Jeb Bush Has Doubts Romney Or Gingrich Can Win A Majority Of Hispanic Voters

[ProSense]

Jeb Bush Has Doubts Romney Or Gingrich Can Win A Majority Of Hispanic Voters

By Alex Seitz-Wald

MIAMI, Florida — At a brief press availability tonight at the Hispanic Leadership Network conference here, former GOP Florida governor Jeb Bush suggested that he doesn’t think either Republican presidential frontrunner can win a majority of Hispanic voters in this year’s general election. Bush, who has worked hard to push the GOP to reach out to Hispanics, including writing an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday titled, “Four ways Republicans can win Hispanics back,” alternated between English and Spanish this evening while fielding questions about the Republican field.

But asked how Republican frontrunners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich can win Hispanic voters, given their anti-immigration stances, Bush replied, “I don’t know if they can a win a majority.” Watch it:

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/26/412996/jeb-bush-has-doubts-romney-or-gingrich-can-win-a-majority-of-hispanic-voters/

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Let's look at more objective data: a fresh Univision/ABC News Florida poll:

Obama 50
Romney 40

Obama 52
Gingrich 38

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Washington Post national poll, December 28, 2011:

Obama 68
Romney 23

ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions, 9/30-10/9:

Obama 61
Generic Republican 17

PPP, 9/30:

Obama 67
Romney 29

The bottom line? Latinos may be disappointed in the lack of progress on immigration reform the last few years. But they saw who voted against the DREAM Act in Congress, and they see who is still campaigning against the DREAM Act. They see who is demagoguing Mexico and kowtowing to the notorious Latino-hating Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and they see who is passing anti-immigrant laws in places like Arizona and Alabama. They know that Romney wants to make things so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they "self-deport."

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/26/1058744/-Republicans-have-an-opening-with-Latinos

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "alternated between English and Spanish"

Oh no.... that's a definite NO NO in the repuke party!

ENGLISH ONLY! RAH RAH USA! USA!

[Xipe Totec]

2. ORLY? Gee... Who would've thunk...

I'll vote for Gingrich the day he disembowels himself and serves his rendered fat ass as chicharrones cooked in green sauce.

[teddy51]

3. I see a Jeb Bush being put forward for the General against Obama for 2012!

We will see if this comes to pass. Why did he meet with China's VP last week? I don't know, but China's Xi Jingping was willing to meet with Jeb Bush and welcome him into the hierarchy of China.

[ProSense]

4. I really

"I see a Jeb Bush being put forward for the General against Obama for 2012!"

...don't see that happening.

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Jeb Bush v. Obama: What if?

Since some Republican commentators continue to clamor for an alternative to the current Republican field, we included Jeb Bush in this month’s PurplePoll to measure the current Republican candidates against a popular former Republican governor who is not in the race.

Though Governor Bush carries the assets and liabilities associated with the Bush brand, and has of course not run a campaign, he nevertheless runs just as strongly in a general election trial heat as the current Republican field. He trails President Obama by just five points (42%-47%) in the critical 12 Purple States that will determine the election’s outcome.

Governor Bush is well liked among Republicans in these swing states – 49% offer favorable ratings. Importantly, he has the lowest unfavorable number among GOP swing state voters: 26%, which is 9 points lower than Gingrich, and 12 points lower than Romney. Gingrich is the least liked of the three among independent voters (29% favorable, 55% unfavorable).

http://www.purplestrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/Purple-Poll-Results-12.2011.pdf

Republicans have nothing.

No more white knights

By Steve Benen

Republican voters, activists, leaders, and pundits are all coming to the same realization: in November, either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich will be the GOP nominee against President Obama. And as this insight takes root, many of those same voters, activists, leaders, and pundits are once again asking, “Are we sure it’s too late to nominate someone else?”

The latest is the New York Times’ Ross Douthat, who weighed in yesterday.

For months now, even as the rest of the conservative commentariat has gradually resigned itself to the existing presidential field, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol has continued to pine — publicly, unstintingly, immune to either embarrassment or fatigue — for another candidate to jump into the race. He’s dreamed of Mitch Daniels, touted Chris Christie, talked up Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, name-dropped Jeb Bush, and circled back to Daniels once more. He’s quoted poetry on behalf of his cause — Yeats, and (with some revisions) Andrew Marvell. He’s endured snark from the Huffington Post, eye-rolling from Slate, mockery from New York Magazine. But he’s continued undeterred — and in the wake of Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina victory, he was back at it again, throwing out a link to “a new online petition was launched Saturday night … at runmitchrun.com.”

And do you know what? He’s been right all along. Right that the decisions by various capable Republicans to forgo a presidential run this year have been a collective disgrace; right that Republican primary voters deserve a better choice than the one being presented to them; and right, as well, that even now it isn’t too late for one of the non-candidates to change their mind and run.

Sigh.

Over the late summer and early fall, when a large number of party officials expressed deep dissatisfaction with the GOP field, it was not unreasonable to reach out to possible candidates watching from the sidelines. Indeed, to a certain extent, these efforts worked — Rick Perry got into the race.

But September was a long time ago. Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina have already weighed in, and Florida is a week away. I don’t blame Republicans for feeling underwhelmed, at a minimum, by the prospect of a Gingrich or Romney nomination, but it’s past time for the right to come to terms with the reality of the situation.

There are no white knights coming to rescue the party. It’s simply too late. As Eric Kleefeld documented nicely, “In every primary state up through early April, the filing deadlines have passed. That includes the very delegate-rich Super Tuesday of March 6…. [F]or a Republican hero to ride in on a white horse, it would take a scenario that verges on political science fiction: A combination of write-in voting where applicable — and for Romney to fully drop out and endorse this new savior candidate, to essentially bequeath his place on the ballot by telling his pledged delegates elected in this manner to go along with it.”

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/no_more_white_knights034955.php

[DCKit]

5. Wealthy Cuban-Americans will vote the straight (R) ticket...

Others from Mexico, Central and South America, not so much.

I've never met anyone from Central America who just doesn't shake their head at the concept of (R)-Cubans. It's the same situation with (R)-Gays. Why would anyone vote for a party that is vocal in their hatred of your minority and wishes to deny Civil Rights to you?

[DonCoquixote]

6. Jeb is warming up

for that brokered convention in Tampa. Expect him to come into Tampa with Rubio in hand, flanked by Cubans, and his Mexican wife.

[DonCoquixote]

7. and I am Puerto Rican

So do not call me racist, I just know how he loves to wrap himself in brown when it suyits them, then go off with the good ol boys to make deals.

[eShirl]

8. Now, listen to a story bout a man named Jeb

poor exGovernor, barely kept his family fed
then one day came a Newt and a Mitt
and out through the screen came a-bubblin' shit...

Next thing you know, ol' Jeb's the nominee
Said to his dad and his bro, lookimee
They said, Washington is the place you oughta be
So he loaded up the jet, and he flew to DC.

The Bush Dynasty

(banjo solo)