The importance of Kaine's speaking Spanish.

I was making the point in another thread that being both catholic and spanish speaking is likely to attract some cuban americans who usually vote republican. Not only he is delivering virginia, he is going to give us florida.

.....Univision and telemundo will be line up... My in laws will be able to understand the democratic position...

They deserve for our candidates to be able to speak to them directly, to give them that respect. I love that he brings that to the table.

Kaine is delivering a barn-burner of a speech.


He is the SUNNIEST guy on the campaign trail.

I am very very impressed! Really bright, really warm and human. And, although I am certainly no expert on this, his Spanish sounds beautiful to me. Hilary makes very good choices, I think.
Pandering? REALLY!??!!!! That's nonsense.

Some who speak English themselves look down on those who are not bilingual.

But, I think he does appeal to the majority. I hope so anyway.

In the late 1850s, Abraham Lincoln bought controlling interest in a German-language newspaper, the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, but kept his involvement a closely held secret. He used the newspaper to cull support from the large German population across the mid-West (the West, at that time), as the Editor wrote numerous editorials and biographical sketches extolling Mr Lincoln's character and intent, articles which were then picked up by other German-language newspapers across the country. Mr Lincoln handily carried the German vote in 1860 (which was considerable, as many had immigrated to the US after the failed Continental revolutions of 1848*), assuring himself of the Presidency, at which time he quietly divested himself of the newspaper.

Not totally analogous, but indicative of a potential return from Tim Kaine's more intimate involvement with a demographic Donald Trump has done his best to alienate.



http://age-of-the-sage.org/history/1848/revolution_of_1848.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848

choice. Well, they didn't exactly say "Hillary or bust." But they may as well have said it. I think Kaine gives some fence-sitters a chance to save face and join with us just because of the Kaine selection! I admit, I thought Hillary was making a mistake even though I like Kaine. So glad I was wrong!