Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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@tmaddin
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, the racist generalization is that all Latinos are the same. Latinos in America are not some homogenous, nationless group of immigrants
Er, my point precisely. Like whites, they focus on their concerns of raising their kids, putting food on the table and healthcare, rather than being overly obsessed or identified with their being hispanic.
Many studies have supported this, and even with all the late noise about immigration the Republicans have stirred, a full 41% of Latinos see no difference between the parties on the matter. Similarly while 59% of Latinos support Hillary Clinton, only 15% support Barrack Obama. Given that the Latinos are strategically located and poised to decide the election, it should been a grave concern to all that an Obama primary win will not only lose the election, but will alienate hispancis from the party.
pewhispanic.org/files/reports/83.pdf for more information.
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@jonathanseer
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you make some valid points, but I just can't help but feel that we will only make progress and lift ourselves up by unifying rather than by factioning.
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@LLB - there you go again.
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's become more than tiresome, your endless diatribes about Obama's lead in delegates (near ALL which came from states apt to go Repub in the General) when in fact those delegates were obtained by caucuses representing less than 10% of the primary vote and is skewed towards elitist liberals who can take a day off of work to spend 10 hours there and unemployed urbanites.
Mrs. Clinton has consistently won the popular vote and therefore clearly would deserve to lead even if the obamateur's inexperience were not the glaring problem it is to anyone who isn't wearing the koolaide glasses.
That said I hope we never see this ticket for reasons I've already presented. It won't work and it rewards a party-destructive faction for their insistance upon snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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@peeps
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some history. Bill Clinton got 72% of the hispanic vote, but John Kerry only got 56% of it. George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 did very well and the Republicans have been coming after the vote hard. Their grandstanding on immigration did not help, but it's important to note that only 41% of hispanic voters view a difference between the parties on immigration matters.
Poll after poll shows hispanics, much like the rest of America to be interested in 1) the economy 2) education and 3) healthcare. Unsurprisingly Iraq is much further down the list than it is for white liberals up in Vermont and such.
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ER
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a compromise, there must be mutual sacrifice. If Obama were at the top of the ticket, what would he be sacrificing?
The election to John McCain by all logic since he lost to Hillary in every major electorate state except Illinois and in Florida and New Jersey and the SW and every state where the hispanics count.
Sorry but I'm just not seeing how caucuses representing less than 10% of the primary vote in states apt to go Republican should somehow count for more than the popular vote - even if I supported the Obamateur on the ticket anywhere, which I admit I don't.
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yes, of course you did Troll
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shawn; I worked in a hospital for twelve years, was involved in arranging health care coverage, and all the irrelevant stuff.
Certainly. LOL! And in all that time somehow you didn't learn that health care coverage isn't "arranged in hospitals" and not only don't know how to spell Pfizer, but don't realize that it's a pharmaceutical and not an insurance company.
What a sorry, vulgar,cartoon you are indeed.
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Person, a few questions for you.
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you even bothered to do look at who the top 3 or 5 health insurance companies are in the USA, and it does vary by state. Do you know if John Hancock even provides health insurance policies in your state (or anywhere). Do you know the state by state number and market shares of what is referred to as Small Group Insurers?
If the answer to all of this is as I suspect "No", than you really shouldn't be having this discussion. Health outlays and insurance in the USA are very complicated. Understand I am not in any way defending insurance companies, many of them have indeed behaved in ways that are atrocious at times (but no worse than the federal govt which near routinely denies claimsd), but this idea that the larger providers are just hoarding profits and that health care providers are rolling in big profits is just not true. The margins in healthcare are actually very thin.
The problem is the SYSTEM is broken and it's become a greater and greater strain as the population ages and as the nation is awash in red ink.
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I think the problem with the assertion that this will hit McCain is that it depends upon
[Read the article: So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a belief among the electorate that the Democratic candidate will be any more effective at solving it. Somehow I'm not sure that Obama's vague assurances of change are going to do it.
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Again, not true Maddie
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary has won the big states, but she is also winning in big states that tend to vote democratic anyway
Not true. You can't assume that. If you do, you should revisit McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis general election results.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, all of the southwest, not to mention Florida, Rhode Island, Ohio are very much not guaranteeed to Democrats by any means. In fact with an Obama ticket you can't even assume you'll win NY and Mass.
Factor in that Obama's support comes near exclusively from pocketed white liberals near university towns or famous lefty states like Vermont or from blacks in the deep south and midwest states that are very tough for a Dem to win, and you can't objectively say that the Obamateur has any shot at winning. His worst support is with populist working voters, the elderly and hispanics: 3 groups critical and I repeat CRITICAL for the Dem to win the general.
Those of us who are pointing this out are NOT doing so to be mean and nasty, much as some of the more unhinged members of the Obamateur supporters might deserve, but rather out of genuine knowlege of history, demographics and a desire to see a Dem in the WhiteHouse.