Latinos Flock to Obama

I don’t understand why everyone is calling OBAMA an African American. People don’t call me an IRISH American, or French American. Why can’t we just have an AMERICAN who’s running for president that happens to be black, or white, or brown. Why do we rally around old nationalities when our commonality is our current AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. Quit polarizing us with race. I think what is amazing is that whites are evenly divided but blacks, and hispanics are not. They vote by color and not platform or policy.

im a 23 year old, Latina and it was my first time voting and im very proud to say that i voted for obama!!!! we need change and we need it fast!!

From Michigan, It has happened again like with Niel Armstrong one small step for man. Well today one big step for African American means for me one huge step for minorities. My sons can now see this today and hopefully one day a Mexican American can also break these barriers before their eyes. I hope he will remember what my race has done to shape OUR Country. Even though I am losing my house and not employeed. Obama tonight has made me feel better than I have in a long time. God bless us all and its a great time to be an American!!!

I am a young latina and I am proud to say that I voted for Obama. I voted for Obama, because of his politcal stand on issues such as, health care and the war on Iraq. McCain spent too much time trying to bash Obama, instead of worrying about informing people on his political platform.

Btw, Jake, and with all due respect, I don’t think Sen McCain needed much help in being painted as an anti-immigrant. First let me make it clear that I think John McCain is a very humane man. He does not seem to have let his high standing in society cloud his vision for others.
HOWEVER, on the immigration issue, he chose to disown a moral high ground that he had [rightfully] earned by standing up for immigrants when he publicly made it clear that he had changed his mind. Why should latinos believe he will stand up for them as a president when he hasn’t stood up for them as a candidate. A candidacy is all about declaring what you are for and what you are against, right? Sen McCain publicly declared what he was for and what he was against in regards to immigration. Obama did well to point it out (after all it was a risk to himself to openly criticize McCain’s popular stand about the issue… popular with certain people, that is)

This election should not be about race. It should never be about race. It should be about who is the better candidate, who is most clear on the issues, and who is the right choice for all in America. Not one race or another. I’m not writing this to state who is the better candidate – that’s up to each individual, but I despise that people have turned this into an issue of race. Look deeper!

i voted in my first presidential election! and someone posed the question why did so many minorities register to vote this time? flip flop history and answer the question yourself! duh….

TO ALL AMERICANS:
AMERICA CAN NOW LIVE UP TO IT’S CREED “ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”.

People voted for Obama, nobody “flocked” to him.
While McCain has crossed the aisle in the past on issues such as immigration (really, exploitation) reform, and campaign finance reform, he ultimately capitulated to the base of his own party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. I voted for Obama because I don’t want this country governed by the retrograde base of the Republican Party.
Furthermore, the country is becoming more diverse and it can’t really move forward if blacks feel excluded. That exclusion then breeds an unfounded resentment of newcomers and other minorities, which leads to tension, and accusations of racism as political leverage.
It’s a vicious cycle that needed to be broken. No more politics of racial grievance. It’s finally over.

McCain could be reasonable over immigration all he wants, but Republicans in general have lost the Hispanic vote for a couple of generations. Young Cubans are trending away from Republicans and, soon, Castro will die and change that game, too.
We haven’t forgot Pete Wilson and all the crap in California. We aren’t ignoring the Republicans rallying cry against immigrants legal & illegal.

Steve Sailer:
“Thumbing through the demographics casually, nothing looks terribly surprising, just a broad shift to the left versus 2004, just as 2004 saw a widespread shift to the right versus 2000. Of course, some of the black vote breakdowns by state are pretty funny, with North Korean-like 98-2 ratios.”
(for Republicans) The White vote shifted leftward from 58% in 2004 to 55% now.
The Latino vote shifted Leftward from 40% to 31%.
The Black vote, with their diminishing returns, shifted leftward from, 6 or 7?, to 4%.
Further:
…the reason the GOP even got 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004 was because Bush and Rove bought the Hispanic vote via the Great Hispanic Housing Bubble. In part due to Bush’s jihad against down payments on home loans, mortgage dollars borrowed for home purchases by Hispanics increased an insane 691 percent from 1999 to 2006. In 1999, less than 7 percent of first time buyers in California, the black hole of the Bubble, put no money down. By 2004, it was 33 percent, by 2006 a ludicrous 41 percent.
Democrats appealed to Hispanics by being the Tax and Spend party. Bush and Rove resolved that Republicans would win Hispanics over by being the Borrow and Spend party.
And debauching credit standards for Hispanics debauched them for everybody. So there was a huge amount of unneeded construction and remodeling, carried out in large part by Hispanics workers, making Hispanics unusually pleased with the Republican incumbent in 2004.

Well people already spoke and me as Mexican born and naturilized American could hardly waited to go and vote. First of all my respects for Mr. McCain he is a fine gentlement he did not loose the elections it was the Republican Party, this party try every elections cycles to buy voters with false issues as abortions, they were in charge in every chamber of government for so many years and guess what abortions never stopped, fear was injected among religious groups in order for them to get the votes, but did not work this time. The Irak war was a very important issue, we marched to protes the war, we beg to stopped a war that was benefitial only for a companies that build military equipment or for oil interest, the Republican Party did not got the message in the last Congressional Elections and still they persisted in continuing a war that was draining our finacial resources and dividing us as a nation.
Now as a Hispanic I saw and I witnessed the great descrimination against the inmigrants, not just the illegal, but also the legal. Well Republicans had their chances to build good ties with our ethnical group and they failed misearably, Republicans isolated themselves and you see the results now the Republican Party is running the chance to still diminised more, either they regroup and do rational planning or continue doing what they been doing. Failure.
Dany

My husband was half Chinese and half Mexican. Barack Obama reminds me so much of my highly successful husband. Race was not what Obama ran on – he ran as a citizen of US. This is why his tolerance for all Americans drew many different racial group of this great multicultural nation!! I congratulate the hispanic population for seeing the truth and knowing there is an American dream.
I am very proud to have been witness to this great time in American history.

Please dont say that America is going to Hell, Fail, Collapse, or that Today we start falling like the past great civilizations.”We’re almost there now bratha”. A person has got to be WEAK, IGNORANT, A HYPOCRITICAL ASS to blame this on a REPUB, or DEM. alone. We got alot more problems than
that, Im afraid. Are we seriously going to get together? NOWHERE in this world is their more races, cultures, colors, diversity than here in the U.S. That is very difficult to do. Everybody wants their RIGHTS. And alot of people get pissed and kill because they didnt get JUSTICE. You cant make everybody happy, just the majority. EVERYBODY, Dems and Repubs need to back Obama. He’s our leader now. I doubt he’s gonna let us get our ass kicked by some “Infidel”. (reversed it) Let him go with it and/or Let him fail. We tried it the other way for 8 frickin years bra, F___ that! We need to get back up and on top again. And thats all there is to it…