{"id":2849,"date":"2010-08-02T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:09:24","slug":"the-looming-latino-challenge-for-the-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/02\/the-looming-latino-challenge-for-the-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Latino Challenge for the Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jaUSM3p8g6oNYSfkwAmkfx4s_4ZAD9H788N80\">an article<\/a> about a recent AP-Univision poll that focuses on dwindling Hispanic support for President Obama is this splash of cold water for the GOP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;line-height: 31px;font-size: 22px\">With the first midterm congressional elections of Obama&#8217;s presidency in three months, the poll shows a whopping 50 percent of Hispanics citizens call themselves Democrats, while just 15 percent say they are Republicans.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By 2050, Latinos are supposed to represent 30% of the US electorate. \u00a0Republicans want to tread lightly on the immigration question. \u00a0We&#8217;ve got long memories! \u00a0Just look at the GOP in California. \u00a0They&#8217;re just getting up off the mat after their campaign in support of proposition 187 in the mid 1990&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-2849-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lF2M38otLa8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/lF2M38otLa8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&#8220;Latino&#8221; as an ethnic identity is not a monolith. \u00a0It&#8217;s possible that many of those who identify as &#8220;Latino&#8221; will not have children who do so. \u00a0 But if I were a Democratic strategist, I might push harder for immigration reform. \u00a0Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p>Via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F~r%2Ftime%2Fthepage%2F~3%2FEWaEEj3bBbU%2F\">Mark Halperin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in an article about a recent AP-Univision poll that focuses on dwindling Hispanic support for President Obama is this splash of cold water for the GOP: With the first midterm congressional elections of Obama&#8217;s presidency in three months, the poll shows a whopping 50 percent of Hispanics citizens call themselves Democrats, while just 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}