flashpoint:

One aspect of Election ’08

Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (2 a.m.)

If you want to look at one aspect of Election ’08 that may have a lasting impact on Nevada politics — and play a pivotal role in 2010 — it is the amazing performance of Hispanics here. It’s not just that Latinos went for Barack Obama by more than 50 percentage points. That’s significant. But even more so is this fact, gathered from exit polls and touted by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials: The Hispanic share of the vote in 2008 was 15 percent. That is a substantial percentage and if Democrats running statewide in 2010 — Sen. Harry Reid and candidate X for governor, for example — can tap into that total, the Democrats could dominate statewide for years. If they can hold the vote, that is.

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By KDR81

11/13/08 at 8:30 a.m.

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Luckily for Democrats, Latinos probably won't realize they will be voting for the same kind of policies that kept them impoverished for so long.

After all, African Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, a party that not only championed slavery and segregation, but a party that champions the very pioneers of those two horrible blights in American history...big government.
By redferret

11/13/08 at 9:39 a.m.

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Rubbish. That was over 50 years ago and a lot has changed since then. To put it bluntly, African Americans asked the GOP, "What have you done for me lately?"
And the GOP answer is a lot of negative.
Meanwhile the Dems have championed minority rights. Additionally there aren't a whole lot of Minutemen in the Democrat Party. And before you point that ludicrous idea of big government at the dems, just look at the current administration...