy and attacked. It's fact that 38% of the latinos in florida and the whole us vote conservative, but anyone pointing that out is the enemy. It's true that this 38% are people that democrats should have and it should be corrected, but anyone pointing that out is the enemy. It's also true that they are not the majority but again votes democrats should have. Pointing to past elections mean nothing, the past election is the only one that matters.....it and the next.
In reality those ignoring these problems are part of the problem and this means you also. Is there really any point in discussing this with someone that is part of the problem and closed minded? Do you still deny those 38% in florida and nation wide?
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Democrats take them for granted and republicans don't care.
I have news for you. I've lived in the us and experienced as much, or more, hate from the left. I experienced more in southern california (the enlightened progressives) than I did in Arkansas. My wife was amazed that the people were so much better in arkansas. Both parties ignore the crime ridden latino areas as it doesn't involve white people I think democrats need to clean up their own house first, accept that there are a lot of racist democrats (in all parts of the country) and stop thinking of latinos as voting sheep. Expecting the influx of people that will become voters to automatically vote democrat will come back to bite them.
Democrats think pushing amnesty will fix everything while the truth is that not all latinos support amnesty. In fact a lot are against it.
I don't know what the answer is, I just know neither party has it. Both need to wake up.
Just a warning. One of these days latino's will be in power and they won't be beholding to either party. Since most are from a poor, religious background I expect it to surprise a lot of people when they emerge conservative. I would bookmark this post, but I will probably be dead by then.
I'm in the over 60 crowd.
Good post. 
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Well said and bares repeated often
My second wife was a Mexican national, and Catholic of course. It didn't work out, and my lack of religiosity probably had something to do with it, although my being an alcoholic probably really sealed the deal. 
I understand that it isn't about judgement per se. Reality and truth kind of transcends that. Another truth is that Catholics of a foreign stripe don't get our American separation of church and state. They are used to them being conjoined in many ways. We don't do it all that well here, either, of course, but we try. In any event, a recent immigrant probably follows church doctrine in the voting booth more strongly than the average, non-fundamentalist American whose family has been here a few generations will. Our Talibangelist wingnuts are trying to 'correct' that, I'm fighting back.
