GOP risking Latino voters

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-gopimmig_07tex.ART.State.Edition2.903f30d.html

Immigration proposals could reverse party's gains with Hispanics



The volatile debate over immigration is creating numerous divides, but none may be more pronounced than the split in the Republican Party.

Conservative proposals that would criminalize illegal immigrants and those who help them – along with the huge demonstrations nationwide against such plans – threaten to isolate Republicans from a base of support that they have worked for years to court: the fast-growing Latino population.

If Hispanics bolt the GOP because of immigration, it would erase the inroads George W. Bush has made in opening the party to the group, both as Texas governor and president. What's more, a strong Latino turnout could help Democrats win control of Congress in the November elections and change the landscape in the next presidential race.

"There's a generation of young Latinos being politicized right now. They're not going to vote on immigration all their lives," said Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute. "If they think one party is hostile to people who look like them, even if that party has better answers to some of the things they care about, it's going to be hard for them to pull the lever for that party."

[ThomWV]

1. Its OK. George Is Going To Kiss Their Ass In Prime time

Next speech.

[TahitiNut]

4. He'll kiss corporate ass ... and advocate a non-voting working class.

The least-paid workers in this country are increasingly unable to vote, either because they're not citizens or because they're ex-felons. The more people completely dependent upon some employer to both remain in this country or get health care insurance then the more the corporatists have the 'ownership society' that antebellum plantation owners embraced.

[Lefty48197]

2. Considering the rapidly growing Hispanic-American population

and the political influence that comes with it, I am quite pleased that the Republicans are trying to alienate the Hispanic-American community. I welcome them with open arms into our party.

[UTUSN]

3. "our party" --where they should have been all along.

It's more like, Hispanics-risked-the-Greedy/Old/Puke-party.

[madrchsod]

5. there were millions in the streets across this country

millions more at work and at home that believe they should be treated fairly. if the democrats can`t find a way to welcome them into the party then the democrats will never win a presidency again. now is the time but i`m not holding my breath.