Republicans’ Hispanic problem — in 2 charts (updated)

[ProSense]

Republicans’ Hispanic problem — in 2 charts

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake

New data from an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll that show President Obama leading former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney by 34 points among Hispanics set off a new round of speculation about whether Republicans can win in November if they can’t narrow that margin.

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Here’s the full readout on how Hispanics have voted for president since 1972:



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The second chart details the growth of the Hispanic vote as a proportion of the overall electorate. While it remains true that Hispanics are neither registered to vote nor turn out to vote in anything close to commensurate with their size in the overall U.S. population, Latinos’ percentage of the entire electorate has increased in each of the past four elections and is now more than four times as high as it was in 1992.

Here’s the chart detailing the rising percentage of Latinos as a portion of the overall electorate:



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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/republicans-hispanic-problem--in-2-charts/2012/05/24/gJQAIBTqmU_blog.html

Updated to add:

Breaking! Romney thinks Hispanics are stupid.

by TexMex

News reports a day ago reported that Romeny was going to speak to at the Latino Coalition conference.

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A google search show mostly news items announcing the coming speech with words like "looks to open", "to apeal to" "begins to stir"

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Then we get an article detailing something he did say.

UPDATE 2-Romney opens new front vs Obama: schools are failing
By Sam Youngman and Laura MacInnis

WASHINGTON/REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 23 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney opened a new front on Wednesday in his fight against President Barack Obama, accusing him of presiding over a failing U.S. education system in the grip of union bosses who refuse to accept reforms.

Yes, Hispanic really care about education, but he thinks we don't know that Republicans have been cheating Hispanic kids for years. LBJ tried to and did open opportunities for Hispanic Americans that Republicans have been trying to shut ever since the 60's.

Right now in Texas there have been massive cuts in education by Republican Rick Perry inspite of the fact that Texas has a rainy day fund to help Texas schools through a financial crisis, but Republicans don't care.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/24/1094408/-Breaking-Romney-thinks-Hispanics-are-stupid-

[get the red out]

1. Republicans' Hispanic Problem

Their problem with anyone who isn't of white, European ancestry is the same; they are racist as hell!

[onehandle]

2. I thought we were supposed to say 'Latino,' not Hispanic. What's PC?

I call them the 'little brown ones' myself. Me and Poppy Bush.

[pampango]

3. Mitt has to dump the teabagger/ALEC/Kris Kobach/Joe Arpaio anti-immigrant wing of the party

if he is going to have any chance to win even a significant minority of the Hispanic vote.

In the end, I think he will figure that their hatred of Obama will keep them from staying home even if they are mad that he tracks away from his hard-right immigration stance from the debates and primaries when he felt he had to appeal to the teabaggers.

[ProSense]

4. Yup,

he's running an anti-Latino campaign.

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There's no great mystery as to how the Republican reached this point. Romney has already said he's an opponent of the DREAM Act; he's palling around with Pete Wilson and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach; he endorses a "self-deportation" agenda; he's critical of bilingualism; and his casual dismissals of "amnesty" and "illegals" are a staple of his campaign rhetoric. It's why Romney has successfully alienated Latino voters to such a remarkable degree.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/24/11860068-pushing-latino-voters-away

[uponit7771]

5. The Obama admin should tie his own words around his stupid neck for all to see