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June 24, 2011 07:25 PM UTC

So Rick Perry Will Save You, Will He?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

McClatchy DC:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican who is nearing a decision on a presidential run, drew a tepid response Thursday as he reached out to Hispanics at a national gathering of Latino officials and political leaders.

After his address at the 28th annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in San Antonio, Perry told McClatchy that he is continuing to eye a potential 2012 bid for the White House. “I’m still giving it good cogitation,” he said…

The subdued reception underscored Hispanic discontent with Perry’s inclusion of a controversial “sanctuary city” bill in the Texas legislature’s current special session, which ends next week. The bill – which threatens local governments with the loss of state aid if they prevent law enforcement officers from asking about immigration status – has been approved by the state Senate and faces a key committee vote in the House on Friday.

Hispanics have also criticized Perry for his embrace of another hot-button measure that requires voters to show photo identification before casting ballots. The bill passed the Republican-led legislature in the regular 140-day session that ended on May 30, and Perry signed it into law.

It’s no secret that some recent polling has shown dissatisfaction among the increasingly pivotal Latino vote over the lack of progress on fundamental issues like immigration reform. Democrats enjoy a natural advantage as longstanding champions of immigrant rights, but much like President Barack Obama’s difficulty pleasing his base on many other issues, the last few years of partisan warfare have taken a toll–it’s always been the case that critics understate the opposition to these goals, while focusing their anger on the nominal proponent’s failure to achieve them. To a very significant extent, Republicans are counting on that next year.

But in the case of Texas firebrand Gov. Rick Perry, this whole equation gets a lot simpler. And whether he runs for President or not, he did just provide a memorable signature line: “I’m still giving it good cogitation.”

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  3. Perry jokes in front of a Hispanic audience about how the name of his choice for the Texas alcohol commission, Jose Cuevas, sounds like Jose Cuervo.

    Predictable result: crickets.

  5. Latinos will break participation records in next year’s presidential election, according to a study released Thursday by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund.

    The report, presented during NALEO’s annual conference, held this year in San Antonio, is a projection crafted using participation data from the last four presidential elections.

    About 9.7 million Hispanics cast ballots in the November 2008 election that brought Barack Obama to the White House, compared with 7.6 million who did so in 2004, the study notes.

    That participation is increasing and according to the report’s projections this will be reflected in the 2012 election, when the Latino vote is anticipated to increase by 26 percent to 12.2 million voters, or 8.7 percent of the country’s total.

    ..The forecasts are that California, Florida and Illinois will be the states that will register the greatest increases in Hispanic turnout compared to 2008, above 30 percent, while in California, New Mexico and Texas at least one in every five voters will be Latino.

    Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/lati…

      1. Anecdotal reasoning is often comforting in the face of contrary evidence that suggests what you don’t want to hear.

        Despite these big top-of-the-ticket wins for Republican Hispanic candidates, Democratic candidates won the Latino vote, usually by wide margins. For example, according to the national House exit poll, 60% of Latino voters supported Democratic candidates in House races while 38% supported Republican candidates.

        This majority support for Democratic candidates continues a pattern among Latino voters. In 2006, according to the national exit poll, 69% of Latinos voted for Democratic candidates in their congressional district races, while 30% supported Republicans. In the 2008 presidential election, Latinos supported Democrat Barack Obama by a margin of more than two-to-one over Republican John McCain — 67% vs. 31% according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of the national exit poll.

        http://pewresearch.org/pubs/17…

  6. It’s a lot of fun to keep asking GOP Polsters who they support.  They have  no answer.  How could they with the list of Bozos on their bus.

    So, Arapgop:  Who do you support?  (ha ha)

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