Harry Reid’s non-English-speaking voting bloc
Nothing smells right about Harry Reid.
His re-election on Tuesday has deepened the stench. Theories are flying left and right to explain the failure of polls that had consistently showed Sharron Angle ahead.
The New York Times points to Latinos as Reid’s hidden salvation. And not just any Latinos. It was apparently Latinos who prefer not to speak English who curiously turned out in droves for Reid.
I riffed a little bit last night on why the public polls might have been wrong in Nevada; I speculated, for instance, that the fact that Mr. Reid is the sort of candidate whom one votes for unenthusiastically might have skewed the turnout models.
There is another theory, however, which was proposed to me last night by Matt Barreto of the polling firm Latino Decisions.
“There is one overarching reason why the polls were wrong in Nevada,” Mr. Barreto wrote in an e-mail to FiveThirtyEight. “The Latino vote.”
His firm, which conducts interviews in both English and Spanish, had found that Latino voters — somewhat against the conventional wisdom — were relatively engaged by this election and for the most part were going to vote Democratic. Mr. Barreto also found that Latino voters who prefer to speak Spanish — about 40 percent of Latino voters in California meet this description, he told me — are particularly likely to vote Democratic. Pollsters who don’t conduct bilingual interviewing at all, or who make it cumbersome for the respondent to take the poll in Spanish, may be missing these voters.
More from Newsweek:
According to election-eve polling and analysis by Latino Decisions, a surveying firm, Hispanics chose Reid over Angle 90 percent to 8 percent—an astounding margin. CNN’s exit polls showed a significantly smaller spread, with Reid winning 68 percent to Angle’s 30 percent. But Latino Decisions argues that exit-polling methodology is typically inaccurate at measuring voting by Hispanics and other subgroups. The firm also contends that exit polls tend to lowball Latino turnout. Still, CNN’s figures show that Hispanics constituted 15 percent of the Nevada electorate this year, a notable increase over the last midterm cycle, in 2006, when they made up 12 percent. “Latinos certainly saved Harry Reid,” says Gary Segura, a member of Latino Decisions and a professor at Stanford University.
So, the least assimilated, non-English-speaking voters turned out for an open-borders Democrat panderer whose top priorities this lame-duck session including passing the illegal alien DREAM Act student bailout.
Hmmmmmmm.
If only we could clone newly-elected, voter fraud-fighting Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and send him to Searchlight.
Reid’s rescuers miraculously appeared after a concerted effort by the Left to stoke the ire of shamnesty supporters and employ illegal aliens as canvassers — not to mention the White House directive from President Obama to Latinos on Univision to “punish our enemies” for their opposition to lax immigration policies.
Reid infamously race-baited in August, taunting Hispanic conservatives as aberrations. And Reid’s non-English-speaking voting bloc surfaced after a massive push by his Purple-Shirted allies at the SEIU and other radical prog groups to get them to the polls. From October 27 on the SEIU website:
If that Pew Hispanic poll from August is still driving your analysis of the Latino vote, you might want to get up to speed: Latino Decisions’ latest tracking poll, released yesterday, shows that the number of Latino registered voters who say they are “almost certain” to show up at the polls is now 75.1% — a full 10% higher than it was four weeks ago, according to previous Latino Decisions research.
…and $5.4 million is going toward making sure it keeps climbing. Last week, a number of national and local organizations highlighted their efforts to turn out the immigrant and Latino vote. Democracia USA, the Campaign for Community Change and the We Are America Alliance, among others, combined forces to announce a $5.4 million nationwide effort. They are targeting over a million Latino, Asian and immigrant voters in twenty-three states.
No wonder they are fighting so hard to sabotage voter ID/proof-of-citizenship requirements.
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U.S. politicians may dream of one day sinking into the presidential bed aboard Air Force One. David Cameron, returning last night from his first trip to the U.S. as British prime minister, took a business-class seat on board a scheduled British Airways flight.
Cameron, trying to cut Britain’s deficit, its largest since World War II, is scaling back on the chartered jets his predecessors used for overseas travel and told his staff to book him on regular flights. Yesterday he traveled to New York from Washington on Amtrak’s Acela train.
“We have got a lot of money to save,” the prime minister told ABC News July 20. “We’ve got a very big budget deficit, so we can’t go spending money on executive planes, sadly.”
While Cameron’s office estimates it is saving several hundred thousand pounds by forgoing chartered jets, that isn’t the only consideration. His party fought the May 6 general election arguing “We’re all in this together.”
Also, I received this email from someone I know personally whose Nevada relative reported to them:
I’m very curious what the FBI is going to do about it.
Requirements for US Citizenship
Language
Applicants for naturalization must be able to read, write, speak, and understand words in ordinary usage in the English language. Applicants exempt from this requirement are those who on the date of filing:
* have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 15 years and are over 55 years of age;
*have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 20 years and are over 50 years of age; or
* have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, where the impairment affects the applicant’s ability to learn English.
Doug already posted about a few days ago this and pretty much everyone was in agreement that the article is totally bunk. No way it is remotely true.
What, no more 747s for Pelosi? BTW: A Republican is now 2nd in the secession line.
Perhaps the GOP candidates were viewed as: “not conservative enough”, “rich Republican CEOs who were “buying” votes”, “responsible for laying off workers and sending jobs overseas”, “no “experience” in polictal
office”.
An indoctrinated view perpetuated by the dems and their public school and media lackeys that Republicans are going to slash taxes for their multimillionaire friends and corporation, slash spending on care for the less fortunate immigrants, elderly, children,and animals and destroy our natural resources, “Oh, heck, the Dems are responsible for creating this mess, vote for them and they can take full responsibility for the states’ demise.”
I could go on and on. Oh, yes, and a state GOP organization that is just about as ineffective as an organization can be and still be considered an organization. I often think the CA GOP should appear with the missing children on those posters and milk cartons.
What budget? Maybe the reason they didn’t pass a budget this year is because Obama would spend the entire year’s budget on this trip to India.
It is not my intention to hijack this thread…so back to topic!! I just hope MM will focus on this India trip some time…there will probably be lots of interesting comments!
Exactly.
If that is the case, Chap, then why is Drudge headlining it again today? I have always thought Drudge was quite thorough in checking before they posted their items. Also, Rush mentioned it the other day. He checks his sources pretty carefully too. So who says it is false??
Well, Michelle Bachman, for one, is talking about it. She calls it “over the top”. My guess is it will pop up on O’Reilly or Hannity tonight. Maybe Baier’s panel. Would be entertaining to hear Krauthammer’s take.
BTW, as long as we’re OT, I’m not a big Beck fan, but if you haven’t seen the clip of Beck et al yucking it up yesterday, it’s a riot! Laughed hard – first time in a loooong time.
Via rightscoop – Glen Beck: Happy days are here again!
Anderson Cooper almost had a stroke yesterday interviewing Michele Bachmann asking her about cutting Social Security, and she turned it around and mentioned the trip to India. She mentioned the $200 million and he asked her where she got the number and she almost winked when she said it was in the press. He practically got spittle on the camera lens asking her if she believed everything she read in the press. He fumed before commercial that she wouldn’t answer his question but I think she was tweaking him. She must have laughed all the way home.
You forgot TOTUS!
You are kidding, right? Drudge slaps up there whatever headline is going to generate the most page views. I sometimes doubt whether he actually finishes the whole article.
The ONLY source for that absurd $200 million number is some unnamed “Indian official” quoted in some obscure Indian news outlet. Yet the usual suspects (see Drudge, Bachmann, Doug Powers, apparently) have run with it, never for once pausing to think or question it.
Ahnold was a Republican, and the Governor, so the CA voter blamed the Republicans.
Never mind the legislature they gave him to work with was overwhelmingly Democrat, and that the voters turned down all of the Propositions he put on the ballot after getting elected. It was all the fault of those dirty Republicans.
Especially George W. Bush, of course. And that darned 2/3 rule that was keeping the Democrat legislature from raising already sky high taxes instead of cutting spending to balance the budgets.
Now they’ve ‘fixed’ all that, and things have gotten so bad they just might get better now even with the ‘fixing,’ for a year or two, anyway, thereby ‘proving’ to the idiots they were correct.
You can’t fix stupid, and the average California voter is as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Well generally the margin of error is 3 percent, and that is for any given poll, and not for a mix of polls with different sources. But from by little hovel in central oregon I saw Huffman get about 41 percent of the vote, as predicted. Walden get 78 percent of the vote as expected, Dudley gets 49 percent of the vote as expected. We are a red area so Republicans won the state house and senate just about as predicted. But I certainly can’t speak for the races in the Willamette valley.
We are probably an outlier. We don’t get good reception on our mobile phones, so to get ahold of us you must call our land line. But we have caller ID, and if we don’t know the caller, we don’t answer the phone.
I assume we are including the military in that as well? Or are they exempt from any and all discussions about pension reform (or any budget scrutiny for that matter)?
Make sure:
1: She only speaks Spanish
or
2: Is an SEIU member.
Just guessing.
Actually i like the FBI and feel sorry for them that people like Holder can influence our Justice System.
As they say ‘it aint over til its over” and it’s not in AZ CD7 and CD8
So those fake MiFamilia Vota registrations may get thrown out and Ruth McClung and Jesse Kelly will defeat the socialists Raul boycott Grijalva and Gabby PelosiGiffords…… it could happen!!!
This explains the problems that RINOS create.
Would love seeing that. We need a rocket scientist in congress.
What’s a TOTUS?
Me too, and more small business owners, and far, far fewer lawyers and ivy leaguers.
Did she ask what he had meant by “Teabagger” and what his experience of teabagging was?
No one is exempt from the discussion. On the other hand, when being a Federal Trade Commission attorney gets paid as little as a Private, or when the job is as dangerous as a couple of tours of Afghanistan, I’ll be more sympathetic…especially since national defense is an actual duty of the government.
I don’t have the figures handy, but I seem to recall that the public sector now pays more than the private sector. Including necessary but hugely overpaid positions like rubbish collector.
The Teleprompter of the United States. Next in line. Then Biden, then Bachmann, oops I mean Boehner.
Actually, she should have had a cup of tea, and every time he asked a question, she could have paused, held it up and dunked the teabag a couple of times…it would have been awesome.
On November 4th, 2010 at 12:53 pm, chapoutier said:
I’ve gotten summons 4 times, most recently in 2003 (local court), 2004 (local court) and 2006 (Federal court). Served the first time (years ago), but took deferrals for the most recent 3 because of my son’s health issues. (I sent in his school attendence record with my letter, and they agreed I wasn’t a good candidate at this time.)
I should be due for another summons here soon, so if you get yourself a CJ id, I’ll let you have my slot. (The irony is that my husband has never been summoned. I don’t know why I’m the lucky one.)
Doug Powers just put up a new thread about Obama’s trip. See you there. Sorry for the interruption!! I really am!
That is funny! I like Biden better without the TOTUS. Bachmann will have a great day returning to the House and seeing Pelosi trying to run things. The worm is turning.
CJ, I love jury duty. It is the least we can do as citizens. I had the fun of being the 1 vs 11 on a conviction, and eventually turn it into a not guilty. Great experience.
In Ahnold’s defense, no Governor could have done anything with the voters spitting on his attempts to fix the state just shortly after the voters elected him.
Your point is a good one in this case, though, because if the Idiot California Voter just elects celebrity Republicans as figureheads they can later blame for the consequences of the acts of the Democrats, it would be better to just give them all Democrats and to Hell with them.
However, in the case of Whitman’s defeat, the Idiot California Voter also just removed the 2/3 rule on passing budgets, so the only thing that might have stood in the way of massive tax increases would have been the threat of a veto by the Governor.
That threat is gone. Now taxes will soar.
On November 4th, 2010 at 2:38 pm, Mister P said:
I enjoyed it, too. We had 12 reasonable people from very disparate backgrounds all trying to see that the right thing was done.
I’d do it again, but later, when my son is older. At the rate I get called, I’ll probably get another chance — or 6 or 7 …
And the exodus of taxpayers and businesses out of CA will excellerate.
Who can I sue? If illegals are voting in any election, I am being disenfranchised. This is a big effing deal. My vote is very important to me. To see it washed away by an illegal who does not have to prove anything is way too easy. I should be able to protect my rights. We need a new civil rights march. We like people who are not like ourselves but not criminals that violate my rights as a citizen.
My Dream act would be to shut off all jobs to illegals. You are not here legally to work, then you can’t work. What a concept. If I don’t pay my taxes, the IRS is all over me. Do that to business that hire illegals. Profiling? Hey, I am getting profiled by having my vote cancelled. My rights count just as much as yours.
On November 4th, 2010 at 2:58 pm, ITookTheRedPill said
“Nothing to see here, folks. Pay no attention to those people in purple shirts working on those machines, just doing their jobs. Move along now.”
As long as the DOJ is being run by Holder, and your state’s AG, judges, and politicians are ovewhelmingly dems and leftsists, you’ll get nowhere. They deem illegal voting an exclusive Dem voting bloc to be fiercely defended.
A lot of things don’t smell right…
Hold up, how did we conclude that illegal aliens are voting?
No one has concluded anything. We’re engaging in our favorite pastime: Speculating. Care to join in?
BTW, how do we know it’s Harry Reid that smells? Maybe it’s just those stinky tourists again.
They are talking about 3600 voters in Multnomah county (near Portland), who had no id or proof of citizenship at all.
He used the word IF.
Thanks for the offer. If skinny jeans don’t go out of fashion soon, I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself. Hideous!
Throw in Hillsboro,Cornelius,McMinnville, and Beaverton(home of the city sponsored Mexican Independence day celebration and no Fourth of July celebration), and there you go-Stolen Election.
Illegals with ID will continue to vote until it’s time to renew their Oregon licenses with the new proof of citizenship requirements.
Part of the reason the Democrats needed Harry Reid to win “by any means necessary” was because this one race is a HUGE role in driving the narrative.
A Reid loss would mean the second consecutive Democratic Senate Majority Leader to lose re-election.
Tom Daschle was majority leader from June 6, 2001 – January 3, 2003 (when Republicans took the majority), and he lost his re-election campaign in 2004. Now, in 2010, polls showed Reid losing his re-election campaign.
However, Harry “muchas gracias” Reid’s stolen election is now spun as a major defeat for Jim DeMint!
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I hope that among the $200 million being spent on Comrade Obama’s(PBUH) India trip are enough bucks for 20 Marine Corps snipers with M14′s, lots of rounds, and suitable anti-tank weapons.
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I’m not a big Messiah fan–but that’s a very tough neighborhood. High tech aircraft carriers are cool–but some low tech can help keep him safe there. I want to see him voted out of office in the November 2012 elections–and can’t wait to see the dejected entourage leaving the White House in January 2013 as the Palins move in.
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John Bibb
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Ha! At first quick glance I thought they excused you because you were talking like Tarzan, “Me lawyer, you Jane” then I saw your colon, er.. um.. you know what I mean!
Roland, you ain’t a lying. California voters fall for pretty language everytime. That is why Prop 25, giving a simple majority budget passing power, was passed. The California voter fell for the, if the budget is not passed, the legislators don’t get paid, line. They failed to realize that as 75% of Cali’s govt is democrat, they just gave these idiots a free pass to write whatever budget they want to, no matter how bloated, paying off the unions with money that will never materialize. Now that the green building codes have been passed, no more building here, no more new business, no more new anything. California will be bankrupt. Brown will be laughing all the way to his tax sheltered mansion anywhere but here.
To the tune of California knows how to party:
California, is mighty stupid…
California, your mighty stupid…
In the city of San Francisco,
In the city of Los Angeles,
In the city of Sacramento
they keep a spending,
the creditors no longer cover them….
doo do do do do do do…
Oh, I’m sure NONE of them did.