Pew Study on Hispanics
Posted by Matt Ortega on September 19, 2008 at 04:09 PM
Pew Research published troubling numbers as Hispanics are hurting even harder in the Bush/McCain economy. The Hispanic community took a huge hit in the housing downturn, and with the widening financial crisis, Hispanics are getting hurt across the board.
Half (50%) of all Latinos say that the situation of Latinos in this country is worse now than it was a year ago, according to a new nationwide survey of 2,015 Hispanic adults conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center.
This pessimism is especially prevalent among immigrants, who account for 54% of all Hispanic adults in the United States. Fully 63% of these Latino immigrants say that the situation of Latinos has worsened over the past year. In 2007, just 42% of all adult Hispanic immigrants -- and just 33% of all Hispanic adults -- said the same thing.
Hispanics, also, view Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in a much more positive light than John McCain and the rest of the Bush/McCain Republicans.
About half (49%) of all Latinos say that the Democratic Party has more concern for Hispanics, while just 7% say the Republican Party has more concern. Since 2004, the share of Hispanics who say that the Democratic Party has more concern for Hispanics has increased by 14 percentage points. Most of this gain for the Democrats comes from a reduction in the share of Latinos who say there is no difference between the parties.
Among Hispanics who are registered voters, a majority say that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is the better candidate for Hispanics (55%) and for immigrants (50%). Just 11% of Hispanic registered voters say that Republican presidential nominee John McCain is better for Hispanics, and just 12% say he is better for immigrants. The remainder see no difference between the two candidates on this front. Overall, Hispanic registered voters support Obama over McCain by 66% to 23%. [emphasis added]
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In this country, in a continuing replay of the early days of the Great Depression, Hispanics especially Mexicans are being scapegoated as causing the economic problems of working people instead of being fellow victims of the unregulated greed of the rich who have been pandered to by the Republicans and Republi-lite DINOS.
Hispanics, even those who, like the Cubans in Florida are traditional Republicans, are now seeing that the Republicans will not provide solutions to the current crises, nor are they providing anything resembling the social justice demanded by our Catholic faith for it is not enough to oppose abortions if, after birth, children allowed to go hungry, ill-schooled, and with poor medical care, especially in a country which was once a world leader, and which has, under the Bushiato, betrayed its promise to be "of the people, by the people and for the people" as a great Republican president once said!
McCain and his Trojan Moose Sarah Palin only promise a continuation of the policies who brought us to this mess.
Obama is the only solution! Viva Obama!
Si! Se puede! Y con Obama nos podremos!
In our line of work we has seen tragedy among the hispanic population. Throughout our cities they are abondoning their homes and lives in the United States and moving to Mexico and other countries of origin. Under the existing laws and growing hatred for "undocumented immigrants" they are no longer able to find work to provide for their families here. Mothers are having to work to provide for their families on their own as fathers and husbands are deported. Under current policy these families, our neighbors, are greatly suffering and living in constant fear. Illegal immigrants who brought their children here at young ages are now faced with the threat of not being able to educate them. Imagine coming from another country to the US, growing up like an american child, maybe not ever learning your native language due to shame and fear, yet be threatened to be deported to a country you know nothing about. These people, these families, our friends, our neighbors maybe cannot vote but to me they are just as American as anyone here. If there suffering souls could have a say in the polls to the country they have formed their lives and families in, I'm sure they would cry for change, for help, for a brighter future. I am sure they would ask to be looked at as people, not as the dogs. That change is Obama. He has the ability to bring us all together, not as black, or whites, or hispanics, or asians, but as PEOPLE who love this country.
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