The overwhelming majority of Hispanic voters in the United States are of Mexican descent, with those hailing from the “Isla del Encanto” (Puerto Rico) coming in a somewhat distant second.
With this said, can someone like Senator Marco Rubio, who is currently running for president, able to transcend his message across the Hispanic community?Just because Rubio is Hispanic does not necessarily mean that all Hispanics, especially those of Mexican descent, will come out and vote him into the Oval office next year.
The bulk of the Mexican and Puerto Rican voting bloc are loyal Democrats, and vote along party lines.
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While Hispanics are inherently conservative, like the Black community, they have been able to take advantage of the Welfare state that his country has become, and have been indoctrinated by the Democrat Party into accepting those goodies.
Who is going to pass up free government cheese?
No one.Cuban-Americans, like Rubio, have been pegged by many Hispanics, especially Mexican-Americans, as having a so-called “pass” to be in this country because of the existing foreign policy and immigration benefits that has existed since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba.
There are also quite a few Mexican-Americans who believe that their ancestors “old Mejico” was stolen from them, and wish to see a huge swath of the American Southwest returned to “Mejico.”
While these are just few amigos that think this way, the majority of those Mexican-Americans that vote Democrat sympathize for those fellow countrymen who cross over from Mexico illegally.
Moreover, some of the race-baiting leftists sympathetic to the illegal immigration cause, see Rubio as not being one of them because he does not look like them.
Meaning, he is not as ethnic-looking as they would like him to be.
Democrats own the illegal immigration debate because Republicans have failed to counter the “let them all in because they are poor” Democrat Party message, making it virtually impossible for even Spanish-speaking Hispanics like Rubio to win over the majority of this voting bloc.With this said, if anyone can win over larger numbers of Hispanic voters, it’s Rubio.
Remember, Hispanics are tribal. They will vote for their own before anyone else, unless that person is a total political clown. Maybe.
Again, the majority won’t vote for a Hispanic like Rubio, but Rubio wouldn’t need all of them to vote for him to win the presidency.
All Rubio needs to do is garner enough support, if he wins the Republican presidential nomination, is to pick off enough Hispanic votes on election night to win the overall election.
President George W. Bush won 40% + of Hispanics in 2004, what makes anyone think that Rubio could not best that number, considering that he looks, sounds, and relates with the plight of the majority of Hispanics in this country.If he wins the GOP presidential nomination, and the presidency in 2016, Rubio would then be able to do what no other president has been able, or has refused to do, and that is change the conversation about immigration being the issue that really only matters to Hispanics and other immigrants.
A President Rubio would be able to change the narrative, which could possibly lead to more Hispanics subscribing to the Republican Party platform of less government, personal accountability, and no free cheese.