Thursday, May 03, 2012

What if they had an election and Hispanics voted for something other than immigration?

This article was posted on The American Thinker.

We've argued for years that Hispanics are not talking about immigration 24/7.  In other words, most Hispanics are in the country legally or born in the US.  

IBD highlights a new poll about Hispanics.  It won't be good news for the Obama reelection team and their efforts to "scare" Hispanics in 2012.

Here is a key finding of the poll:

"An October 2010 study by Pew found that just 29% of Latinos said illegal immigrants' impact was positive vs. 31% who said the impact was negative. 

Another 30% saw no impact.

Among native-born Hispanics, 36% said illegal immigration had had a negative effect, while only 24% said it was positive.

The same study found that Latinos rated immigration fourth on their list of top issues, behind education, jobs and health care. 

Only 32% rated it as extremely important. For U.S.-born Latinos, immigration ranks sixth, also dropping below the budget deficit and the environment.

Amazingly, Pew even found that immigration reform wasn't the top issue for illegal immigrants, with only 27% of them calling it extremely important. It placed fourth on their lists too. 

Furthermore, only 15% of Latinos said they had ever marched or demonstrated for immigration reform and only 11% of U.S.-born Latinos said they had.  

A narrow plurality of all Latinos, 48%-46%, back increased border patrols. 

A majority, 58%, favors a national identity card."

A poll is a poll.  We don't like to hang everything on one poll.  However, I think that this poll is correct.

My impression is that Hispanics are not a single issue group.  

They live in the same US economy that other Americans do.  

They have sons in Afghanistan, too.  

They send their kids to failing public sector schools run by teachers' unions that overwhelmingly support Dem candidates.  

Polls show that Hispanics are pro-life and favor traditional marriage, or one man and one woman.  

Hispanics are also very religious and can not be happy with the Obama administration "mandating" Catholic hospitals to discuss abortion with patients.

Last, but not least, I think that most Hispanos like me ("the naturalized citizen) are specifically aware of the value of "the rule of law" to a country.  Most of us have seen our countries overrun by arbitrary and selective application of the law.

I will say it again.  I don't believe that immigration will drive Hispanics to vote one way or another this fall.  

I think that this is the election that we blow up the myth that Hispanos are "talking immigration" from dawn to dusk.

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Why hasn't Pres BO said anything about Pres Cristina Fernandez and Argentina?

We posted recently about Argentina and Repsol, the Spanish company.

We asked: Where is Pres BO?  Why isn't he speaking out for the rule of law and respect for foreign investment?

We are still waiting!

Perhaps Pres BO finds "the Kirchner way" and "class warfare" a bit familiar, or rather similar to what he learned in Chicago.  It sounds like BO & Christina are using the same speechwriter.  Or perhaps they are just translating each other's "blame the rich" speeches.


"Nationalizations, particularly in the energy sector in Latin America, are nothing new. But the circumstances surrounding the Argentine grab of YPF may be. 

They demonstrate the special nature of kirchnerismo, an economic model that enriches friends of the government while driving the nation toward poverty."

We call it crony capitalism up here.  Or you can call it Solyndra.  You can call it whatever you want but this is what happens when the government gets its hand in the economy and takes care of its friends.  Again, can you Solyndra?

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Dear Pres BO: Who is going to tell Hispanic "abuelos" that you have not proposed a solution to the deterioration of Social Security & Medicare?

Pres BO has been very cynical in his campaign to scare Hispanics that the GOP is going to send their "abuela" back to Mexico.

How about hearing how Pres BO is going to fix the financial crisis just around the corner?  Yes, I'm talking about Medicare & Social Security, the two entitlements that Pres BO avoids like a plague.


"Here we go again. The experts who oversee Social Security and Medicare rang the alarm bells once more last week."

The numbers do not add up and that's the root problem at Social Security & Medicare.  

We need leadership that will talk to us about real problems, such as running out of money to pay the commitments that we made to our "abuelos'".   

Instead, Pres BO is making politically motivated statements about Arizona intended to increase turnout in November.

This is not leadership.  This is pandering of the worst kind, or a dereliction of duty that will hurt our "abuelos" for real.

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