Gebe Martinez, Politico.com, Oct. 28, 2008
In an election season filled with hyperbole and lies, the truest moments came just in time for next week’s election.
The candor came from Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and two GOP House members from Minnesota and North Carolina, who rallied for votes by suggesting that only some parts of the United States—presumably those that support them—are the “real America.”
Their spontaneity, which they later apologized for in the face of sliding support, revealed a state of denial in the changing American electorate. The truth is, the real America—the whole America—will be seen on Election Day, when the millions of votes by “new Americans” are counted.
New Americans, the fastest-growing voting bloc, are naturalized immigrants, mostly Hispanic, and the U.S.-born children of immigrants since 1965, according to a recent report by the Immigration Policy Center.
If political pollsters, campaign strategists, and civil rights and immigrants’ advocates are correct, these newer citizens will shatter voting records next week.
Their increasing numbers were widely anticipated, but their high rate of growth “has been utterly unprecedented,” observed Rob Paral, who studied the shifting electorate for the immigration center.
While the national voter registration rate rose 11.3 percent from 1996 to 2004, the new American sign-up rate jumped almost 60 percent, according to Paral. And they vote, too. In 2006, more than 7.3 million new Americans—two-thirds of those registered—cast ballots.
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But new Americans will march to the polls in unprecedented numbers for two more reasons: They feel the intense heat generated by conservatives in the immigration debate, and they are Americans who have the right to vote.
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Though Republicans’ sharp-tongued immigration stance has turned off these voters, Democrats should not take them for granted, Kelley warned. The Electoral College battle is often won by slim margins in many states, and these new Americans could be this year’s “new and weighty” voting bloc, she said.
As new voters, they do not have long-standing party loyalties and are the “quintessential swing electorate,” added Efrain Escobedo, of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Educational Fund.
And they will be voting everywhere.
The swelling numbers of new voters, as well as Latinos and Asian-Americans, are no longer concentrated in traditional immigrant states such as Florida, New York and those along the U.S.-Mexico border. Their populations have expanded to states like North Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Washington.
They are expected to be a force in presidential battleground states as well as in congressional contests in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
In Indiana, for example, few could have imagined until a few weeks ago that a Spanish-language radio station would be handing out pan de dulce at a get-out-the-vote rally for Hispanics. Yes, in crimson-red Indiana.
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The seismic shift in the electorate will only continue, said Paral, who estimated that half of California’s teenagers who will be eligible to vote in 2012 have an immigrant parent.
The challenge for future candidates is to figure out how to incorporate this emerging voting bloc into the political mainstream, said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, an immigrant advocacy group.
“If the parties don’t adapt to that, they are going to be on the wrong side of history,” Sharry said.
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(Posted on October 31, 2008)
Comments
The answer is no, they come here solely for economic reasons only and they come in such large numbers, they don’t have to assimilate. They don’t see themselves as American and they will vote only according to their own racial interests.
There is a lesson to be learned from these people! if it wasn’t for so many stupid whites on the Obama wagon (especialy stupid, young, white girls) the outcome wouldn’t be in such doubt (IF there is doubt)
The “real” America is an invaded nation, one being colonized by criminals who break into our country then go on to commit many other crimes. Our enviroment is suffering as well as our social services. Our schools are overflowing with non-English speaking students that our government, in its infinite wisdom, thinks we should educate. Those who produce one baby after another are reward with citizenshp for their offspring, who in turn will be able to bring in the rest of his/her enormous family. Our prisons are full, and our neighborhoods deteriorating. Our leaders also approve of another language by putting all document in Spanish and the invaders can get anything they desire without ever learning English because we provide translators. They can march, waving the flags of foreign countries and demand the rights of legal citizens. All with the blessings of our elected officials. If they had only enforced our laws and had the backbone to say, “no mas!” we would not have this tragedy. If they had to give our country away, couldn’t it have been to a worthy opponent rather than a third world vile and violent nation?
It is truly time for White America to stand up for White America!
Ever since Ted Kennedy opened up our gates to the Third World, we’ve been sinking. Diversity is not strength. Diversity is simply the celebration of all foreign cultures and the denial of our own. Diversity is death for White America.
Thanks to radio talk shows and the internet (which the Democrats can’t wait to shut down through their so-called “Fairness Doctrine”)and just simply seeing what’s around us, more and more of us, the founding peoples of this country, are realizing that we’ve been bamboozled for all of these years. We’ve been lied to - Big Time! - for over forty years! Our government, bankers, media, academia have all been working hand-in-hand to open our borders and enhance “free trade” all for the sake of big profits for the “elites” while the rest of us starve!
We are losing more and more of our freedoms each day. We are being taxed more and more in order to support all of these anti-American minorities and illegal border-crossers. We are losing our quality of life, our heritage, our culture, our religious beliefs and principles, and on and on and on…
Our ever-growing government is taking more from us each and every day and giving us nothing but grief and misery in return.
It’s time to get back to the Constitution and the rule of law, and it’s time to take our government back!
We the People must prevail or sink.
This Anchor Baby phenomena should long ago have been prevented by immigration reform legislation. Seek into this country illegally or overstay a visa long enough to have a baby and you’re nearly in, or go back home with your American anchor baby and come back later if you need to. Lots of foreign women every year come to the USA in the late months of pregnancy to establish an anchor baby. It works – democrat politicians get a lot of voters that way. Try to change this and you’re a “racist”.
The European nation — predominantly German, English, Dutch and Scandinavian — that created a great society from nothing here in the Americas has its own culture and heritage.
The rising immigrant nation has another.
Outnumbered liberals used demographics as a weapon against the rest of us.
It’s not just immigrants. Its the immigrants from the lowest strata of Third World countries (like Mexico) that upset the already ailing socio-demographic composition of the American society.
Before Johnson and the disastrous bills that he signed into the law in 1960ties, America were inching towards classless, affluent society.
Now we are moving closer and closer to the point where Bolshevik revolution may turn history back to the Malthusian era (which so many morons call “progress”).
All among us who were tolerating the influx of unassimilating immigrants that were so good at replicating their failed cultures on American land should take the blame for this set back.
June gave the best definition of what America is. An invaded nation, colonized by vast numbers of foreign criminals and lawless self absorbed and self interested people. Thank you June.
“America will become the 3rd world. Does anyone honestly think Jose from Mexico, Mohammad from Pakistan and Dung Ho from Vietnam are going to care about American principles, the Founding Fathers or anything else American??? “
Yes, yes, I know. The neocons and socialists and religious diversitarians firmly believe that once these people have been indoctrinated in “American values” and democratic traditions, they will join the “Proposition Nation” and become good Americans and (just as in any fairy tale) everyone will live happily together forever after. Sure! Just as the French believe (contrary to all evidence) that Africans and Arabs can be transformed into good Frenchmen. Just as Norwegians believe that Somali tribesmen and bandits can become good Norwegians! But this utopian notion is no more than a starry-eyed belief — a mere gamble — based solely on unfounded assumptions, which socialists and their ilk accept (religion-like) as revealed “truth” and beyond questioning. (And they’ll put you in prison if you do question it.)
Most of these disparate peoples who are coming to us from around the world couldn’t even get along with their own kind and neighbors back home. That’s why they’re coming here. So how long will this racial menagerie, with all their conflicting cults and customs, get along with each other once inside our borders? For the time being, they are still new and are distracted with getting established; and for the moment their common (though undeclared) enemy is the White Man … the whites who have everything they want — wealth and power — the same whites who have bent over backwards to do them so much good. But when the whites have been dis-established and are a mere minority, who will hold the country together? How long before these sundry races and religions turn on each other? Who will keep them apart?
In the future, get ready to see all the hatred and conflicts of the Third World brought right to our doorsteps. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
Posted by Donkey at 3:02 PM on November 1:
“White Americans in Iowa started Obama’s roll and Whites will be the ones that elect him if it happens.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are over 95 percent White (non-Hispanic) and hold 11 electoral votes between them. They are all pro-Obama.
Iowa is over 92 percent White with 7 electoral votes. They’re pro-Obama too.
Minnesota and Wisconsin are over 87 percent White with 20 electoral votes. Pro-Obama.
Pennsylvania is over 84 percent White. 21 electoral votes. Pro-Obama.
That’s 59 electoral votes for Obama in states with overwhelming White majorities.
Even Connecticut, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts have White populations of 77 percent to 83 percent. They hold 58 electoral votes between them. All are pro-Obama.
It’s difficult to imagine why any rational White person would select an African to lead him/her. I can only surmise that the vast majority of people in those states have absolutely no experience with Blacks, save those who live in metropolitan areas.
McCain isn’t someone Whites can really rally around anyway, with his “maverick” stand in favor of amnesty for illegals.
As I write this, ABCNews just declared that Obama leads by 9 points, 53 to 44, and almost no one is undecided now. Of course, they’re always right, as we know.
I would like to think they only polled downtown New York City and Detroit. In reality, they could easily have polled only lily-White Vermont and Maine and achieved the same results. Disgusting.
Where do we turn when our own people are content to lie down and surrender America to undesirables?
Sarah Palin has been taken under the wing of the NeoCons.
Posted by John Davis at 9:15 PM on October 31
I’m with ya on that. But, I also think he has had a lot of white cohorts over the past 43 years. And, they’re not all politicians or businessfolk.
Hispanics love to “spread the wealth around.” Just take a look at Chavez down in Venezuela. When the US is 70% poor brown and 30% rich white (in about 25 years at this rate), “spreading the wealth around” will just mean “taking white people’s property for the oppressed brown people” (a la Zimbabwe). This is no joke. It is the inevitable result of our immigration policies and the ever-expanding reach of the federal government.
She isn’t ready to be president or vice president. And after
Posted by Eric the Red at 12:48 AM on November 2
You talk like a neo-con. And I totally disgree with your assessment of Sarah Palin; it’s not based on facts but on perception materfully doctored by the semi-treasonous mass media.
Besides, there is a serious flaw/deception in your “logic”.
We aren’t electing the president and the vp from the pool of all eligible individuals in the nation. We have been restricted in our choices to those who already are on the ballot.
What, in your concerned mind, is a better choice now?
Are you trying to help Obama and his militant anti-white neo-socialists win?
“Sarah Palin has been taken under the wing of the NeoCons.
Posted by Eric the Red at 12:48 AM on November 2”
This is one place where that 600 billion in campaign money is being spent, on internet trolls to flood the web with anti-McCain posts. Don’t take it personal, I know your just doing the job your being paid to do, but in all honesty, who are you really voting for?
Eric the Red at 12:48 AM on November 2
You lefties are absolutely frightened of this woman. Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll grow on you, and if not, maybe you people will really move to Canada this time after the election is over?
The real face of America is represented by those who belong to the same race as the Founding Fathers. However, if Whites are content to remain hypnotized by the mainstream media and stupefied by television the faces of our white Founding Fathers will metamorphose into the faces of Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and Chinese and this is all future our generations will be taught by their Marxist overlords.
All that is required for this to happen is for us to do nothing. I, for one, intend to fight while others wring their hands and complain because they lack the courage of their convictions…
Many non-Whites are assimilating, which is something I don’t want. Mexicans and other non-Whites are intermarring with Whites in droves where I live.
Almost every extended White family I know has non-Whites as part of their family now. You can’t even talk about race anymore with these people.
The only thing that MIGHT save us now is a complete economic collapse.
To show you how bad the changing face of America is just take a look at Virginia. They haven’t voted democratic since 1964, but they will on Tuesday. It’s because of the changing demographics of Northern Virginia. Some of these red states will turn blue permanently because of the exploding population of minorities and immigrants. All the dems need is a couple of red states to turn blue to guarantee a democratic president for the foreseeable future. Once a state turns blue theres no going back, I believe.
I agree with the observation that it is white folks that are going to put BHO in power….These are white folks that are on the government tit….Why do I have to pay the the mailman forever,the teacher forever,and all rest that look to the government for income that they havn’t earned or contributed to….
“This is one place where that 600 billion in campaign money is being spent, on internet trolls to flood the web with anti-McCain posts.”
Do you really think McCain will save us from the third world colonists? He is for amnesty and has no plans on stopping third world immigration. There is really no difference between him and Obama. In short, McCain is white in appearance only.
Hilarious. California will never be a red state again. It’s gone. Write it off. And more, smaller states will follow. The republican party will be rendered impotent. The Bush administration was the last meaningful whimper of the Republican party.
To A Reader, and anonymous at 4:38 and 5:23 p.m.,
“This is one place where that 600 billion in campaign money is being spent, on internet trolls to flood the web with anti-McCain posts.”
“The European nation — predominantly German, English, Dutch and Scandinavian — that created a great society from nothing here in the Americas has its own culture and heritage.”
posted by Chris Stevens at 11:53 AM
Yes, it does. However, I must say there is something inherently flawed with it. As a southern European, I can see that your culture and heritage has turned against itself. Too many Anglos or Saxons are suffering from this lack of racial pride and have meekly accepted the hypocritical labels foisted upon them through academic and media propaganda. While it is repugnant, one must still blame WASPs for falling victim to this treachery-to become so unconscioulsy self-loathing of things ‘white’.
The Republic For Which It Stands “has been hijacked by those who have now figured out a way to get this government to give them a check….And it all happened while whitey was siting on the coach watching the game instead of voting….
Yep. At about this time in another day, it looks like America is going to have its first “black” president. All thanks to our own lazy fools and sappy traitors. Whitey brought it al on himself. Well … Erica Jong, Jane Fonda, and Naomi Wolff can put aside their Valium pills. They’ll be ecstatic. And Barbra Streisand & Co. will be in Nirvana! Not only the Inner Cities will be in jubilation, so will their abettors in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. They’ve finally socked it to White America.
Then our own airbrained Soccer Moms can go back to their soccer games, and sodden Joe Sixpack can go back to his sixpack. Good riddance to them both.
saying she would make a great VP because she has a bunch of kids, belongs to a church, or is a “hockey mom” - like many on this site have done - does not make her even remotely good for her post. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
“Mexicans and other non-Whites are intermarring with Whites in droves where I live. Almost every extended White family I know has non-Whites as part of their family now.” By Steve
Those whites are spoiling their future generations having children with “exotic” women or men. Genes in white people are recessive so this unique genotype will be lost forever. First humans living in Africa had dark skin but after thousand of years white skin appeared in Europe. Why? Under darker skies in high latitudes pale skin absorbs more sunlight than dark skin, allowing ultraviolet rays to produce more vitamin D for bone growth and calcium absorption. Dark skin is only an advantage in Africa and in equatorial latitudes where the sun is intense all the year.
“Mexicans and other non-Whites are intermarring with Whites in droves where I live. Almost every extended White family I know has non-Whites as part of their family now.” By Steve
The other day I was with my kids somewhere and a white man with his white/mestizo kids started talking to me. He made a point to show me his kids and seemed to have much pride in them. I thought he was pathetic if he thinks they’re exotic when they look so common. My little kids stand out in a crowd of mestizos. I felt much pride in showing him my 2 good looking white kids with white skin, dark hair and light eyes. Someday he will lament what he has done while I will be justified in my choice.
Diversity isn’t going anywhere.
What could be changed is the perpetual slide of the white population not only here but in Europe.
The problem is most Caucasians got to sucked into the materialistic culture which puts “having a flatscreen” ahead of raising a family. This drop in family values can only be blamed on ourselves.
The upper middle class lifestyle always was somewhat of a mirage. Don’t worry about jobs going overseas. Don’t worry about our kids not learning math. Don’t worry that their aren’t many white kids.
Maybe by becoming an embattled minority caucasians will gain the determination and vitality that other groups now enjoy.
Let’s face it, most white kids today know more about other cultures than they do their own.
