McCain missing the mark with Hispanics

[True_Blue]

Source: Sacramento Bee

LAS VEGAS -- Cindy Florez can't always remember the name of the man who will get her vote for president, but she knows his party and that's enough.

"I will vote Democrat," the 23-year-old hotel housekeeper said, in broken English, moments after registering to vote at a John McCain campaign booth in a Latino neighborhood market.

It's an insult-to-injury moment for the Republican presidential candidate. And when it comes to McCain's relationship with Hispanic voters, it's not the first.

The man who once took a big political risk by joining with Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to propose a comprehensive immigration reform bill that was embraced by Hispanics is now struggling to win these same voters, and falling perilously below the level of support that helped lift President Bush to the White House.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/839/story/1303589.html

[Faygo Kid]

1. Good news, but can't remember Obama's name?

I appreciate her vote, but that's pretty strange. Still, I have seen Leno's "Jaywalking" segment enough to believe anything.

[Nambe]

2. Mexicans are very party savvy. Bush is widely hated.

Most Gringos* living in Mexico are ex-pat liberals, President Clinton´s sister for example. ¨Democrats Abroad¨ is very active and public in Mexico. I don´t think Republicans would get away with that.

*The label Gringo for US citizens is becoming much more accepted as appropriate as I see it. Mexicans consider themselves Americans as does everybody on the continent. Since this is the United States of Mexico, being from the United States is also considered as a disenfranchisement to Mexicans. If you can´t handle being called a Gringo, go home (and change the name of your country).

[heliarc]

4. Remember though...

That Cubans LOVE Bush... in Miami Dade that is an issue. But press about the various dirty robo-calls targeted at the Latino Community might have swayed a good number to distrust McCain. I hope anyway.

I for one am a Chilean American for Obama.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. She had better make sure those republicans who registered her don't lose her registration form

[silverojo]

5. Gee, I wonder what went wrong

First, he wants to join Kennedy and give illegals full amnesty. Then, when the conservatives are at his door with pitchforks and clubs, McCain swings in the other direction.

Supposedly.

Truth is, he's lying to both sides. He's not going to do anything but continue to help provide slave labor to his rich Repuke friends, by leaving the borders porous and the laws unenforced.