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Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman
are out for a stroll in town one day…
As they walk, they come across a sign:
"Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world."
"I am entering!" said Snow White.
After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, "Well, how'd you do?
" First Place !," said Snow White.
They continue walking and they see a sign:
"Contest for the strongest man in the world."
"I'm entering," says Superman.
After half an hour, he returns and they ask him, "How did you make out?
" First Place ," answers Superman. "Did you ever doubt?"
They continue walking when they see a sign:
"Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?"
"I'm entering," says Pinocchio.
After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.
"What happened?" they asked.
"Who the heck is Barack Obama?" asked Pinocchio.
A. Me neither!
Mas! Mas!
On tone deafnees or rather complete deafness to Cuban Amercian interests, the Obama Administration or Rush Limbaugh?
Obama is taking a bit of risky path in trying to improve relations with Cuba, but not every Cuban American is lock in step with the usual US Administration policy of ignoring or punishing Cuba.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090713/sc...
Sorry board monitors but I could not resist.............
Florida Congressional Representatives as much as most Southwestern US Congressional Representatives should at least have some knowledge of Spanish, or understand some Spanish. For Democrats, If they can get the Cuban Americans to at least support the Democrat agenda, it turns Florida from a light red to a light blue state.
It helps that the Republicans have pretty much has turned the Latino vote to Dems for the next two elections at least.
Don't underestimate the Spanish Media, whether Univision, Telemundo, etc.
Well, it's back. According to CBS 5 in San Francisco, California Republicans and their allies are gathering for a new and improved Prop. 187. And they're apparently using the Sotomayor nomination as a means to get the wingnuts into a frenzy of fear.
Jesus H. Christ, would somebody please save Californians from themselves? These people have gone completely off the edge. Whatever little self-respect they had left after Prop. 8 is quickly evaporating before our very eyes. What a pathetic, reactionary state the place has become.
So, there are still plenty of right-wing nuts ready, willing, and able to vote for such a proposition. For sure, the demographic shift has made it tougher. But they can still manipulate turnout. If they put the measure on the ballot during a primary election, they might bring out enough Republicans to pass it. After all, the conservatives showed up in force to defeat all of Arnold's tax measures.
have the party apparatus to raise the money for the general election.
California had at one time a pretty strong Republican Party. However
Prop 187, helped alienate a group that the Republicans needed to grow
or still have power: Hispanics. Now, they made California a pretty
much a Democratic Party stronghold. The Californian Republican Party
hasn't been the same since Pete Wilson left office ten years ago. It
basically carve out its fiefdoms around Bakersfield, and parts of
Orange County, but it cannot contest the state as a hold.
Schwarzenegger is in someways much above the rank and file of
statewide Republican Poltiics
California is becoming much how Oregon and Washington State are set
up, very liberal urban areas, and very conservative rural areas. The
difference in the past few years is that the Suburban areas are
trending to the Democrats, just look at the last two elections. The
Republicans almost lost one of the most stalwart districts that Duke
Cunningham held before he pled guilty and sentence to prison.
The Californian Republican Party has to do two things to regain
power, go more to the middle, and make big amends to the Latino
Community, they are the future of the Republican Party. If they don't
embrace Latinos, they will be second fiddle for years to come.
California is going to get more Latino Congressional districts after
2010 that were denied to them after the 2000 census. The Republicans
will probably win some of them one of these days, but not in the near
future.
Barbara Boxer is as liberal as they come and she has been elected to the Senate three times. She won re-election in 2004 by 20 points (58% to 38% for Republican Bill Jones). California can't be all that conservative if Barbara Boxer can win re-election by 20 points. And both of California's U.S. senators are Jewish women.
You can't compare today's California to the California of 1960. Orange County and the Central Valley may be conservative but the coastal urban areas are predominately liberal.
The majority of whites voted AGAINST Prop. 8. Only 53% of Hispanics voted FOR Prop. 8. African-Americans, who came out in huge numbers for Obama, voted 70% FOR Prop. 8. More work as to be done in those communities for Prop. 8 to be overturned. The NO on 8 campaign was poorly managed. The YES on 8 campaign received at least $30 million from the Mormons and at least another $4 million from Catholic organizations like the Knights of Columbus.
Five of Arnold's six tax measures were defeated. Prop. 1F, the one that prohibits pay raises for state elected officials in deficit years, passed. The five that were defeated went down in just about every county in the state in what amounted to an anti-politician vote.
The amendment to revise the Three Strike Law would have passed in 2004 if Schwarzenegger hadn't gone on TV in the final days before the vote to warn people that it would "result in the release of 26,000 murderers and rapists."
California's demographics will keep it trending Democratic and the younger Hispanics are much more liberal on cultural issues than their parents. I wouldn't want to be a Republican running in a statewide election in California.