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Hortensis

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11. NY Times reported some "fed-up" immigrants are

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 05:49 AM

Apr 2016

becoming U.S. citizens to vote against Trump. Fortunately, it appears most blame the GOP for him.

I'm afraid this Houston Chronicle author's view of GOP racial history is extremely overly kind. The GOP hasn't been anything Lincoln would join for going on 150 years. It has had many shots at becoming the party of conservative Latinos, never liberal, but instead might as well have been trying to drive them into a unified force against the GOP.

I hope this author is at least right when he says they're now awakened. We've not been hearing nearly enough about what's going on with such a potentially huge power block in America, or not. Even this late most articles are all speculation. Everyone's wondering -- will they finally rock the vote? According to Pew, of almost 57 million Latinos, 27 million are eligible to vote.

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Latino vote, a sleeping giant, has been awakened [View all] Tarc Apr 2016 OP

Perfectly stated.. busterbrown Apr 2016 #1

NY Times reported some "fed-up" immigrants are Hortensis Apr 2016 #11

Bernie is gonna win the Latino vote in California. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2016 #2

Except they're too smart to think he was invited to the Vatican by the Pope. pnwmom Apr 2016 #3

You keep trying to equate Bernie and Kim Davis Scootaloo Apr 2016 #4

They both tried -- and failed -- to use the Pope in a publicity stunt. pnwmom Apr 2016 #5

TAKE PRIMARY TALK TO THE GD-P, please. Hortensis Apr 2016 #9

Alternately, you're motivated by your own irrational hatred of the man Scootaloo Apr 2016 #15

'wangle an invite', 'waylaid the Pope', 'polite handshake, nothing more'. appalachiablue Apr 2016 #13

Here is an article from a Catholic source. pnwmom Apr 2016 #14

Those articles have been seen and the subject has been well covered already. appalachiablue Apr 2016 #17

My words reflected those from multiple articles. "Wangle" and "angle" an invite mean the same thing. pnwmom Apr 2016 #18

Got it, the first time. appalachiablue Apr 2016 #22

I think so, too. Major Hogwash Apr 2016 #7

No, I'm sorry. We Latinos wach and read the news. We know what really went down lunamagica Apr 2016 #21

They should have already been mobilized against the current President. For all of the talk about Chakab Apr 2016 #6

You might want to watch this video BigBearJohn Apr 2016 #8

PRIMARY TALK, belongs on the GD-P. Hortensis Apr 2016 #10

I thought you were talking about the Latino vote, so I posted a Latino video. What's wrong? BigBearJohn Apr 2016 #12

Mostly that the talk isn't going in his candidate's favor Scootaloo Apr 2016 #16

He lost the Latino vote in NY lunamagica Apr 2016 #24

Asian communitues, too. For a long time, many asians were republicans. AgadorSparticus Apr 2016 #19

33% of Hispanicss say the economy is the #1 issue. Hortensis Apr 2016 #20

Shhh... Jeffersons Ghost Apr 2016 #23