The Latino Vote........

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by paulo537

It's hardly laughable.

Mexican-Americans are 2/3 of the U.S. voting Lationos. A recent poll of these voters showed 13% are more likely to vote for a ticket with Rubio on it. 11% said they'd be less likely to vote for a ticket with Rubio included.

Mainland Puerto Ricans are the 2nd largest group of these voters. Both PRs and Cubans descended from Spaniards and the Taino Indians. Society in PR was maternalistic; among the Cuban Tainos, paternalistic. They hardly got along well. Hell, if you ask 10 PRs what they think, one or two will tell you they think the Cuban Tainos used to eat the PRs.

Puerto Ricans will not vote Republican because a Cuban-American is on the ticket.

Oh, yes, it's also an absolute fallacy that Rubio got elected in whole, or part, in Florida because he carried the Latino vote.

Rubio won his Senate election with 49% of the total vote in a 3-way race and got 45% of the Latino vote.

Rick Scott won the Florida Governor's race with 51% of the total vote vs one other candidate while getting 50% of the Latino vote.

That's probably the best measure of how effective having Rubio on the ticket would be.

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