VOTING DAY 2008

Latinos Go for Obama

From the magazine issue dated Nov 17, 2008

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Hispanic voters didn't just leave their mark on this year's presidential election. They decided it. Four states with sizable Hispanic populations that went for Bush in 2004—Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada—all turned blue this time around, adding 46 crucial electoral votes to the Democratic candidate's winning tally.

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Obama's Hispanic vote grab is no small accomplishment. The growing number of Hispanics in the United States has occasionally led to tensions between them and African-Americans, whom they have replaced as the nation's largest minority. Ever since Hillary Clinton won nearly two thirds of the Hispanic vote in the Democratic primaries, the question has lingered: would Hispanics vote for a black president?

The answer was yes, for many reasons. First, Hispanics tend to lean to the left. In New Mexico, 60 percent of Hispanics are registered Democrats. Second, Hispanic voters are young, a boon for Obama. But the biggest reason may be the economy. Republicans won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004 thanks in part to a booming housing market. Now that the housing bubble has burst, and with Obama offering more assistance to lower- and middle-class Americans, Hispanics made the same decision as most Americans: Obama '08.

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Posted By: j.n @ 11/11/2008 9:26:18 PM

Smart people realizes when the working people are doing good and can afford the goods that the companys make,the owners can hire more workers and make more goods for sale and make more profit and can afford to pay more taxes than they were paying before and still have more net at the end than they had before the taxes were raised,

I will gladly pay another $5000 in taxes if at the same time I increase my net by say $10,000 .Some people will cut their own profit rather than see the other person gain something.
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Posted By: Clatech @ 11/06/2008 11:20:07 AM

Richard Pryor had keen insight when he said "White people are so stupid"

I???m so fed up with our corrupt political system after breaking my back for years building my business and fighting from going bankrupt, a bunch of naïve Americans elect an even more naïve career politician, president. I and many of my business partners have decided to pack it in, I???m laying off 50 plus workers starting next month and retiring. No way in hell am I going to pay this numskull???s capital gains tax and run my business into the ground before I can cash out!