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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
I think you are making a completely different point. The statement is that latino's don't care for Rubio. If he got 45% of the Latino vote in a three man race including the Gov of the state who was a Republician running as a moderate independent and a Democrat how does that show they dont care for him? Your Mexican voter percentages dont say much other than most people dont know him or much about him considering that 76% of those people in that polled chose another option. As a matter of fact being that the vast majority of Mexican voters are located in CA and Texas they wont play much of a role considering that it is extremely likely Texas is going to vote GOP and CA is going to Obama.
The idea that these percentages really show or prove that Latinos dont care for Rubio is a weak case. Any GOP candidate is going to have trouble with the immigration stance that they are taking. And unlike Obama who carried 90% of the black vote, Rubio is not a democrat unlike Obama and the vast majority of black voters. Yea Rubio isnt going to push the ticket to huge margins of hispanic voters like Obama did with blacks but he will have a lot of positive influence in FL where 57% of Latinos voted Democratic in 2012. To think that the first hispanic candidate wont be supported by Hispanics in at the very least luke warm fashion
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Do I understand you correctly?
Even though:
Rick Scott (obviously non-Latin) got only 1% less of the Latino vote than he did overall.
Rubio got 4% less of the Latino vote than he did of the overall,
You mean that there is nothinlittle to infer regarding Rubio's ability to significantly affect the Latin vote?
I understand your points, you may be right.
But to me, when a Latino candidate's Latin vote percentage don't even match what he got overall, I think that's meaningful.