A Feynman diagram of an encounter between a Romney and an anti-Romney. The resulting collision annihilates both, leaving behind a single electron and a $20 bill.
(via isomorphismes)
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY.
He really said this.
At a candidates’ forum.
Hosted by Univision.
Any wonder why he’s reportedly polling at 26% to the President’s 68% among registered Latino voters?
(via The Wall Street Journal)
— inothernews (via election)
Latin@s are not single issue voters so while this may seem silly to many of you (and I don’t buy his claim that he won’t deport anyone), the current president has been rounding up people around the country and deporting them in record numbers.
1,000,000+ deportations later and a presidential election year, President Obama has only curbed his deportations.
Yes self-deportation sounds ridiculous but the Democrat in office right now has literally been one of the worst presidents for Latin@s on this front. WITHOUT A DOUBT. Grotesque actions > Silly words right now.
Maybe I’m unusual from amongst the 53% who pay income tax. But I suspect I’m not all that unusual. I’d be willing to bet that there are a fair number of people, like me, who don’t make $200,000/year and who noticed that Paul Ryan’s plan for our economy would actually raise our taxes while also cutting a bunch of programs we currently don’t mind supporting with the money we pay: So, again, since Romney is convinced that I’m a member of the 53% of the country who aren’t shiftless layabouts and am thus worth talking to, what is it exactly that he thinks is going to sway me?”
Yachts?
If you caught the season premiere of Saturday Night Live (hello, new Obama!), you may have noticed their Weekend Update treatment of the presidential campaigns’ courting of Latin@ voters.
The larger story, of course, can be seen in the poll numbers: Obama currently leads the coveted demographic 66% to 29%, reminiscent of his 67% to 31% lead with Hispanic voters over John McCain in 2008.
Romney is fighting back by focusing on economic issues as Obama’s failure of this audience’s communities, as the Latin@ unemployment rate continues to hover a couple percentage points higher than the national average. In that theme, the “Romney campaign has run Spanish-language television ads targeting Hispanics, including one called ‘No podemos mas’ — translated to ‘We no longer can’ — that contrasts with Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, ‘Yes, we can.’”
It’s immigration issues where matters get a little stickier. As the LA Times commented:
Clearly, Latinos don’t cast their votes based solely on whether a candidate supports comprehensive immigration reform or stricter enforcement. The economy, education, public safety are the top issues, just as they are for all voters. But Latinos don’t appreciate candidates who demonize immigrants either.
And while Romney himself may usually be a little too silver-tongued to outright demonize immigrants, he does campaign with people who do — notably Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who said that an electric fence should be built along the southern border to keep immigrants out because “we do this with livestock all the time.”
On that cheery note, for more background on this topic, read On the Issues’ report on Romney’s immigration policy here and view their report on Obama on this issue here.
— Bonnie
P.S. What did you think of SNL’s coverage? And do you think Romney will be able to successfully court the Latin@ vote?
One day later and post-Romney’s quip about being Mexican, the answer is no unless he changes his platform. I mean there’s plenty to criticize about President Obama’s TERRIBLE record with Latin@ voters. By the way, is there a group of individuals that Mitt Romney has not insulted?
President Barack Obama, according to an aide, talking about how he and “his team were going to cut [Romney] off and block [Romney] at every turn.” [NY Times]
A+ Mr. President.
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From kohenari,
Kevin Williamson’s latest piece for the National Review is staggering.
Buried underneath all the misogyny and personal insecurity, Williamson’s take-away point is that Mitt Romney is successful, in both the money- and baby-making departments. Given all of his success, Williamson can’t understand why people — and women especially — don’t want Romney to govern them.
Compare Romney — with his lustrous hair, his fancy horses, his car elevator, and his numerous progeny — to Barack Obama and the choice is obvious:
Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.
My only wish is that Williamson had titled this piece, “Here’s a thing that a million people will make fun of but they’ll all click on it and we’ll make money by putting a bunch of ads all over the page” because that’s pretty much what’s going on here. The only problem with my idea is that this is how so much of Williamson’s writing works that nine out of ten pieces would have the same title.
From a biological perspective, I love the reference to Game of Thrones.
