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I would suggest that the Hispanic roofer/carpenter/plumber/contractor/business owner who is looking across the street at the illegal immigrants doing the same job he is played a huge roll.
Most Hispanics are Roman Catholic and her extreme left wing view of the social issues did not sit well with them. She should have at least toned down her rhetoric on late term abortion, repealing the Hyde Amendment, and support for Planned Parenthood if she wanted to win any segment of the population that is largely Roman Catholic.
Perhaps because he is a man, Obama was not nearly as vocal about these issues.
P.S. I am NOT a Hillary voter, just adding my $.02.
I would suggest that the Hispanic roofer/carpenter/plumber/contractor/business owner who is looking across the street at the illegal immigrants doing the same job he is played a huge roll.
^^^ This.
I know plenty of Hispanics, legal residents and citizens, most of them independent small business owners and executive class professionals, who did not support Bill Clinton's wife, main reason being they don't need to be told that they are some contrived group of dependent idiots.
Why people think Hispanic is are one unified block I have no idea. Liberals seem to think all minorities think the same way which is racist. There are liberal and conservative Hispanics just like there are liberal and Conservative white people. A Cuban American who fled a communist revolution has little in common with a Mexican migrant worker in California other than they both speak Spanish.
A Mexican American who went through the hassle of immigrating here legally or was born and raised here for generations isn't going to be the first to embrace someone who's simply just sneaking in.
Mexico has 10 political parties, yet everybody thinks here they suddenly can be 100% represented by just one.
I was watching PBS on election night. Around 2 Am, a correspondent claimed to have demographic results from early Hispanic voters in Miami-Dade: it showed that 40% of Hispanic males voted not Clinton. The correspondent cited possible sexism as the reason. The day of the election a poll was released showing Hispanics in Florida against illegal immigration by a slight margin.
Hillary choose to lump them in with the illegal immigrants, which is foolish considering in the southwest many Hispanic families have been here since it was Mexico, and have no interest in being combined with a group of law breakers, many of those families are just like everybody else. OUtside of the liberal corporate strongholds the rest of us are struggling to pay bills, find suitable jobs, and to keep roofs over our heads. They were not buying that the last 8 years have been great or that the next 4 years being like the last 8 years was good for the rest of us. Add that to the anti-catholic rhetoric coming from Hillary, and she should be happy she did as well as she did.
Like it or not without the media pushing Hillary's message of how terrible Trump was and what a racist he was, I would guess that Hillary would have actually done much worse with the Hispanic vote. There are just too many low information voters out there that only watched a few commercials and the news occasionally that voted for Hillary.
I think one factor is that "Hispanics are all not the same". Some Mexicans hate Cubans, some Cubans hate people from Chile, some people from Chile hate Mexicans, etc, etc. When Trump was saying we need to keep out illegals, each of those groups thought he meant the other group.
I think one factor is that "Hispanics are all not the same". Some Mexicans hate Cubans, some Cubans hate people from Chile, some people from Chile hate Mexicans, etc, etc. When Trump was saying we need to keep out illegals, each of those groups thought he meant the other group.
Thanks for calling a spade a spade ...
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