Mitt Romney’s bad week with Latinos continued today when Republican Gov. Sue Martinez of New Mexico  attacked his anti-immigrant policies in Newsweek: “‘Self-deport?’ What the heck does that mean?” Martinez snaps. “I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there’s an opportunity for Gov. Romney to have a sincere...
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Republican Latino operatives have been making the rounds of Spanish-language media arguing that President Obama has been terrible on immigration because of his record number of deportations over the last two years. You would naturally expect political hitters exploiting this theme to say that Mitt Romney would follow a different path. The problem for...
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Politico has a close-read on how Latinos can sway the 2012 electoral vote count in the race for the presidency: At a private fundraising reception in Palm Beach recently, Mitt Romney was overheard acknowledging his weakness among Hispanic voters. If it’s not turned around, he said, “It spells doom for us.” President Barack Obama...
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  Mitt Romney told a private meeting of wealthy Republicans Sunday that he intends to support Sen. Marco Rubio’s “Fake DREAM Act”. Romney has had trouble convincing high-level donors that he is likely to unseat President Obama because of his alienation of Latino voters. Romney told the group that “We’re going to be able...
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While national Republicans are trying to mend fences with akienated Latino voters over the party’s hard line on immigration, they will have to contend with local pols trying to win elections by harping on the same old anti-immigrant line. This ad from Wil Cardon, Arizona Senate candidate, is typical of what we are likely...
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Mitt Romney, who until last week was campaigning as the hardest-liner on the immigration issue, saw the polls showing him getting trounced by President Obama among Latinos. Romney shook the Etch-A-Sketch and turned himself into a defender of immigrants calling out the president for failing to get immigration reform through Congress. Here is what...
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Politico says that Republicans are panicing over the realization that they have alienated virtually the entire Latino electorate. After five years of attacking immigrants, some Republicans hope that passing immigration legislation this year could pick up a piece of the Latino vote. Not likely to work. The reform proposals are weak and don’t have...
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The Republican presidential candidates took positions so anti-immigrant that they have alienated four out of five Latinos. But their brutalization of immigrants hasn’t bought them support from Republican voters. Super Tuesday exit polls show that in state after state Republican voters said the immigration issue just was not that important. Here are the percentages...
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Let’s start off our Super Tuesday reporting with a close analysis of Fox News’ poll of Latinos. Latinos are angry at the Republicans for the way they are scapegoating immigrants. Half consider “illegal immigrant” an offensive slur, and that is the nicest term the Republican frontrunners use when they talk about the 12 million...
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Although 30% of Arizonans are Latinos, only 8% of the voters in today’s Republican primary are. The steady erosion of Latino support for the Republican Party has been a major political trend in Arizona since Gov. Jan Brewer launched her assault on immigrants three years ago. Exit polling in The State That Hates showed...
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