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To: Brumar89 who wrote (520055)	11/7/2012 10:58:59 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793559

e mail from a person in my wife's office. Here are a bunch of articles about those two things, not necessarily the ones Sean showed me, I’d have to ask him to track them down. Also, dislike a lot of republican social issues viewpoints, like the whole rape/abortion thing and anti-contraceptive and anti-gay. Obama is not a great choice, but I think a bit better than this, Romney kind of felt like a shady businessman after reading a few things like this…I do generally like the republican mentality of self-made people who work hard for their money and their stance on guns, but have a big problem with sneaky business dealings. the linked articles were about Romney tax breaks and bain dealings

To: Brumar89 who wrote (520055)	11/8/2012 1:32:45 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793559

Why did the Republicans lose?????? Rush was all over Heather McDonald's WSJ piece yesterday "Why Hispanics Don't Vote for Republicans", Personally, I think he's on to something.... Why did the Republicans lose? 3,000,000 registered Republicans didn't show up to vote!!!! If these people had voted, Romney would have won. The demographics of this country have changed!!!! Look at the stats.....Unemployment is UP! Food Stamps are UP! Jobs are hard to find..... Could this be the reason that really good people on the Republican side lost all over the country? It is NOT amnesty the Hispanics want....they want work, and "Free Stuff", along with taxing the "rich" more.... If this is the real reason, the Hispanics as a group, have bought into the Democrat slanders and untruths against the Republicans, Hook, Line, and Sinker. Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans By Heather Mac Donald November 7, 2012 12:20 P.M. The call for Republicans to discard their opposition to immigration amnesty will grow deafening in the wake of President Obama’s victory. Hispanics supported Obama by a margin of nearly 75 percent to 25 percent, and may have provided important margins in some swing states. If only Republicans relented on their Neanderthal views regarding the immigration rule of law, the message will run, they would release the inner Republican waiting to emerge in the Hispanic population. If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out of a belief that only immigration policy stands between them and a Republican Hispanic majority. It is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic party, but the core Democratic principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation. Hispanics will prove to be even more decisive in the victory of Governor Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30, which raised upper-income taxes and the sales tax, than in the Obama election. And California is the wave of the future. A March 2011 poll by Moore Information found that Republican economic policies were a stronger turn-off for Hispanic voters in California than Republican positions on illegal immigration. Twenty-nine percent of Hispanic voters were suspicious of the Republican party on class-warfare grounds — “it favors only the rich”; “Republicans are selfish and out for themselves”; “Republicans don’t represent the average person”– compared with 7 percent who objected to Republican immigration stances. I spoke last year with John Echeveste, founder of the oldest Latino marketing firm in southern California, about Hispanic politics. “What Republicans mean by ‘family values’ and what Hispanics mean are two completely different things,” he said. “We are a very compassionate people, we care about other people and understand that government has a role to play in helping people.” And a strong reason for that support for big government is that so many Hispanics use government programs. U.S.-born Hispanic households in California use welfare programs at twice the rate of native-born non-Hispanic households. And that is because nearly one-quarter of all Hispanics are poor in California, compared to a little over one-tenth of non-Hispanics. Nearly seven in ten poor children in the state are Hispanic, and one in three Hispanic children is poor, compared to less than one in six non-Hispanic children. One can see that disparity in classrooms across the state, which are chock full of social workers and teachers’ aides trying to boost Hispanic educational performance. The idea of the “social issues” Hispanic voter is also a mirage. A majority of Hispanics now support gay marriage, a Pew Research Center poll from last month found. The Hispanic out-of-wedlock birth rate is 53 percent, about twice that of whites. The demographic changes set into motion by official and de facto immigration policy favoring low-skilled over high-skilled immigrants mean that a Republican party that purports to stand for small government and free markets faces an uncertain future.