By Steve Sailer
02/07/2008
In the California primary, Hillary won big among Latinos in California by running as a tax and spend Democrat, while Obama ran as a pro-illegal immigrant. The LA Times article says:
The Obama campaign, by contrast, aired Spanish-language radio ads promoting his support for issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. That was a "classic Northeastern assumption" that licenses were the primary concern of Latinos, according to Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC."It’s not. I think he would have had much more traction on issues like education, or the loss of jobs … issues that resonate with Latino homeowners," Pachon said.
Yes, Obama is from the Midwest not the Northeast, but in California, everything beyond Las Vegas is considered "back East."
The thing that people back East like Obama are always forgetting is that illegal immigrants aren’t supposed to vote. Granted, a few do vote illegally, but most wouldn’t vote even if it was legal. They have more than enough drama in their private lives.
Hispanics who can vote mostly don’t really care much about illegal immigrants. They might want legal immigration expanded so they can sponsor more close relatives, but illegals are a pain in the neck — some third cousin shows up and wants to sleep on your couch for a year until he gets settled.
But most politicians and journalists don’t know that because the "experts" they talk to about Hispanics — such as Hispanic political consultants — all want more illegal immigrants because it makes them seem more important. They want to be the "voice" of not 45 million people but, of 90 million or 180 million. Think how much business they would get then!
On the other hand, maybe all this dissection of the California voting is premature. Do we even really know who won the California primaries? I noticed this rather disturbing paragraph in the Thursday morning LA Times article:
"Stephen Weir, head of the state association of elections officials, estimated Wednesday that up to 2 million ballots remained uncounted. An additional 450,000 provisional ballots, filed when there is a dispute at a polling place, were also uncounted, according to Weir, the clerk-recorder of Contra Costa County. Elections officials have until March 4 to complete their tally, on which rests the division of party delegates."
Up to two million uncounted votes?
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