Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Deflating the Latino-Vote Balloon   [Mark Krikorian]

I spoke this morning at the National War College, and one of the other panelists repeated with great sincerity the argument that Hispanics elected Obama and Republicans need to back amnesty to stay viable. This is a great example of the danger of believing your own press releases. In fact, the smaller share of the Hispanic that McCain got this time, compared with Bush in 2004, isn't attributable to immigration, a point that sometime-NROnik Jim Gimpel explores in a new piece I published today, "Latino Voting in the 2008 Election: Part of a Broader Electoral Movement." Steve Malanga has a piece in the new City Journal (the text isn't online, I'm afraid) along the same lines. And The American Cause is releasing on Thursday a more fine-grained study that looks at each House seat lost by the GOP, and concludes that "every defeated GOP Congressional candidate supported amnesty or open border policies for illegal aliens - or had Democratic contenders who took tough stands on illegal immigration."

01/27 05:51 PMShare