I keep hearing it was terrible but Biden won 66% of the Hispanic vote. That's decent

[DemocratSinceBirth]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html

Hillary and Barack were in the high sixties/low seventies.

Plus they're not a monolith. I know this from personal experience and learning.

[whathehell]

1. It is decent.

and you're right -- They are NOT a monolith and the party needs to recognize that fact and approach them accordingly.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. If you tell me that is our baseline going forward I would be ecstatic.

[whathehell]

7. It's something they definitely need to do..n/t

[lame54]

11. It is decent but...

What is happening to too many of them is anything but decent

Should have been a lot higher than decent

[BusyBeingBest]

2. I'm already tired of the "what did dems do wrong? They should do some

soul-searching" crap when literally all sorts of fascist hell is breaking loose right now.

[JonLP24]

6. +1000

[whathehell]

9. I agree. It's garbage. We Dems are slated to win ..Why in Hell

would WE need to "soul search"? The Repukes -- for SO many reasons -- need that advice.

[BusyBeingBest]

10. They're wrecking the foundation of democracy at this very moment, and

Joe Biden is supposed to ponder his appeal to some assholes in South Florida or Texas that liked Hillary or Beto a little better than him.

[whathehell]

16. I'm not sure

what you mean by "ponder his appeal".

[BusyBeingBest]

17. He's supposed to do soul searching to figure out why certain groups in certain states

shaved a few points off his returns. They were saying he had a problem with various Latino groups. Not even sure that's the case, but right at the moment we've got much bigger fish to fry.

[whathehell]

18. Yeah, I agree.

but it's hard to understand why the media seems to JUMP on the smallest mistakes of the Dems, while largely ignoring the huge one made by Republicans.

One of the problems with American journalists, is they seem loathe to "push back" on Right Wing memes. They just accept and repeat them WITHOUT even asking them for definitions of certain words and phrases,

A case in point would be "The Deep State". I almost laughed when I first heard
it, and despite it's silly, spy novel implications, I've never heard ANYONE ask it's question it's meaning, which, with continued use, is tantamount to accepting it as a reality. . As it happens, "The Deep State" means nothing more than government workers.
That's right -- government bureaucrats. My husband is a former Food and Drug inspector, so I kid him about being part of the "The Deep State" -- Were it only that exciting.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. That is so true.

There is a pecking order among the various Hispanic Countries that is in play here in the US. And within those individual Immigrant Groups,there is a Pecking order by which City or State from which they immigrated.

What one can learn from working with a Immigrant or Refugee will only broaden ones true understanding of how or why things happen.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. A person who thinks a Cuban is A Mexican is a Puerto Rican is A Dominican is a fool.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Oh how well I found out.

Stepped between a couple workers who wanted to rumble to see which country had the biggest pair of Brass ones.

A our Educational System will never go there and educate the non Immigrants . We as a Nation is failing our own People as to the value of a Immigrants.

[W_HAMILTON]

5. Actually, all those demographics look pretty positive for Biden.

Given that there are still many votes left to count -- and they are most likely to favor Biden -- I wouldn't be surprised if it shows that he did pretty damn well across most of the demographic groups.

[whathehell]

15. I'm not sure that's true of the Cubans and Venezuelans, unfortunately

For historical reasons, they are vulnerable to "Socialism" scare tactics.

That said, I believe the country has more Mexican Americans and others inclined to vote Democratic.

[BainsBane]

12. It's significantly down from Clinton's share

in key areas like Miami-Dade and the Rio Grande Valley. NV is also very tight.

[JI7]

19. Clinton had a longtime relationship with the community

and Tim Kaine lived and worked in Latin America and was fluent in Spanish. I remember people criticizing the Kaine pick but looks like she knew what she was doing.

So they were less likely to believe the attacks on her.

[hamsterjill]

14. In Texas, Latinos are dying from COVID at enormous rates

Yet they still vote for Trump. How does one go about explaining that to them when it should be obvious? Half of the Trump Train attendees are Hispanic. So, they’ve got some hate coming from somewhere.

[octoberlib]

20. Yeah, the problem is Florida. There was one county in the Rio Grande Valley that

Hillary won and Joe lost but he did great in AZ.

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