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Thursday, August 03, 2006
Donald Lambro :: Townhall.com Columnist
As a bloc, Hispanics still like Bush
by Donald Lambro
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Since then, Ken Mehlman, who managed Bush's re-election campaign before being named Republican National Committee chairman, has made Hispanic outreach a major part of the RNC's agenda. His political pitch is on economic, cultural, educational and ownership grounds -- issues that have strong appeal within this group.

Still, the NDN poll findings showed that if the presidential election were held today, Republicans would face a significant drop in voting preference among Hispanics, down to 23 percent, modest growth for Democrats, 59 percent, while 18 percent remained undecided.

Significantly, NDN's analysis of this 18 percent "finds this group very favorable to President Bush and wary of Democrats.

"While unhappy with the direction of the country, this group will not be an easy one for Democrats to make substantial gains with," NDN said.

Looking more deeply into these undecided voters, the poll also found that 48 percent "tend to have a more favorable opinion of Bush," 53 percent have a favorable view of the Republicans and 36 percent have an unfavorable view of the Democrats."

So what does this all mean? Well, if you add the 23 percent who would vote Republican for president today and the 18 percent who heavily lean Republican, and you still have more than 40 percent of this all-important Hispanic bloc in the GOP's column. "That is not chopped liver," Garcia admits, but adds the "higher concentration for the Democrats" in the total Hispanic vote "is still a loss for the Republicans."

Except for one big political variable. "Hispanics are not a single-issue voting bloc. They will vote on other things besides immigration," he points out. "What Democrats have to worry about is the long-term gains Republicans may have made through Bush's continued efforts to appeal to this group. Once you vote one way in two election cycles, you are no longer swing voters."

Garcia's ominous message to Democrats: "These Hispanic voters are not only highly volatile, they are vulnerable to being lost."

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Voting For Ending Immigration
It is hard to believe that immigration is not the most important issue for all, especially Hispanics. All Americans would win if immigration were ended, whereas most Hispanics would lose.
On that basis, Hispanics would vote for Bush and most voters against him. But
Bush is not up for re-election. Consequently, Hispanics must concentrate their votes on ousting House and Senate members up for election who want immigration ended or curtailed, whereas Americans must vote those for ending or curtailing immigration into office.

Americans win if immigration is ended because:
1) the up to 17% per year increases in their health insurance premiums and costs would moderate a bit,
2) their pay would begin to increase,
3) jobs would become more available,
4) the 45 % of 5-year-olds in America today that are black or Hispanic would stabilize,
5) the need for middleclass parents to move to still middleclass school districts or to private schools to prevent debased education of their children once minorities approached 1/3 of a school’s students would end,
6) the need to spend $10,000 on each immigrant child for public schools un-reimbursed in any way by immigrant taxes would end,
7) the need to spend $10,000 per year per student for private education due to immigrant children dumbing down our schools would end,
8) the cost of moving to a still middleclass school district and of paying higher rent or mortgages, taxes and insurance would end,
9) since our schools are unable to raise immigrant children to the level of functional literacy, further permanent additions to the underclass will be avoided, as will their heavy health, education, and welfare subsidies;
10) prison and law enforcement costs will stabilize,
11) the attempt to create a North American Union, with common citizenship and borders between Canada, America, and Mexico at first, then all of Central America, then all of North and South America, with Americans paying the tab with its votes meaningless, will have failed. And more, of course.

Immigrants win if immigration is expanded, as under the Senate Bill or the proposed Penny-Hutchinson compromise, because:
1) A steady supply of guest workers will have been provided for legally with the possibility of bringing extended family and of obtaining citizenship for immigrants by application and test, and children simply by their birth in America.
2) A continuing supply of legal immigration favoring the 8 nations of North and Central America to the virtual exclusion of European and other nations will be continued, expanded, and made law.
3) Free public education for children at $10,000 a child a year will be provided, with no need for the immigrant’s employer to pay wages sufficient to incur taxes to offset the costs.
4) Free health care, valued at $10,000 a year in family health insurance premiums, with no need for the immigrant or his employer to help offset the costs.
5) Social Security benefits way in excess of contributions.
6) Earned Income Tax Credit benefits for making too little.
7) the right to vote (Democratic) for Americans to provide more freebies once citizenship is obtained.
8) the right to bring in extended family, who will qualify for all of the above, especially health care for parents.
9) the ability to vote in both American and Mexican elections.
10) the ability to take any American job simply by working for less, but at many times the wages the immigrant is able to earn at home, needed benefits provided free by the American taxpayers.
11) revenge against the gringo for taking California, Arizona and other parts of Mexico.
12) Making these old Mexican lands, and more, part of a new Mexican sphere of influence and de facto part of Mexico. Thus the promise of 1917’s Zimmerman telegram will have reached fruition peacefully, without the need for war or siding with the Germans.


Here's an idea...
...how about all these "apologists for amnesty" include a poll stating what the majority of our citizens want.

Let's start flying in Aficans to win black votes, we'll fly in Irish to win the Irish vote, ship over Australians to appeal to the Australians, ship up Uruguayans to win the much coveted Uruguayan vote,........
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