Via Pajamas Media:
There’s more news on the rapidly deteriorating relationship between Mr. Obama and Latinos. A constituency that, just two years ago, handed over 67 percent of their vote to Obama is now protesting in the street, as occurred during President Obama’s recent trip to Los Angeles.
And reason #6:
The debate is not over whether Latinos would be so angry with Obama that they even contemplate voting for a Republican — not after how despicably that party has behaved toward them. The real concern for Democrats is that disillusioned Latinos will be a no-show in the 2012 election, and that this could hurt the incumbent’s re-election chances.
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Ruben Navarrette is a open borders racist who wants to lump all of a Spanish heritage into a catagory called “Latino”. Perhaps he should talk to some Cubans, who consider themselves Cuban, or American, not Latino.
Or perhaps Navarrette would like to address the fact that the “hispanic” vote for Republicans increased by 8% from 2008 to 2010, from 30% to 38%. Or that more and more “hispanics” are becoming Republicans on a state level and that Texas gave the U.S. Congress two new Hispanic Congressmen this past election. Or maybe he would like to address that the Tejanos I know resent “latinos” from other nations crawling/swimming across our borders illegally since their parents worked so hard to get here legally.
Perhaps also, Navarrette should read the new GAO report on alien criminals, the numbers of arrests per alien (at least 7) and the cost to the federal and state governments for incarceration of people who should not even be here in the first place.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf