The ‘duh’ reason Hispanics voted for Trump

The ‘duh’ reason Hispanics voted for Trump: The “Why did Hispanics vote for Trump?” debate goes on. Some liberal commentators are saying Hispanics voted against their own interests.  Really?  Isn’t that a bit insulting?  In other words, what….

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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 17, 2024

 The “Why did Hispanics vote for Trump?” debate goes on.

Some liberal commentators are saying Hispanics voted against their own interests.  Really?  Isn’t that a bit insulting?  In other words, what does a liberal pundit know about how millions voted?  How about more respect, please?

The latest is from Alfredo Ortiz, who is the president and CEO of the Job Creators Network.  Maybe you’ve seen Alberto on TV or heard him on the radio.  This is how he explains the vote:

Our key finding: Hispanics have the same concerns as everyone else. Hispanics are just as concerned about their faith and families, the economy and inflation, crime, and the direction of the country as all Americans. President Trump spoke to these concerns far better than Democrats, and that’s the reason for his historic performance with Hispanics. And, it turns out, with Americans of almost all backgrounds.

Trump recognized that Hispanics aren’t an identity group that can be pitted against others in tribal political warfare. The Harris campaign ran on this soft bigotry through promises such as forgivable $20,000 loans to Hispanic men, but Trump treated Hispanics as part of his broader coalition of working-class Americans striving for the American Dream. 

Hispanic voters didn’t need to listen to the political rhetoric. They merely needed to observe and compare their quality of life while Trump and Harris were in office. Real median Hispanic household income grew $6,500 between 2017 and 2019, 10 times faster than between 2021 and 2023 under Biden-Harris.

Our Hispanic Vote Project found that Latinos are especially concerned about their businesses remaining profitable and their churches remaining solvent. We talked to many part-time pastors who were also small business owners, and many expressed concerns about rising taxes and inflation.

To paraphrase Carville in Spanish: ¡Es la economía, estúpido!

You mean that Hispanics are concerned about the price of food?  Safe streets?  Good schools?  Men taking girls’ trophies?  Disorganized and chaotic illegal immigration?  A hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Well, yes, they care about that.  They are not talking about immigration reform or DACA 24/7.

Yes, they want more immigration, but it must be legal and orderly.  Yes, they want political asylum but not giving everyone who shows up at the border a piece of paper to see a judge sometime in the future.

So Hispanics want common sense, and they heard a lot of it from Donald Trump.

Who could have seen that coming?  The answer is anyone who lives in Hispanic districts and talks to real people who are not getting their instructions from Jorge Ramos or Jim Acosta.

Yes, Donald Trump spoke to Hispanics like real people rather than some identity group.  And they voted for him.  Wow, what a concept!  People vote for someone who understands their concerns.

So there you have it.  Hispanics listened to both sides and made a rational choice.

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1968: "Heidi" vs Joe Namath and the incredible finish that no one got to see.....

Before cable TV or Internet, we had 3 or 4 channels in most cities.  On Sunday afternoons, we used to get NFL football on NBC and CBS and that was it.    The old AFL was on NBC and the NFL was on CBS.   There was no ESPN post game show or instant information on the status of games.   Most fans got their scores by print or next day’s sports page.

On this day in 1968, the movie “Heidi” changed football and TV forever.   

The Jets were leading and NBC switched to the movie.  There were millions of little girls all over the country waiting for the movie to start.  

Then Oakland scored twice in nine seconds and the game was over: 43-32!  Nobody saw it.  Only fans listening to the radio in New York and Oakland heard about it.

The NFL and the TV networks changed the rules after the game.  Thanks to the Heidi game we have to watch the end of the game!

The "Heidi" game matched two of the greatest AFL teams.  The Jets won Super Bowl III and the Raiders were one of the best pro-teams of the AFL era.

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1968: "Heidi" took our minds off another election that everybody was sick and tired of

A post from 2016.....

Just yesterday, a friend sent me a message saying that he and his wife were deactivating Facebook because the politics is just too crazy and the attacks too personal.  

Indeed, social media is out of control.   I do not do politics on my Facebook anymore because you can't win.   it was really bad in the middle of the Cruz-Trump primary.  

Back in 1968, we had one crazy election too.   I remember talking to my father a lot about it back then.  Our family was supporting Nixon but it seemed like the neighborhood was angry and no one was happy with the choices.   Sound familiar?    All of the kids were into the election, specially that fellow named George Wallace who had a running mate named Curtis LeMay who had a cigar and allegedly talked about nuclear weapons.

Well, one Sunday afternoon, our family got to enjoy a day without post Election Day politics.   We did not realize that a movie about Heidi would start another national argument.

Before cable TV or Internet, we had 3 or 4 channels in most cities.  On Sunday afternoons, we used to get NFL football on NBC and CBS and that was it.    The old AFL was on NBC and the NFL was on CBS.   There was no ESPN post game show or instant information on the status of games.   Most fans got their scores by print or next day’s sports page.

On this day in 1968 my little sister was all pumped up to watch "Heidi".   My brother and I were really into that Jets-Raiders game from Oakland.    After all, what kid wasn't a Joe Namath fan in 1968?   He was cool.   Girls loved Joe.   He had that classy way of passing the ball!

Then the movie “Heidi” changed football and TV forever:

“On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets–and no one sees it, because they’re watching the movie Heidiinstead.

With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in favor of its previously scheduled programming, a made-for-TV version of the children’s story about a young girl and her grandfather in the Alps.

Viewers were outraged, and they complained so vociferously that network execs learned a lesson they’ll never forget: “Whatever you do,” one said, “you better not leave an NFL football game.”

The game between the Jets and the Raiders was already shaping up to be a classic: It featured two of the league’s best teams and 10 future Hall of Fame players.

By the game’s last minute the two teams had traded the lead eight times. The game’s intensity translated into an unusual number of penalties and timeouts, which meant that it was running a bit long.

With a little more than a minute left to play, the Jets kicked a 26-yard field goal that gave them a 32-29 lead.

After the New York kickoff, the Raiders returned the ball to their own 23-yard line.

What happened after that will go down in football history: Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica threw a 20-yard pass to halfback Charlie Smith; a facemask penalty moved the ball to the Jets’ 43; and on the next play, Lamonica passed again to Smith, who ran it all the way for a touchdown.

The Raiders took the lead, 32-36. Then the Jets fumbled the kickoff, and Oakland’s Preston Ridlehuber managed to grab the ball and run it two yards for another touchdown.

Oakland had scored twice in nine seconds, and the game was over: They’d won 43-32.

But nobody outside the Oakland Coliseum actually saw any of this, because NBC went to commercial right after the Jets’ kickoff and never came back. Instead, they did what they’d been planning to do for weeks: At 7 PM, they began to broadcast a brand-new version of Heidi, a film they were sure would win them high ratings during November sweeps.

Before the game began, network execs had talked about what they’d do if the game ran over its scheduled time, and they decided to go ahead with the movie no matter what.

So, that’s what NBC programmer Dick Cline did. “I waited and waited,” he said later, “and I heard nothing. We came up to that magic hour and I thought, ‘Well, I haven’t been given any counter-order so I’ve got to do what we agreed to do.’”

NBC execs had actually changed their minds, and were trying to get in touch with Cline to tell him to leave the game on until it was over.

But all the telephone lines were busy: Thousands of people were calling the network to urge programmers to air Heidi as scheduled, and thousands more were calling to demand that the football game stay on the air. Football fans grew even more livid when NBC printed the results of the game at the bottom of the screen 20 minutes after the game ended. So many irate fans called NBC that the network’s switchboard blew.

Undeterred, people started calling the telephone company, the New York Times and the NYPD, whose emergency lines they clogged for hours.

Shortly after the Heidi debacle, the NFL inserted a clause into its TV contracts that guaranteed that all games would be broadcast completely in their home markets. For its part, NBC installed a new phone–the “Heidi Phone”–in the control room that had its own exchange and switchboard.

Such a disaster, the network assured its viewers, would never be allowed to happen again.”

So now we have to watch the end of the game thanks to a cute girl named "Heidi" and the Raiders scoring 2 TD's in 9 seconds!

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November 1971: Three Dog Night released “Old fashioned love song”

Three Dog Night had many hits, from "One" to "Joy to the world" to "Black and white".   

My favorite was released in November 1971.    "An old fashioned love song" was a Paul Williams' composition.    It peaked at # 4 in the US and # 2 in Canada.

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Remembering The Kingston Trio and "Tom Dooley"

The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" was the #1 song in the US on this day in 1958 .  

It was the first of many other hits.

The trio sang lots of folk songs and very popular with younger crowds and college students.    

Here it is:  Click!

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