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| 01 Jan 2013 11:10 PM |
This might be the last presidential election during which Texas is not considered a swing state. We know that the Latino vote matters in this year’s election. And the sleeping giant of the Texas Latino vote is poised to awaken and alter the fate of every future election.
Latinos are a powerful and still relatively unrealized political force in this country. In Texas, we know this well: Hispanic Texans make up 30 percent of the state’s eligible voter population, and that number is increasing. We also know that Latinos significantly favor Democratic candidates – 67 percent of Latino voters supported President Barack Obama in 2008, and 70 percent are poised to support him this Election Day. |
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mummymark
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| 01 Jan 2013 11:13 PM |
| Marco Rubio/Paul Ryan 2016! |
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Corridan
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| 01 Jan 2013 11:22 PM |
Another reason to deport them Latinos and Blacks also make up a large percent of the prison populations and coincidentally are also Democrat bases What does this say? |
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| 01 Jan 2013 11:35 PM |
Republicans consume the most government aid in the country.
Food stamps, unemployment, medicare, etc.
They also take up the largest cost of obesity funds in the country |
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| 01 Jan 2013 11:39 PM |
Welfare Statistics:
Total number of Americans on welfare: 4,300,000 Citizens
Total number of Americans on food stamps: 46,700,000 Citizens
Total number of Americans on unemployment insurance: 5,600,000 Citizens
Percent of the US population on welfare: 4.1 %
Total government spending on welfare annually (not including food stamps or unemployment): $131.9 billion --- This all increased under obama ironic. |
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Corridan
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| 01 Jan 2013 11:40 PM |
"Republicans consume the most government aid in the country.
Food stamps, unemployment, medicare, etc." Mostly unregistered black-latino voters living in Republican areas oh and inbred trailer people in Kentucky
"They also take up the largest cost of obesity funds in the country" What can I say? they are a bunch of fat cats |
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| 01 Jan 2013 11:44 PM |
| I agree that inbred states like Kentucky make this country look bad |
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| 02 Jan 2013 03:58 AM |
All you would have to do is put up a pro republican minority figurehead to get the vote.
Minorities are just like that. |
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| 02 Jan 2013 11:19 AM |
States have always changed.
Virginia has gone from solid red to swing state. Kentucky and Tennessee have gone from swing state to solid red. Georgia has gone from swing state to solid red too, same with Louisiana and South Dakota. Even Texas almost went Democrat under Clinton.
New Mexico went from solid blue to solid red and back to solid blue again. Pennsylvania went from solid blue to swing state. Michigan went from solid blue to swing state. Even Montana went blue when Clinton was elected. Arkansas, Arizona and Missouri also went blue for Clinton.
At the 1996 election, the states where the margin of victory was <5% were:
Kentucky, a state that is unthinkable to go blue today, despite their democrat governor. Nevada, which is still a swing state Georgia, which is solid red today and is very unlikely to go blue Colorado, which is today a swing state Virginia, which is today a swing state Arizona, which went blue, but is very unlikely to go blue now Tennessee, which also went blue but today is not even close to a swing state Montana, which is solid red today South Dakota, which is solid red today North Carolina, hitch despite being a swing state this election, it is as much of a swing state as Pennsylvania. Texas, which is obviously not a swing state.
Even in 2008, Indiana and Nebraska gave the Democrats some votes.
The point is, times change, and so do states. If the Republicans lose Texas, they will get it replaced with other states. |
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