"McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide" (voters, illegal)

[walidm]

"...John McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin that is well below President George W. Bush's 2004 performance.

Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters of any Democrat in a decade, while McCain is struggling to reach 30 percent, closer to Senator Bob Dole's dismal 1996 result than to Bush's historic 40% four years ago."
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[LordBalfor]

Of course.
I've said that all along (remember way back when there were all those silly Obamabasher threads claiming that Obama can't get the Hispanic vote because Hispanics and Blacks don't get along).

The fact is, with so much illegal alien hatred (which all too often ends up transmuting into hatred against Hispanics in general) coming out of the far Right Wing of the GOP, how can ANY thinking person not realize that it will alienate Hispanics in general. That's a BIG problem for the GOP - especially when you consider how fast that group is growing.

It was a very, very, very stupid move (one of many) on the part of Republicans. They REALLY needed to rein in the general Hispanic attacks by so many of their members - to condemn them and distance themselves from those folks, and they failed to do (and in fact sometimes embraced them).

Ken

[walidm]

The Pew Reports support your assessment. The Senator is poised to garner an unprecedented amount of the Latino vote.