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From: LindyBill11/12/2008 12:21:12 AM
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Palin and Immigration
WEEKLY STANDARD
By John McCormack

Jen Rubin writes:

Some are hearing, in Sarah Palin's recognition of the failure of Republicans to attract Hispanics, an embrace of John McCain's immigration plans. (They feel compelled, of course, to label this "amnesty"). It is interesting that immigration reform opponents immediately make the connection--although Palin did not herself. I guess a coordinated, highly emotional campaign by the Right to stop any plan for the legalization of illegal immigrants actually did turn off Hispanics. Who'd have thunk it?

Palin has said that she favors a "path to citizenship" for illegal immigrants, but Rubin is right that Palin was merely making a factual statement in her interview with Lauer: Hispanics voted overwhelmingly for Obama, and this is a big demographic problem facing Republicans:

For the first time ever, whites constituted less than 75 percent of the electorate, a considerable problem for the Republican Party given its historical problems attracting minorities. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) drew just 55 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, but Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) drew 67 percent of it four years later -- a remarkable showing considering that many of those voters preferred Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) in the Democratic contest and supposedly were resistant to voting for a black candidate.
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