Romney begins courting Hispanic voters in key battlegrounds

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LOL.

But on a serious note he does have to start courting Hispanic voters and in general trying to make immigrants and their descendents feel comfortable with him. If I was him, I would have him mention how much he loves legal immigration whenever he has the opportunity, and even when he doesn't. This will help him with both Hispanics and Asians who may not be enamored with Obama but don't look at the Republicans as a serious opposition.

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LOL.

But on a serious note he does have to start courting Hispanic voters and in general trying to make immigrants and their descendents feel comfortable with him. If I was him, I would have him mention how much he loves legal immigration whenever he has the opportunity, and even when he doesn't. This will help him with both Hispanics and Asians who may not be enamored with Obama but don't look at the Republicans as a serious opposition.

The odd thing, is that Hispanics really don't matter this election with the possible exception of AZ, or if it is really tight, where they are a small percentage, but where near every vote counts. In other words, I think NV and Colorado will be more Dem than the nation this time, and those states will not be the pivot point even if Mittens manages to get another 5%-7% or so of the Hispanic vote by working it assiduously and with skill, than is a reasonable expectation now.

I got one word for you, Virginia. Also the Asian vote is substantial there. You know, some of these Republicans think they are being cute and want to win an election or two with some racist/xenophobic appeals but it will bite them in the ass soon enough. And if they think it only hurts them with Hispanics, they must be dreaming. It hurts them with Asians as well. So they are alienating the two fastest groups in America along with single women who are growing as well. Planning for the future huh?

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Oh sure. In AZ the Republicans had a huge budget deficit, and couldn't blame the Democrats so they blamed the Mexicans. And they won re-election. Of course there's a good chance AZ will become a lean D state by the end of the decade. I disagree that Hispanics aren't already having an impact on this election ignoring Virginia. Hispanics have consistently not given Obama an approval rating much over 50-55%. Yet they will likely vote more than 65% for him. A differential is always expected since some of the disapproval comes from lefties and some from those who have a problem with the Republican candidate for whatever reason, but not to that degree. I think that might be enough to impact the result in CO, where the white population is the type Mitt will do much better with. So a toss up becomes a lean D state.

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Yup, he has a problem in CO beyond Hispanics which is why he would lose right now.

And my comments on AZ are tendentitious? So you don't think that was a great tactic to make sure the voters forgot all about the budget deficit? You think they wanted the police to check the papeles of every brown and possibly unamerican person out of the goodness of their heart? Or just their racist beliefs? Hey, I was trying to give them some credit.

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Yup, he has a problem in CO beyond Hispanics which is why he would lose right now.

And my comments on AZ are tendentitious? So you don't think that was a great tactic to make sure the voters forgot all about the budget deficit? You think they wanted the police to check the papeles of every brown and possibly unamerican person out of the goodness of their heart? Or just their racist beliefs? Hey, I was trying to give them some credit.

No, there was a lot of publicity about chaos on the AZ border, and anger at the Obama administration for not doing more to make it permeable. I don't know the details of the budget deficit, but I doubt it was due to Pub profligacy. The AZ law by the way prohibited profiling is my recollection.  

The budget deficit was due to the housing bubble of course. As for spending, pubbies love the cops and prison unions while the democrats love the teachers and firefighters. You remember Whitman's deals, don't you? Of course Republicans are never willing to raise taxes, which is sometimes necessary especially when you have to balance your budget every year. Ideally you would raise taxes during the good years to build up a surplus for the bad ones.

Also while I am sure the law did prohibit profiling, what mechanisms were in place to ensure it did not occur? If the cops automatically checked your immigration status if you were some sort of Brown or Asian (perhaps even Blacks, gotta get those Haitians!) how could you prevent that? They could make up any reason they wanted and it was your word against them, and you know how that goes usually. So legal residents and citizens would get harassed due to no fault of their own. And if you were a brown from Washington, Utah or New Mexico, and you made the mistake of going to Arizona with just your driver's license, you might end up in Mexico! Also a brown who went for a walk without his wallet...yup Mexico for him as well. Protect the goddamn border, ensure workers are legal before they get a job and don't harass everyday citizens! Not really a hard concept. And don't be surprised if those who would get harassed won't like it too much, regardless of whether they are protestants or catholics. AZ Hispanics will start voting like the ones in CA. And it's the Republicans fault completely.

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Increased border patrols with more air surveillance and strategic fencing, E-verify and amnesty for those who have been living here lawfully (don't even give me the bullsh**t about how they already broke the law). Boom, Immigration issue solved. Someone give me a medal.