I am no fan of "Faux News" but if the following is true I must ask two questions:

1) Which country does McCain want to represent as president?

2) What is he doing meeting with an apparent racialist organisation like the "National Council of La Raza?"

A large percentage of American citizens are Latino with a good many of them of Mexican background. It's only right and politically smart to recognise their cultural sides and court their votes.

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"If ever you doubt America’s place in the world, or hesitate about your power to influence events for the better, look to Ireland. Look to the good you have done. . . . to be Irish is to be at home in America." Outgoing Irish PM Bertie Ahern before the US Joint Session of Congress. April 30, 2008.

True. But they should probably learn that most Latinos, and even most Mexicans, don't give two shits about sin-koh day ma-jo.

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"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

True, hehe. The celebration here is more in line with Taco Bell, etc. In America it's really more of a bar and nightclub marketing scheme, another excuse to have a drinking out night.

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"If ever you doubt America’s place in the world, or hesitate about your power to influence events for the better, look to Ireland. Look to the good you have done. . . . to be Irish is to be at home in America." Outgoing Irish PM Bertie Ahern before the US Joint Session of Congress. April 30, 2008.

Latinos are gong to make or break this election. McCain is going to have to betray his instincts on immigration to appeal to the conservative base in southwestern states. This will cause him to lose latino voters AND those who think he is a "maverick." As McCain is forced to campaign more and more like Bush to win his base it will be harder and harder for him to win the white house.

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If you stop trying to bring the Bible into the classroom, I'll stop secretly sneaking biology textbooks into the pews on Saturday nights. Deal?

If the flag is precious to YOU, then don't burn YOURS.

In all fairness, Bush has always been significantly more reasonable about immigration than most of the Republicans in office. He seems to get it, that either the Republicans or the Democrats are going to need the hell out of Latinos in the future, and that neither party can afford to get on their collective bad side.

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"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

Not here is Atl, they were all in the streets on and off Jimmy Carter Blvd drunk as hell. Police were stopping traffic just to keep them from getting ran over. Corona and Miller Lite bottles are still everywhere up and down the JC and the side streets.

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hes pandering, as osb said hes gotta make a play for their votes. The rep.s are shut out when it comes to the black minority vote so, they're up.

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I am the same man and do not alter, it is you who change, since in fact you took my advice while unhurt, and waited for misfortune to repent of it....
But you must not be seduced by citizens like these nor be angry with me- who, if I voted for war, only did as you did yourselves.

Pericles's Funeral oration

Strange situation.

McCain is perhaps the only GOP candidate who has broad appeal to the Latino community, and that is probably the most under-rated story in this election season.

All of the media coverage so far seems to assume the US consists of caucasians and African Americans, and no one else. But both the Latino and Asian vote are highly significant.

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

But how will McCain win southwestern states if he panders to Latinos? Latinos, by far, are registered as democrats in this election. Unlike white voters they aren't digging their heels in about Obama at the rate uneducated whites are. If McCain takes a hardline on immigration, they will flock to Obama. If he takes a soft line on immigration, he will have trouble with whites in southwestern states.

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If you stop trying to bring the Bible into the classroom, I'll stop secretly sneaking biology textbooks into the pews on Saturday nights. Deal?

If the flag is precious to YOU, then don't burn YOURS.

Uneducated whites....

That's the way to appeal to voters!

I love it.

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

Now who's being politically correct. Obama has trounced Clinton in every state with college educated whites. She has trounced him with those with no college whatsoever. That is merely a fact. Did college education somehow not become a goal for millions of Americans? I certainly don't see Republicans "home schooling" their kids after the age of 18. You can be as obtuse about it as you wish, the exit polls say what you need to know. Whites with less education vote Clinton.

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If you stop trying to bring the Bible into the classroom, I'll stop secretly sneaking biology textbooks into the pews on Saturday nights. Deal?

If the flag is precious to YOU, then don't burn YOURS.

That's the way Obama will win - just keep referring to white people who have not completed college as those "uneducated whites".

Yeah!

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

It may not sound right or appropriate but "Uneducated Whites" is a demographic that gives Hillary a lot of support.

And a person who isn't educated is uneducated. You could of course play a game of semantics.

And why is this McCain thread turning into a Hillary/Obama thread? Is McCain really that boring? Personally I don't see a lot of reason for Hispanics to support McCain or the Democrats.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

It's a bit difficult to leave the other candidates entirely out of any thread on the elections.

As for McCain, he does have a following among Latinos, and many of them are far more conservative than the Dems seem to assume.

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1