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A New Latino Mix

Florida's electorate gets more complex. Who benefits?

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  • Posted By: waldyf @ 12/07/2008 1:37:45 PM

    It is my hope that my fellow Americans of Puerto Rican heritage will come to realise that the values of the Republican party, are the same values that they themselves have long cherished. Not just " Pan Teirra Y Libertad" but those every day values that we once took for granted. The values inherent in the love of God,family and country. Decency,honor and dignity. Respect and admiration of our older citizens, and our women.

  • Posted By: mdatucson @ 10/23/2008 2:09:25 AM

    to krohnz . . .apparently you didn't get the memo . .Mrs. Annenberg is a McCain supporter. Listed as one of McCain's VIP supporters no less . . . .

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 4:52:03 PM

    FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
    knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

  • Posted By: vicenteduq @ 09/30/2008 7:03:39 PM

    Excellent Article on Florida Latinos. It shows good research from the writer Mr Arian Campo-Flores.

    I wish I could have fresher electoral polls and data about Florida Latinos, but that may be difficult due to the many varieties as this article explains.

    Unfortunately for Democrats those Colombians and Venezuelans can be easy pray for the Republican Party, due to their experiences in their own countries, the FARC guerrillas and the Crazy Absurd Leftist Guy that Chavez is. I know a lot about that and I follow those events. Those South American immigrants may have some "Post Stress Disorder" or Perturbation and they may relate Obama ( mistakenly ) as a Leftist.

    Obama is years light removed from a guerrilla assasin and terrorist in Colombia or a red shirt Chavista fool, a lazy guy that does not work and is bought by the petrodollars that rain over Venezuela.

    I hope that those Latinos in Florida start to read good magazines like Newsweek and Time, or the New York Times. It would not hurt if they consult the Huffington Post or Politico.com, so that they see that McCain is not the saviour of North America or South America and much less the World at large.

    I love Miami and the Cubans, guys who drank coffee with me many times in that city, but that were extremely right wing.

    I have always loved Newsweek since I was a child and my father bought it for me, even if he could not read English. And I am very elated that Newsweek publishes articles on Latinos. According to Demographic trends it is possible that Newsweek will publish many more.


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    I have a Blog on Young Voters, Race and Demographics :

    http://milenials.blogspot.com/

    Right Now and after November 5, I will work collecting data on Racial Votes, Ethnic Material of Voters, Demographies and so on.

    Vicente Duque

    • Posted By: katty @ 10/22/2008 2:23:43 PM

      I am South American and I am voting for the Obama/Biden ticket, I am also dragging my family to vote. We became citizens 8 years ago and I am thankful that we can have a say and be able to vote.

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:13:06 AM

    This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

    • Posted By: shogun612 @ 10/21/2008 2:58:06 PM

      It seems to me that you you want to believe whatever it is you want to believe. Many of the things that site shows has been refuted by neutral parties, several as a matter of fact yet this is what you hang your hat on. The sad part of this is our country hangs in the balance and while you either are voting your party or voting out of hate it is not for the lve of this country. This country deserves more than blind alegiance to a party or hate for a race. You should respect yourself enough to do that but instead you'd rather cut off your nose to spite your face.

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 8:42:09 PM

    Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

  • Posted By: Esther5725 @ 10/20/2008 6:47:25 PM

    Raza, go out and vote, but before you do, read, read and look into the past of both candidates. I am a minority, not in Florida, but in Arizona by way of California. I will be voting for the guy who has one house, not 13. Dirt can be found on both sides, believe me, McCain has a past with the Mafia, a past with Gordon Liddy and a present with a junkie (wife). So let's tell it like it is. Vote for the lesser of two evils. The way I see it, well, I have to vote from someone who can relate to me as to what I have gone through in my life as a Latina. Unfortunately, McCain knows nothing about the plight of hispanics. His spanish is limited to, "Una cerverza mas", and this is due to HIS wife's business (Budwiser). Vote for the lesser of two evils. Que Dios los bendiga a todos.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 1:01:37 PM

    Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by Obama, 'Dreams of My Father' and 'Audacity of Hope'. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I never emulate WHITE men and BROWN men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

    And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!

    From 'Audacity of Hope', "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 12:50:54 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: Romero @ 10/14/2008 11:21:10 PM

    COLIN POWELL ATTEMPTED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT WHEN BUSH SENIOR RAN IN THE PRIMARIES. HE WAS FORCED OUT OF THE RUNNING. IT WILL BE 100 YEARS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN SOUTH ALLOWS A BLACK CANDIDATE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT FOR THAT MATTER. PLEASE!!!! SMELL THE COFFEE, I AM HISPANIC AND HAVE LIVED IN THIS COUNTRY JUST ABOUT ALL OF MY LIFE. SIGN ME ROMERO

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/12/2008 8:30:38 PM

    THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CANDIDATE!

    NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY HAS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEEN GIVEN SUCH A FREE PASS BY THE PRESS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!

    I AM WAITING FOR A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE IT ON HIS OWN MERIT.

    COLIN POWELL COMES TO MIND!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/10/2008 4:31:12 PM

    CNN Reports Acorn Faking Voter Registrations:

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html?iref=newssearch

  • Posted By: vicenteduq @ 10/10/2008 12:49:56 PM

    Mad McCain = Mucho Loco.

    A Short Message in Spanish that everybody understands :
    "No Vote por Demente, No Vote por Loco, No Vote por Irascible, No Vote Por Impetuoso, No Vote por Irrational, No Vote por Descontrol, No Vote por Furioso, No Vote por arrogante, No Vote por Ignorancia, No Vote por Estupidez, No Vote por Imbecilidad, No Vote por Cretinos."

    Too Many McCain Incidents : lack of mental stability and emotional maturity, short temper, impetuosity and proclivity for high-stakes gambling and also casinos, casinos, McCain gambling in Casinos"


    Uncontrolled reactions and Bad Temper :
    I have heard too many anecdotes of an Uncontrolled, Irascible and Arrogant McCain.
    This is worse than Alzheimer ( Reagan, Thatcher and many others ), This is worse than Racism ( many presidents of the USA ), This is worse than personal cowardice, because many cowards have been excellent politicians and statemen.

    People with Alzheimer can follow good advice and cowards can be super Intelligent and Analytical. Racists can follow the voice of Reason as has happened very often recently ( which will help a lot Mr Obama ).

    The worst in any president is to become mad falling pray to irresponsible actions.

    http://milenials.blogspot.com/

    http://tossUpStates.blogspot.com/

    Vicente Duque

  • Posted By: Jose52 @ 10/10/2008 11:15:44 AM

    There is voter fraud begining!

    However, Acorn has a audit trail of court cases and lawsuits that basically created this Financial Mess. Acorn started their plans during the carter and clinton Years and loosen all of credit standards at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The selling of mortgages to people who had no ability to pay, started the gradual erosion of our financial system. By Acorn and thier attoney Barry Obama, they beat citicorp and then chipped away all of financial controls and then destroyed our present economy. Follow the money. Money from Anneberg to bambi/ Ayers to Acorn, then to congress. Obama started this financial crisis! These are the facts. do not blind yourself to the truth!

  • Posted By: obgyn @ 10/10/2008 10:03:58 AM

    Where was the scrutiny for voter registration when Bush/ Cheney stole the election from Al Gore????

    Mr. Obama was not out there signing people up.
    He cannot scrutinize voter registration, there is a state board that does that.

    I see people with petitions and registrations at the supermarket those people get paid per sign up, so when they are tired they probably just fill them in.
    But it has nothing to do with Mr. Obama.

  • Posted By: obgyn @ 10/10/2008 9:58:47 AM

    Those Latinos better be careful because their people will have a hard time running for office if they allow McCain to get away with politics of Hate, becasue someone who is born in America has a funny sounding or non-American name.

    Latinos/Hispanics do not have American names, so maybe the fear politics mean, we should be afraid of Latinos, they may over throw this country, Mexican may be sleeper cells because they think California and Texas and Arizona belongs to them.
    Who are these Latinos, can we trust what they may do to this country?

    That's the kind of talk politicians with American names will speak in all future elections.

    Everyone, must band together and reject McCain and the Hate he is
    using against Mr. Obama. Call, write, email, fax, your TV, Cable, or newspaper and tell them to stop the media coverage of Hate Speech, from McCain and Palin.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/09/2008 7:47:22 PM

    From: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rnc-obama--acorn-fact/story.aspx?guid=%7B29569FA1-136D-4B95-9D51-4EF9E87ED547%7D&dist=hppr

    Obama's Campaign Paid Over $800,000 To ACORN For Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts, But "Mistakenly Misrepresented" Their Work To The FEC:

    Obama's Campaign "Paid More Than $800,000" To ACORN For Get-Out-The Vote Efforts; The Campaign Originally "Misrepresented" The Group's Work To The FEC. "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports. An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in 'get-out-the-vote' projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary." (David M. Brown, "Obama To Amend Report On $800,000 In Spending," Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 8/22/08)

    The link below describes how some in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN, a group Obama has a long association with. See:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:39:32 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:21:51 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: izme @ 10/09/2008 1:02:43 AM

    VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE
    The upcoming election is the most critical election in the history of our nation. The very future of our nation???s foundation is at stake. Every person will be affected. If the liberals win, then our foundation will no longer be based on traditional morality. It will gradually but assuredly be based on an ever shifting, ever moving foundation. If the liberals win, the damage can???t be stopped with elections two, four or forty years from now. America will forever be changed. We will keep seeing a gradual and growing hostility toward people of faith. The morals of our nation will continue to decline. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price.

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