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Post by bot on Apr 15, 2004 1:50:28 GMT -5
La Última Palabra!
"I do believe it was a hateful campaign aimed primarily at Mexican immigrants who are just looking for decent work." Donna Stenitzer, Wheaton, IL, voter talking about the campaign ran by U.S. Senate Republican candidate Jim Oberweis. Oberweis lost the Republican primary and is now out of the race. [Chicago Tribune, 03/25/04]
"In short, the GOP Hispanic strategy is in a shambles. Their seemingly clever strategy of targeting Hispanic voters has run into a fairly major problem: the current Republican party has little to offer an overwhelmingly working-class, immigrant-based, minority population such as Hispanics. "We're socially conservative, too" or "some of us speak Spanish" apparently doesn't cut it with a group whose real-life needs call for more government action, not less." - [Hispanic Vista, 3/24/04]
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Post by bot on Apr 15, 2004 2:00:44 GMT -5
"There are those who suggest the Republicans are cynical in their efforts to broaden the base to minorities. 'It's really all about white swing voters, and that's what is so offensive to me,' says Faye Anderson, a former vice chair of the RNC's minority outreach committee. 'Republicans have a race problem. The white swing voters will not support a party that appears harsh, so they use black and brown faces to appeal to white voters, not to take care of those [minority] voters.'" [Washington Post, 4/4/2004]
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