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Ruki says

Uh, no.

Unlike many nations, we don't hold nation-wide elections.

Uh, yes. We all know that. But if you think that the GOP doesn't care about losing 5-10% of the vote in Congressional and Senate races, you're mistaken.

REGIONALLY, the minorities will sway elections. The GOP has punished them long enough.

By the way, out of curiosity ...how many minorities have an (R) next to their name in the House or Senate?

How many do you see even at their lousy conventions? Besides the wait staff, I mean.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/09/republican-party-still-struggles-bring-minority-votes

"At their convention last week in Denver, Democrats also touted the diversity of their national and Virginia delegation. Minorities were 44 percent of total delegates, while 38 of Virginia's 101 delegates fit that description.

In contrast, determining the level of GOP diversity at the convention is difficult; national organizers and state officials declined to provide demographic data about delegates."
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"You see very few," said Kamelsh Dave, a first-time delegate from Chester who came to this country from India in 1980, about the lack of minorities at the convention."

CL says

I doubt their "Papers, please" policies or other anti-immigrant positions will do anything but galvanize the minority voter.

if anything many immigrants are pro-enforcement on the boards and on immigration policies ... many are also pro-english as required language...

Many immigrants who have a come from left socialist to flat out communist countries dont like the policies and mindset thing of the Democrats.

So this idea that immigrants are somehow left wing - Democrat voters are just laughable... They left their native land to get away from people like Democrats and their corrupt socialist politics.

Go talk to an immigrant! They will tell you the same thing...

CL says

http://mypolitikal.com/2011/01/23/the-future-of-the-asian-american-vote/

Read the exit polls, most importantly:

a blog is your source of facts... really!

CL says

Uh, yes. We all know that. But if you think that the GOP doesn't care about losing 5-10% of the vote in Congressional and Senate races, you're mistaken.

REGIONALLY, the minorities will sway elections. The GOP has punished them long enough.

By the way, out of curiosity ...how many minorities have an (R) next to their name in the House or Senate?

where was this nonsense before the 2008 election... do i really trust what some 19 yo occupy this stats ! wait till you kick in past 35... you will have an (R) after it...

thomas.wong1986 says

a blog is your source of facts... really!

Did you read the links? http://www.aaldef.org/docs/AALDEF-ExitPoll-2008.pdf (Asian American Legal Defense Fund, for example?)

This information is ubiquitous. You haven't provided anything to support your theory except hearsay!

thomas.wong1986 says

where was this nonsense before the 2008 election... do i really trust what some 19 yo occupy this stats ! wait till you kick in past 35... you will have an (R) after it...

This information has been around since forever. I don't know why you question it. The Republicans don't do well with minorities; Democrats do.

It has been fairly typical that any Democrat doesn't even win the majority of the white vote. Without minority votes in large numbers, the Dems do not win.

Do you believe that?

How many Asian, Black, Jewish, Female or Latino Republicans are in the House or Senate? How many Democrats?

Please, provide proof of where I am wrong or where you are right.

Ruki says

How many are there with Ds next to their name relative to the make-up of the Democratic voters?

There are tons. Show me your work if you want to disprove it. Include the number of minority delegates to each party's convention while you're at it.Ruki says

Btw, after three generations, most hispanics refuse to even be considered in that minority any more, too.

Source?

Ruki says

rewrew7 says

So your American heritage is what Ruki? You have no history in your family of ever being a minority based on religion, nationality, or race? Your family never had to fight for any right, privilege, or to be seen as an equal in this country? Your family doesn't have an immigrant history?

Ruki says
My family has no traces of being life's losers, if that is what you are asking.

No I was asking if you have any history of being a minority in your family. You are choosing to equate being a minority with begin "life's losers". This has forced you into a place where you are unwilling to admit your family, at some point in its history, was in a minority ... because almost certainly that is true.

Careless talk often puts people in hard places.

rewrew7 says

No I was asking if you have any history of being a minority in your family

Remembering, of course, that Irish, Italian, and other Europeans were widely scorned at one point when they arrived in immigrant waves.

Here is the sordid tale of the Arab-American vote and the GOP. They are natural constituents, but, "Bush quickly lost the Arab vote, and trust, following Sept. 11, 2001, when he ordered the rounding up of thousands of Arabs without charges and unleashed his “war on terror,” which many Arabs and Muslims saw as a war on Arabs and Muslims.

http://middleeast.about.com/od/usmideastpolicy/a/me080922.htm

It's kind of hard to prove why 'minorities' aren't voting for republicans.

I wonder, why are they voting for democrats?

I assumed people go to the polls to vote FOR someone, so out of those that bother to go vote, why are they voting FOR democrats?

Vicente says

Founding fathers have to present ID cards at voting time?

“Eagles are dandified vultures” - Teddy Roosevelt

Ben Franklin presented this ID card.

errc says

I assumed people go to the polls to vote FOR someone, so out of those that bother to go vote, why are they voting FOR democrats?

Naaah. They vote against candidates. Out of fear of legalized pot, or gay marriage, or "terrorists". They vote against the Democrat if the Republican ads feature black folks getting your jobs.

How many conservatives will be voting FOR Romney? I'd wager a small fraction, and they'd be in Utah.

But this is good. I can surmise you agree that there is a disparity and that it is trending away from the GOP's electoral favorability?

CL says

How many Asian, Black, Jewish, Female or Latino Republicans are in the House or Senate? How many Democrats?

Please, provide proof of where I am wrong or where you are right.

For leadership its all about quality.. not quantity.

What compelling story of success does the democrats have to give to the voters... now compare that to Congressmen like Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindalor, Joseph Cao.

Serious what can you say about the unethical and corrupt minority demo congressmen today. You call this success! you should be embarrassed for their behavior!

Maxine Waters... Socialize US industries ?
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OrA9zj94NuU

Meeks, who was damning regulators because they uncovered abuses and accounting scandals of Fannie Mae.. the pet project of the dems.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/IyqYY72PeRM

Charlie Rangel... Corruption to the max! Tax paid benefits and unreported income.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/rdtFWCrCh0s

I don't see why they don't just have people bring the printed ballot that was sent in advance to their homes with them on election day. No extra cost, no ID (which is really a poll tax in disguise), and much less corruption.

thomas.wong1986 says

What compelling story of success does the democrats have to give to the voters... now compare that to Congressmen like Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindalor, Joseph Cao.

First of all, each of those is an anomaly. The two Louisianans wouldn't have gotten their position had it not been for Katrina. And Cao was trounced in his bid after that, despite being a Liberal.

And, importantly, the GOP doesn't have a history of electing minorities, because they don't run them and if they did, the voters wouldn't vote for them. It's because the GOP voting base prefers white candidates.

Secondly, I find it odd (and racist) that you see the commonality in the (allegedly corrupt) Democratic representatives as being their race, rather than their tenure in Congress.

Bottom line, the GOP doesn't run and doesn't vote for people of color. That is the secret to their electoral success.

And that's why they're not opposed to racially divisive tactics to secure their votes.