Democrats Consolidating Hispanic Vote Early

[babylonsister]

Democrats Consolidating Hispanic Vote Early
Benjy Sarlin November 21, 2011, 6:20 AM 34



President Obama’s relationship with Hispanic advocacy groups and lawmakers hasn’t always been perfect. But with the election a year off, he’s starting to put up some strong polling numbers among Latino voters.

Obama’s approval ratings among Hispanic voters — and the broader electorate — have been relatively weak at times this year, but as the Republican primary campaign hits the home stretch he’s showing no signs of trouble in matchups with any of his potential opponents. An extensive survey of Latino voters by Univision this week showed Obama racking up similarly high margins against Mitt Romney (67-24), Rick Perry (68-21), and Herman Cain (65-22). The 2-1 ratio is roughly in line with Obama’s margin against John McCain in 2008.

Republicans have made immigration an issue in the campaign as Romney’s attacked Perry over granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants and Cain has sometimes seriously, sometimes jokingly proposed frying border crossers on an electric fence. Everyone is on record bashing the DREAM Act, a bill Republicans have blocked in the Senate that enjoys 84% support from Latino voters, according to Univision. Regardless of who wins the nomination, clips of these statements will follow the party into the general election, and the Obama campaign is clearly pleased to see the GOP tacking right.

“We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim,” Obama told reporters last week. “We won’t even comment on them, we’ll just run those in a loop on Univision and Telemundo, and people can make up their own minds.”

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[Enrique]

1. Obama is easing up big time on deportations

and he's getting credit for it.

[EFerrari]

6. That is what his new policy says but that isn't happening

or, it isn't happening yet. And, his policy up to now has devastated thousands of families. I wouldn't count on him getting much "credit" on this score this round.

Albama DREAMers Speak From Detention: ICE Is “Rogue Agency"
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/11/albama-dreamers-speak-from-detention-ice-is-rogue-agenc.php

Deportation of Immigrant Parents Leaves 15000 Kids in Foster Care
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/252223/20111118/deportation-immigrant-parents-leaves-15000-kids-foster.htm

Policy against deporting noncriminal illegal immigrants is applied unevenly
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_19324796?source=rss

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Well, I guess that the media needs to toss that meme overboard now

given that Hispanics are not deserting Obama and/or flocking to the GOP

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. K & R

:kick:

[mikekohr]

4. Another nail in the republican coffin

[politicasista]

5. Kick

:kick:

GOP should have never had their votes in the first place.

[Vattel]

7. Sad that these creeps are even against the Dream Act.

Obama isn't a complete disaster on immigration isues, although he has been to the right of Bush on border security issues. So we vote for Obama because he isn't a complete fucking moron. What a privelege.