Could it be a Blue Texas in 2008?
MySA.com: Latino backlash against GOP immigration policy a gift to Demos
Republican efforts to placate anti-immigration voters by calling for enforcement-only laws, including a 700-mile border fence, appear to have backfired.
They also offer newly empowered Democrats with a gift-wrapped opportunity to press their advantage.
An exit poll of 1,215 Latino voters in eight states, including Texas, showed that in the midterm elections, 66.6 percent of Latino voters supported Democrats in congressional elections this year, while 28.7 percent supported Republicans.
The poll, released Friday by the William C. Velásquez Institute, showed that 17.8 percent of Latinos made their voting decisions based on immigration policy, compared with 3.4 percent in 2004.
I am looking at the bills that Leo Berman and Texas House and Senate Republicans are filing against Latinos and am just dumbfounded. They are oppressive, horrific pieces of legislation. They seem to have forgotten that our state is over a third hispanic. Well, I think they remember but just don’t care. I can’t imagine how they can expect to be reelected and that gives me hope that my state will finally come around.
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