Not every one 68 and older watch Faux News! Living proof!
âThe GOPâs brand of liberty isnât something Latinos are likely to buy given the partyâs recordâno matter who is doing the selling.â
Iâve been saying this since Rubio was first mentioned as a candidate. Beyond that, a âHispanicâ surname is not the same a being a member of one of the many many many drastically different Latino cultures. Rubio is a white racist Cuban ⌠an âexilioâ as theyâre sometimes called. The surging demographic is Latinos of Mexican heritage who still have a deep connection to that culture. Cubans and Mexicans are about as likely to bond together politically and culturally as Germans and Frenchmen - or, if you insist on a common language, as English speakers from London and Jamaica. Not only will a Cuban candidate not necessarily appeal to a Mexican electorate; a white racist exilio Cuban candidate will not even appeal to a large majority of South Floridian Cuban voters. Soon, if not already, it wonât even be a majority. Add to all this that Rubio is a tongue-tied goofball and you can pretty much stick an apple in his mouth and be done with it.
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Do you have any statistics LOL. I believe we have quite a mix
Makes me hysterical. The only thing this guy has is a nice speaking voice.
Its crazy to think the GOP is dead. Every white guy I know in my area is a Republican (OK, the GOP was âbornâ 10 miles from me.)
It will only die if Democrats, in the interest of âpurityâ stab themselves in the heart.
The purity meme is false too. Many of these people arenât Democrats at all.
Sure, they respond every few years - such as those years when the Democrats pitch a believable populist message- but they are unattached to a party.
Lots of people out there simply donât pay much attention to politics. Its not easy reaching them.
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Rubio, Cruz, and Carson are all very sad to me. They think that they can be legitimate candidates in a political party that a.) will refuse to truly support them because they arenât white b.) forces them to turn their backs on people of their own race to pander to the white majority that will inevitably turn its back on them.
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Aside from his political views, the other factor working against Rubio when it comes to Latinos is that he is Cuban. Those of us who arenât Cubans canât relate to him or vice-versa when talking about immigration reform.
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Heâs more like the opposite end where lipstick should go, but anyway.
Republicans are not trying to help Americans by protecting workers from foreign competition. Rather, they are offended by what they view as unworthy Americansâ ingratitude and sloth towards their generosity of $9 per hour.
Every plank of the GOP platform leads towards forcing US citizens to work for immigrantsâ low wages, crappy benefits and sharply curtailed legal rights.
Putting a pretty face and a happy story on it changes nothing.
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HA! Thatâs what I thought too!
So true!
I worked with three different women of latin decent. All college grads, all very talented, and all could not stand one another.
One was a wet foot dry foot Cuban, that had a superiority complex that belittled the other two. One was from Puerto Rico and the other was from Peru. The Cuban would call her two work mates the Spanish n word. I am not kidding.
The gal from Puerto Rico would do the same to the gal from Peru (who was drop dead gorgeous by the way). I couldnât believe how they treated each other. The Cuban thought she was better then all of them. The Puerto Rican thought she was better. The Peruvian couldnât believe either of them and thought they were both stupid.
And, if a document needed translating, the document would come back with three different translations. All Spanish, all colloquial. One word could mean something entirely different in each county.
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As Iâve said before, Iâve been an election inspector for the last 10 years or so, and old folks are by far the most reliable voters. In fact, at the last off-year election I think there were more voters over 80 than there were under 30.
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I most important thing the Democtars can do to insure A Democratic electoral victory is to do away with VOTING MACHINES. I believe that the 2010 and 2014 Republican victories are a direct result the FIXING of the results reported by these machines. All credable observer report that these machines have a âHIGH POTENTIAL FOR MANIPULATIONâ and we know that the Republican political operatives will use any means to achieve their goals lead me to that conclusion.
âDemocracy is more in the counting of votes than in the casting of themâ Crispin Hull - Canberra News
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He reminds me of the kid who ran for class president each year to establish his âleadershipâ creds.
the media is as useless as the GOP
Ted Cruz is the a-hole and the GOP is the ass. I totally get this metaphorical line of reasoning.
Everyone jump in.
I would have thought that Hispanics would jump at the opportunity to vote for an Hispanic. Also, the Republicans are often âcandidate envyâ and âCharisma Envyâ (we got Kennedy, they were stuck with Nixon who was a sour puss even when he won).
So, I think many Republicans, deep down inside, also have Obama envy. Just for once theyâd like to be first. And to have a future they need to penetrate some minority group. So I think there will be big Mo for Rubio: he would be the 1st Latino (a 1st first for the GOP) candidate nominated for President, it would give them a prayer to suck off some more latino vote, and would give them a young energetic guy instead of a tired out old guy like Bob Dole for a change, and would be especially favorable when the Dems are running a 68 year old women.
I would think that would be alluring to many Republicans.
On the other hand, I would attribute much of that 25% Latino vote to Republicans a result of past Catholic bishops telling Catholics to vote GOP. That tide has definitely turned with the new pope. And I think you have to be a pretty old and hard hearted Cuban to still be affected by anti-castroism as being the single reason for voting Republican. So, I think, with or without Rubio, GOP Latino numbers could fall to 20% this year.
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I would bet Josh is younger then most of us.
I donât know what the hell this author has been reading but âthe mediaâ is in no âfrenzyâ over Rubio⌠There is no âRubio-mentumâ.
Way to make a story out of absolutely nothing, BuzzfeeâŚer⌠TPM.
Canât speak for TPM, but the average poster on DKos according to their own measurements is a white guy in his 50s.