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In Arizona, exploiting the politics of immigration has worked well for Republicans. Signing SB 1070 got Jan Brewer reelected as governor and created a wedge issue that helped the GOP win a two-thirds majority in the Arizona Legislature in 2010.

But it hasn’t been without backlash. Russell Pearce, who led the way in demonizing illegal immigrants, ended up being the first Senate president ever recalled in the history of the United States.

GOP strategists have been warning for some time that a national backlash might be growing as Republican rhetoric on immigration turns off Hispanic voters. Well, check out this Fox News Latino poll:

But the poll shows that the overwhelming choice among likely Latino voters is President Obama. In head-to-head match-ups none of the GOP candidates would garner more than 14 percent of the Latino vote come November, the poll said.

“This is what we’re seeing across the country,” said Gabriela Domenzain, Obama campaign spokesperson. “The more Latinos learn about the candidates, the more they reject them.”

Caught-up in the throes of a bitterly contested primary season, the GOP hopefuls seem to be losing traction among Latino voters.

For Latinos, Immigration is More Personal Than Political, Fox News Latino Poll Says

While the poll indicates that four of five Latinos who voted for Obama in 2008 would vote for him later this year, Latinos who voted for Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain four years ago are now divided between voting for Obama and the Republican candidates. Forty percent said that they favored Obama while 38 percent said they would vote for Romney. Obama also leads Santorum 38 percent to 34, and Gingrich 40 percent to 38.

This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.

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2 replies on “Fox News Latino Poll: Hispanics Souring on GOP Presidential Candidates”

  1. Mitt Romney will gain a lot of headway if the former government creates a point of the E-Verify issue? The American people are hard-up themselves, frustrated with the accumulative unfunded, unfair mandates forced up on them by the courts. Rick Santorum can also do himself a favor by pointing an accusing finger of this current administrations backdoor amnesty. Even Ron Paul or Gingrich could gain some momentum, if they satisfy the general public by building the real fence, closing down Sanctuary Cities, halting chain migration and turning the screw on all business, that complicate matters by hiring illegal workers. Both the “Legal Workforce Act (H.R.2885) and the Birthright Citizenship law (H.R.140) have amazing merits, as a national E-Verify will drive every American business owner to check their employment roster. Those worker who don’t satisfy the combination of form I-9, ICE and Social Security Administration, better travel over to the latter agency, to be verified. Illegal aliens will stay well clear of any government entity. Those employers, who think they can cheat the system, eventually will be caught and harshly punished?

    IF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND STATES KEEP GIVING BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THEIR OFFSPRING, THE ATTRACTION TO THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER END. YET ANOTHER AMNESTY WOULD UNLEASH YET ANOTHER FISCAL MAGNET, BRINGING HORDES OF IMPOVERISHED MIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS TO OUR DOORS. IF AMERICANS FALL TO THE LIES AND PROPAGANDA OF THE LIBERALS, THE STALEMATE WILL REMAIN. RESTRAINING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS NOT ABOUT DESCRIMINATION AGAINST ANY RACE OF PEOPLE, HISPANICS, BLACK OR WHITE? IT’S ABOUT HALTING THE INVASION OF ANYBODY WHO DON”T OBSERVE ILLEGAL ENTRY AS A VIOLATION OF OUR SOVEREIGNTY.

    The Birthright Citizenship bill would end the automatic baby citizen racket, which has been going on for years. Mitt Romney has already spoken about E-Verify and if it’s mandated by Congress, then President Obama, Eric Holder and John Morton, will have a hard time repealing these bills. The American taxpayer is being soaked annually by these federal mandates and above all else, if all companies are compliant, illegal aliens will not risk getting detected and will prefer to leave forthwith. Congress can be blamed for this whitewashed immigration enforcement, when it’s not even a felony to enter America illegally? This seems very strange to me, that unlike other countries as with our neighbor Mexico, entry is a felony and you’re lucky if you can escape jail?

    The “Birthright Citizenship” (H.R.140) Bill that needs every voters attention, as it is singularly the most expensive benefit, that citizens are forced to pay for unfunded mandates. It is purposely concealed that support for illegal aliens cost over $113 billion dollars a year by government and Liberal press editors. If you really want the facts about the illegal alien spread and many other problem that cause Americans unnecessary misery, then you need to view the uncensored pages, not suppressed by the far Left media at (Google) http://www.americanpatrol.com/ For information about the dishonesty in Washington and state congressional seats of power, check the web pages of the (Google) http://www.judicialwatch.org/

    There is a burning urgency for all Americans to contemplate phoning or otherwise contacting Democrat, Republican Senators and House Congressmen at 202-224-3121 to inform them strongly you want both nationwide E-Verify and the citizenship bill passed.
    The original fence(s) to be constructed as a double layer, parallel 15 foot steel and concrete barrier, with the interior fence of a steel lattice like exists in prison compounds, with a nasty topping of razor wire. The 2006 Secure fence act was discarded by both parties as to expensive, so instead there are now hundreds of miles is nothing, but a few strands of rusty barbed wire, which an inquisitive cow could get through.

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