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1StrongBlackMan

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3. Green? I don't think that even matters ...

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Mon Apr 23, 2012, 11:57 AM

Apr 2012

Let's see ... picking Rubio in order to be more attractive to the Hispanic electorate, shows how tone deaf the teaparty/gop really is.

Cuban-Americans make up approximately 3.5% of the U.S. Hispanic population, compare that to the 66% of Mexican origin.

Any conversation with any immigrant group of Hispanic origin will quickly reveal that Cubans do not share many common interests with the other Hispanic immigrant groups. In fact, here in the southwest (Arizona), there appears to by a measure of animus between the two groups.

So, IMHO, picking Rubio will help the teaparty/gop with the Hispanic electorate about as much as picking Sowell or Thomas would help the teaparty/gop gain favor with the African-American electorate.

And that's to say, not much.

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