POLL: The cost of Sotomayor opposition - GOP approval among Latinos craters (3% vs 14% in April).

[jefferson_dem]

The cost of Sotomayor opposition
by kos

The cost of Sotomayor opposition Fri Aug 07, 2009 at 04:38:04 PM PDT
Check this out:

Republican Party approval rating among Latinos

April 27-30 August 3-6

Favorable 14 3
Unfavorable 73 86
No Opinion 13 11


The first column is the week that Justice Souter retired, which was soon followed by speculation of Sotomayor's nomination (she was the frontrunner). That is the reference week. The second is this week.

Republicans were already lagging badly with Latinos, yet somehow, they managed to lose a net 24 favorability points over the course of three months. And for what? To keep the dying 1950s Pat Buchanan-wing of the party happy? Great call, there.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/7/763046/-The-cost-of-Sotomayor-opposition

[saltpoint]

1. Those Pukes sure are on top of current trends, aren't they?

[Robb]

2. Someone told them the Latino population was getting smaller? nt

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Actually I believe the Latino population is growing smaller.

It only stands to reason--more Latinos are born in this country every year, and everyone knows that newborns are smaller than grownups, so the average Latino must be smaller than in the past. See? The Republicans know what they're doing.

[Kber]

23. snort!

snarfle!

[Honeycombe8]

4. And now Martinez has resigned as FL senator. Bwahahahahaha!

I'm sure this nosedive in losing the support of a huge entire group of people will be studied for decades to come. They couldn't have planned it any better, even if that was their intention!

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Republican Party - group of old, white, overweight, wealthy men....with a few southern white rednecks and their wives thrown in.

[Uzybone]

6. I think he was waiting just to vote yea for Sotomayor

and then ran from the RepubliKKKlan party as fast as he could.

[Honeycombe8]

9. I think so, too. Or else he got such flack for the vote, that that made him make the final

decision to leave.

[TomCADem]

5. I Think They Are Going All-In On Southern Strategy II

This is a variation of the idea that the reason why they lost in 2008 is that they were not right wing enough. Instead, the argument goes that with a Black President and a Latina Supreme Court justice, the Republicans can win by going all in and maximizing uneasiness among whites even at the costs of losing more support among minorities. My take is that the Republicans are just throwing in the towel, and will just plead the white male victimhood card over and over again through 2010.

[grytpype]

7. They know they have to appeal to Hispanics to survive...

But they can't stop the racism. It's in their bones, it's who they are and they can't change.

Which means they are finished.

[Arkana]

8. Heh...meanwhile, as the nation gets more diverse, Republicans piss

all over anyone who isn't old and white, thus making left-leaning Independents and even Democrats out of them.

[spooky3]

10. What really ticks me off...

is the implication in the media that someone who votes against Sotomayor risks offending Latinos simply because she is Latina.

This is racist.

She is eminently qualified for this position and more experienced than any other recent nominee. Unlike Alito and Roberts, whose records were objectionable to those who didn't want ideologues added to an already too-right wing court, Sotomayor's record puts here squarely in the moderate range.

Latinos and other fair minded persons object when someone votes against an eminently qualified person for the job when others who are no better, or even less, qualified but members of other dominant groups have sailed through. No reasonable, job-related basis for voting against her has been demonstrated.

[Hansel]

15. I think that there are a sizable number of Latinos

who are pissed off at those whose motivation for voting against her was that she was Latino. And there is plenty of evidence that that is the reason some did vote against her.

I see your point though and agree. If she had been completely unqualified, the Latino population would care less had she not been approved. However, they would have still been angry at anyone whose vote clearly was motivated by racism.

The media generalizes in a racist way without even knowing it.

[spooky3]

17. Your first paragraph makes the same point I'm making.

Because she is eminently qualified - more so than other recent nominees - one must question WHY anyone would vote against her. Because she's so moderate and Obama clearly could have nominated someone much more to the left, there really isn't even the ideological grounds argument that can be made that could have been made about Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, etc. All signs point to racism (and sexism) as the main reason for votes against. THAT'S what is upsetting.

[Cha]

22. Yeah, we have pat buchanan to thank for

that.

"And there is plenty of evidence that that is the reason some did vote against her."

[scheming daemons]

11. Damn.. they get better numbers from blacks than that! Permanent Dem majority, baby!

[Vidar]

12. Glad that worked out so well for the assholes.

[GivePeaceAchance]

13. Definitely someone very pro LGBT for the next appointment that'll tip the balance nicely in our ...

favor. At least then any future prop 8's will have a stronger chance to be knock down in flames.

[TheKentuckian]

14. 3%

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Nyquil Man]

16. Do you realize they'd have to win about 65% of the white vote to overcome that?

If anything, the GOP's share of the white vote is declining in relation to its total share of the vote.

They get hammered among Hispanics/Latinos, hammered among AAs, hammered among Asians, hammered among Native Americans, hammered among almost all minority groups.

The GOP better get its collective shit together.

[Bullet1987]

18. I remember the GOPs pipe dream of soldifying a large Latino voting block

As the months go by, that looks less and less likely.

[burning rain]

19. Makes me think Kay Bailey Hutchison ought to run as a Democrat...

for governor of Texas. The Texas Republican party is wingnutty enough, so its primary electorate has to be really freakish. Hard to see how KBH can win there, absent some ridiculous meltdown on Perry's part. But if she ran as a Democrat, she'd hold all the Democratic vote, pick up some of the saner Republicans, as well as more Hispanics generally. Sure, she's a conservative, but she's not a maniac, and I suspect Texas Democrats would take her so as to rack up a win for a change. And many Texas Democrats aren't recognizably Democratic by the usual standards, anyway.

[mkultra]

20. Bush got a good portion of latino votes

He needed that boost to win. No that more of this block has seen what the GOP is really like, It will take them decades to rebuild that group.

[Cha]

21. Yeah, you have to wonder if the republicons are

stuck in some sort of time warp..unable to budge out the deep ruts they patterned for themselves?