Mitt Romney spoke at The Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit yesterday. If the audience hoped to hear the presumptive Republican nominee talk about immigration policy, they were disappointed -- he literally didn't mention the subject at all and immigration didn't come up during the pre-screened Q&A session.
And why not? Because Romney already has a severe problem with Latino voters, and the more he talks about his agenda, the worse off he is.
Less than six months before November's presidential election, President Obama enjoys a sizable lead over Mitt Romney among Latino voters, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll of Latino respondents. [...]
In this survey, Obama holds a 34-point lead over Romney among registered Latino voters, 61 to 27 percent. In 2008, according to the exit polls, Obama defeated McCain among this key voting bloc, 67 to 31 percent.
The president's approval rating among all Latino adults stands at 61%, while only 26% of Latinos view Romney favorably.
There's no great mystery as to how the Republican reached this point. Romney has already said he's an opponent of the DREAM Act; he's palling around with Pete Wilson and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach; he endorses a "self-deportation" agenda; he's critical of bilingualism; and his casual dismissals of "amnesty" and "illegals" are a staple of his campaign rhetoric. It's why Romney has successfully alienated Latino voters to such a remarkable degree.
But given the size of the Latino community, especially in some swing states, this is a problem Romney may find it difficult to fix.
Update: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the other day, "I think we've had great successes when it comes to the Hispanic communities across America." He may want to rethink that one.
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but isn't that the whole point of being the 'etch-a-sketch' candidate? don't like what he said last week? no problem, just shake the damned thing and write up whatever he thinks his listeners are dumb enough to swallow. its working well with the jebus crowd.
By the time November rolls around, the only voting blocs Romney won't have alienated will be the fearful, the ignorant and the greedy asswipes.
Hmm... which means he's got a shot.
And what did he talk about but privatizing schools and killing unions.In other words lowering wages for working people and making more money for greedy investors.What will happen is parents may have to take out student loans for grades K-12. Hard to believe the conservative base can be taken in so easily by this Wall St plastic man.Of course it's easier to belive when you realize all they watch is Foxsnooze.
Great point.... But it's just not fox, but if you listen to other news outlets they never mention eactly what mitties actually said or analyst how his plan effect everyday communities, until some orangization fact-check...
And no one thinks it condescending that Maddow and leftists reduce the Hispanic community to some mythical monolithic voting block that only cares about immigration?
Give me a break. Hispanics open small businesses at something around 3 times the national average. We care about the economy and guess what - we like economic freedom and that's why we fled our Latin American countries in the first place.
Immigration won't be a problem if we continue down this path of economic ruin.
Have you seen this yet? "Dont' Re-Nig in 2012. with a strike through the Obama logo. Rachel, please say something abt this! We cant let this blatant racism goon w/o any critique!. Apparently form baton Rouge
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Isn't "pushing latinos away" another way of saying "self-deportation?"
When Chairman Priebus says that there have been "great successes" with "Hispanic communities across America," he means that more Hispanic voters are being blocked from voting.
Big lead among women, big lead among Latinos, big(?) lead among African American, and still neck and neck in the poles? What don't I get?
White guys suck?