Giantaxe

Consider the source... it was just another lame attempt to take a dig at Clinton.

Lion in Winter

Well yes, but someone has to uphold the quality of the digs around here.

I mean, standards, etc.

sir_eccles

Indeed, having Florida as his home state is much more important than trying to appeal to the various Latino and Hispanic groups (they are not a single voting bloc).

WEBlue

???

Are you referring to her endorsement by former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro in mid-October? The fact that HC gamely tried a few words of Spanish for the mostly-Hispanic crowd was not nearly so important to them as were her ideas (conveyed in English) on immigration reform, and how they differ from those ideas of Trump, Cruz, Rubio, et al.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/us...s-backing.html

As for HC's supposed southern and black (?) accents, I'd love to know where you've heard these...

FlaviusAetius

Actually, I predicted that Clinton would pick Julian Castro as her running mate:As for her fake southern and black accents, Google: "Clinton southern accent" and "Clinton black accent" for examples.

Nutmegger

Hillary lived in Arkansas for many years, and is married to an Arkansan. This forum abounds in folks who will tell you how their accents have unconsciously adapted to their surroundings and the prevailing modes of local speech.

RoadWarriorFromLP

Immigration is a key issue for non-Cuban Latinos, an issue that is less important to Cubans who benefit from favorable treatment. And the vast majority of Latinos in the US are of Mexican descent; relatively few are Cuban. They may seem similar to outsiders, but the Cuban and predominately Mexican Latino communities don't have much cultural affinity for one another.

The GOP fires on all of the wrong cylinders to win over a voting bloc that wants lenient immigration laws, for obvious reasons. Republicans like to talk about the importance of the Latino vote, then go out of their way to alienate them for the sake of the white populist vote.

dc koop

Cruz is riding on a wave of mid west Evangelical support but Evangelicals don't mean snot in California or New York. His Hispanic name wont do him any good either in getting the vote of that group. Cruz represents everything that is contrary to the hopes of the rising Hispanic middle class.

If you don't win California and New York you don't win the election

As for Bernie, who wants someone who intends to raise taxes to pay for his ambitious social programs? Not I. I pay too much tax already

That leaves the unlovable Hillary. What a rotten choice it may turn out to be. I think I'll skip voting for either of them and just vote on our State Ballot Propositions only.

zargof

This sums up the GOP caucus very well...

Trump beaten by man who really believes all the horrible things he says

RoadWarriorFromLP

Not even close. The GOP can't win those states, period, nor did they need to in 2000 and 2004.

The swing/ purple states will decide the election. Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, etc.

FlaviusAetius

The Latino vote is not necessarily monolithic. Although they usually vote about 80% for the Democratic Party, many have conservative family values, religious values and aspirations to succeed economically that provides an insertion point for the right Republican candidate to cut significantly into that 80%. I am speaking from the experience of having represented hundreds of them over the past 35 years and having been on the board of a major Hispanic organization in east central Pennsylvania.

I can also state that immigration is not at the top of the list of issues amongst those with whom I am familiar. For example, a lot of them send their kids to Catholic school, which many of them can ill afford, rather than use the public schools. They are anxious to get and keep jobs, and massive new waves of people from Central America are competing with them for those jobs.

The ones I am familiar with are hardworking and honest, straightforward people who are trying to provide a better life for their kids. What I have seen over the years is that parents who speak no English bring their kids to translate. By the third generation, the kids know almost no Spanish unless they take it in school. I believe they are becoming assimilated perhaps as rapidly as the Italians who came here in a wave in the early 20th century.

Leslie

Donald Trump aged 10 years overnight.

Leslie

Good to know you got a laugh at that smarmyface's expense.



We don't know. Nobody knows what the hell is going on once you get to this stage of the election.

Leslie

You're aiming at my throat?!?!?

moneypenny20

I notice I became an American in that post So you mean you do know what's going on prior to this stage?