Apparently, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hasn’t read the news about Latino voting power.
As Sandra Hernandez writes for the Los Angeles Times:
“Mitt Romney’s failure to attend the National Council of La Raza’s annual meeting held in Las Vegas this week is drawing fire from some critics who suggest the Republican nominee’s decision to send a video in his place is an insult to Latinos.
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“Romney’s failure to address NCLR — the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights group — is really a lost opportunity for the candidate, not an insult. The GOP knows it has a problem with Latinos. The conference would have been a good opportunity for their candidate to address the elephant in the room — the idea that the GOP doesn’t care about Latinos and their presidential nominee believes undocumented immigrants should self deport. Instead, Romney stayed away.”
When will Romney and the GOP learn that no one can win the White House unless they have a significant slice of the Latino community behind them — about 40 percent of Latinos, to be exact. George W. netted 44 percent of the vote in 2004, while Sen. McCain only received 31 percent.
I’d bet my thumbs the Romney campaign is well aware of these numbers.
There’s no way in Arizona the Romney campaign can pull 40 percent of the Latino vote this year, not if his message and that of his party remain the same. Describing SB 1070 as a “model for the country” and advocating a immigration strategy lovingly called “self-deportation” — which means Pres. Romney would make things so bad for the undocumented that they’d opt to live a better life in Sinaloa — is akin to an entire party spraying itself with Latino repellent. And when 90 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act (85 percent a pathway to citizenship in general), the current GOP rhetoric on immigration is bound to keep an overwhelming majority of Latinos away from the “Grumpy Old People” for a very long time.
Maybe Romney and the GOP have given up on winning the Latino vote, at least in this decade. If so, they should let Latinos know, so we can slap on our Obama 2012 bumper stickers already.
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The fact that he blatantly ignored NCLR request for a “visit” may or not be insulting to some, but what is insulting is the GOP considering Rubio as his running mate! Oh look I have a Latino(white hispanic) as my running mate so you must vote for me! OBAMA 2012!!!
HELL NO!
Obama is shooting himself in the ass for ignoring the constitution.
we shouldnt worry about groups, are these politicians focusing on our rights as individuals? thats the question.. and so far he nor Obama could car less about us
Who gives a shit? Ron Paul 2012 hands down.
what i seen the politicians are ignoring latinos.. not good..
Or is he shooting himself in the foot ignoring he is Latino lol
He rather lose White then win Latino lol
dum de dum……
I saw Romney first hand speaking at Miami Dade College earlier this year. The guy talked the talk, but turned right around he walked right past a group of students who were trying to ask him why he didn’t support The Dream Act. WHATEVER ROMNEY.
Politicians are very well informed of the numbers and every move they do has been assessed by an entire team on that note there is a strategic move on every thing they do during campaign
Yeah, and the best part is, last year very early on, Romeny said “If you don’t support the Dream Act then you have no heart”. Then, during the Primaries, he said “If the Dream Act passes, I would VETO it!” And NOW he’s criticizing Obama for the iniciative he just put in place for Dreamers saying that “Obama didn’t do enough for them! It should have been a permanent solution, not just a two year temporary one!” SO WTF IS IT???? This is by far not the only time he’s radically changed his views on key issues!
Among other reasons..
President Obama isnt perfect on policies. For all idoits prev comments Ron Paul or constitution…its the system not President. You have one party fighting so you can get education..low house income assistance
Romney lost us when he tried to claim being latino and was against the dream act
idiots* Vote for Ron Paul worked out great for Bush..we all know that worked out great especially in Florida.Get a clue people..Obama isn’t putting in policies to req documents because you look Latino or suppressing people of color from voting
no. who wants romney? only hispanics. latin@s stand in SOLIDARITY with black people and working class people. big difference.
Romney shot himself in the foot a long time ago!
Or are Latinos finding it hard to follow a mormon?
What fucking moronic idiot would vote for this rich white ass mankering bastard?
he already lost
But it’s not all about you Latinos. The country doesn’t just exist for you. And it doesn’t matter how many legal Latinos there are. I hope the illegals won’t be voting. Or is that why you all get upset with voter Id laws because you know the illegals will be voting for your guy and you don’t want to ruin a good thing.
he needs to wak up! cuz sorry, us latinos are the most fastest growing population!
Course he his. He don’t wanna work for it pfffsh he’s for 1% congress.
@ Lexi …we just got outnumbered by the chinese lol theyre the new minority…so does that mean we’re the majority & what we say goes lol
this mother fucker is going to loose