In the days immediately after Barack Obama decreed an amnesty for 800,000 illegal aliens, the Democrat cheerleaders in the media have been giddily claiming that it has ignited Hispanic enthusiasm to vote for Obama. According to Obama’s steno pool, this decree solved a problem that has been plaguing Obama’s reelection campaign plans for months.
A Latino Decisions and America’s Voice survey found “registered voters” are “very enthusiastic” about Barack Obama’s announcement granting amnesty to these 800,000 people. Aside from the fact that there is a difference between enthusiasm for a policy and enthusiasm to vote for Obama, the “new surge of enthusiasm” only brings Hispanics’ desire to vote roughly in line with that found among blacks and young voters.
Enthusiasm among none of these groups stands above 48%. Numbers like this will not get Obama re-elected.
Before Obama’s announcement, 53% of Hispanics reported being less enthused about voting next November than they were in 2009. Thirty percent were more enthused to vote. The hidden gem in these numbers shows that an alarming 22% were excited to vote before the BIG announcement. Twenty two percent!
An August 2008 CNN Poll found 62% of Hispanics were looking forward to voting, which they did at a rate of 66% for Obama. By 2010, Hispanic voting patterns had changed as they returned away from Democrats. In 2010, Hispanics voted 63% Democrat, down from 69% in 2006.
Bad numbers speak for themselves.
The most recent survey of Hispanic voter enthusiasm before last weekend was completed in February by YouGov. It found that just 43% of Hispanic Democrats were looking forward to voting.
This means Obama’s BIG announcement may have moved Hispanic enthusiasm up 5 points. This “put him over the top”? That’s doubtful.
While all of this is playing out, it is worth noting that in 2008, CNN found that 92% of blacks were excited to vote, and they voted 95% for Obama. A February 2012 YouGov poll reported that black voter enthusiasm had fallen to 60%, which was what white voter enthusiasm was just before the 2008 election.
Remember these numbers; they make sense of Obama’s moves and prove that predictions of his victory are wishful thinking at best.
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The shine has worn off the polished turd.
Yes the students will get amnesty at the price of Identifying the names of their parents who came here Illegally. So their Parents can be deported for entering the US illegally ICE would love to have that Information. It would make it easy to Identify them all.
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My hairdresser is from South America & trying to stay a Liberal. I put in my attacks against the Dems every time I go there. Her responses are weak, to say the least. I can never believe any Hispanic that stood in line to obtain their citizenship and would think the lawbreakers, illegals, should be given first place in our nation. We teach our children to take their exams (without looking on someone else’s paper), not to bully those who cannot defend themselves properly, to be polite to others, and on & on it goes. Meanwhile our illegal president takes every cent he can steal from us and foreigners, vacations all over the world while we aren’t able to take even one vacation without doing it on credit, knocks our country to outsiders, and the list goes on….. There is a reckoning day coming in November & don’t forget- I told you he was the most corrupt president ever to occupy the oval office. History will prove me right!!!!
All of this was so obvious with Obama. Who does he think he’s fooling. The Hispanics are a very proud people and they also know when they’re being used. He will not get their vote. I’d say it’s probably going to backfire on him like the War on Women.
This is a move intended to manipulate the Hispanic vote,not unlike the speaking out for gay marriage,intending to manipulate the gay vote. Sorry,Obama…the Hispanics and Gays are smarter than you give them credit for. They know what you are all about!
Obama could CARE LESS if they’re excited or not. This amnesty thing is just his new distraction/ ‘flavor of the week’. ANYTHING to keep focus off his destroyed economy, zero jobs, foreign relation ‘turrets syndrome’, to name a few.