Jul 28, 2008 21:31
“McCain’s problem is the problem of his party demonizing Hispanic people,” Cortes said. “His party demonized us. You can’t switch off the immigration rhetoric and think it will work. In the context of the immigration issue, Hispanics define the enemy as the Republican Party and you don’t erase that overnight"
“You begin with the anti-immigrant legislation that came out of the House and jump started a level of activism in the Latino community that we had not seen ever,” said Adam Segal, director of the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins University
i had a hunch that the more the republicans appealed to white people in louisiana, the more they would alienate most of the american public and be doomed by the next election. oh i guess i was right, although they blame it on high gas among other things. i still can't answer how he got re-elected can you?