Latinos Have Figured Out Two-Face McCain

[babylonsister]

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Latinos Have Figured Out Two-Face McCain
By: David Neiwert Sunday June 22, 2008 4:02 pm


As bad as it has been looking for John McCain's prospects attracting Latino votes, fear not: He can always do even worse. For instance, the latest polling:

A new national survey of Latino voters shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a nearly 3-to-1 advantage over his rival, Republican John McCain.

The survey found that 60 percent of Latinos planned to vote for Obama, compared to 23 percent for McCain, while 16 percent were undecided. Latino Decisions, a collaboration between Pacific Market Research and University of Washington political scientists Matt Barreto and Gary Segura, conducted the poll by telephone June 1–12.

This was even before his two-faced appearance at a closed-door town-hall session in Chicago. And as a sign they intend to make immigration -- and McCain's phony strategy of trying to play both sides of the aisle -- a campaign issue, the Obama campaign jumped all over it:

As Dana Goldstein at Tapped observes:

If McCain has any enduring principles on immigration at this juncture, they're impossible to discern.

Actually, they're not entirely indiscernible. John McCain's one enduring principle, across a whole range of issues, is Whatever Benefits John McCain. If that's his political compass, well, no wonder he talks out both sides of his head.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Could it be that his immigration "stance" is why he seems to be doing so

poorly in his home state? It's been difficult for me to understand why a man they've repeatedly sent back to Washington is running even or slightly ahead of Obama. I do know that he's got some fierce and vocal anti-immigration nuts in his backyard.

[Cha]

2. Good luck with

trying your fancy footwork on immigration, mccain. Hispanics are way too smart for you as are most Americans.

[Super Soaker Sniper]

3. Republicans have no illusions

about getting a majority ofthe Latino vote anymore than they have any illusions about winning a majority of the Black vote. They wish only to whittle away at the Democratic Nominee's lead in that particular demographic. If they win a point or two more in this election than they did in the last one they consider it a win.

[Olney Blue]

4. He could have been greatly loved by this group, but he sold out.