Hispanic Enthusiasm for Obama Gets Weaker
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U.S. Latinos, who helped Barack Obama win the presidency, are increasingly apathetic about politics and may not vote next year, Latino voters and pollsters say.
“The only upside for Democrats is that it’s not like the GOP is winning a ton of fans among Latino voters,” Gabriel Sanchez, research director for Latino Decisions, a non-partisan polling group, told The Miami Herald.
“But as we get closer to the election, Latino enthusiasm for voting is getting weaker and weaker and that’s not a good sign for Obama,” he said.
Thirty-one percent of Hispanic registered voters strongly approve of the job Obama is doing, an impreMedia/Latino Decisions poll released Thursday indicated.
Thirty-two percent somewhat approve, the telephone poll of 600 registered voters found.
In May 2009, Obama enjoyed a peak approval rating of 82 percent of Latino voters, the Herald said.
The October impreMedia/Latino Decisions survey has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
“We know the country was messed up even before Obama got here, but he promised us jobs,” Hector Rivera, 37, told the Herald.
Rivera lost his job at Lowe’s home-improvement store in St. Petersburg, Fla., three months ago. His wife was laid off from a health center and they lost their home.
Rivera is washing dishes at a Mexican restaurant but has given up on politicians. “I’m not going to vote at all,” he said.
The unemployment rate among Latinos is 11.3 percent, more than 2 points higher than the 9.1 percent rate among the general U.S. population.
Democrats say the 2009 economic stimulus kept 1.9 million Latinos out of poverty.
And Maria Elena Ferrer, a non-partisan consultant with New York’s Humanamente and co-author of the just-released book “Spirituality and Politics,” told United Press International Monday political indifference will never create change.
“People need to be involved in politics for politics to change,” she said. “It doesn’t work if we just wash our hands and then blame others for the way things are.”
But Leslie Vega, a 23-year-old nurse whose fiance lost his job a year ago, told the Herald she feels “like things are never going to change.”
“I’m just kind of over politics at this point,” she said.
The Americano / UPI
If the people can’t see what Obama and George Soros is doing than people are closing their eyes and hearing off. This Obama wants to destroy our country. We have 70 democrat congress people who are socialist party members. The democratic party is not what it use to be. If Obama gets elected again this wonderful country will be just like Germany when Hitler was running things. I don’t vote because i’am democrat or republican, i vote for the one i think can do best for our country and our people. I can’t believe people don’t research Obama and Soros to see what they are all about. Lets help save this country from these selfish people. “GOD BLESS AMERICA”
How can someone say they believe in the constitution when Obama is doing everything he can to destroy what our founding fathers put together. If we don’t get back to our constitutional values this country will be lost.If you vote for Obama you can’t believe in the constitution. Please check things out.
I did not vote for Obama. The writing was on the wall. Obama has been a far left career politician all his life. Obama’s association with Jeremiah Wright (black liberation theology), The Alinsky organization, scandal ridden Rezko, and Farrakan and the Black Muslims, so it does not surprise me that his policy have been detrimental to our way of lives and values, and the direction of our country has been led. Obama’s administration reminds me of the Carter years. We all need to band together and vote conservative. It is not perfect, however we as the voters can make it better. We are a resilient society as long as we stay together and not divided. No matter what ethnic group. God Bless America!!!
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