Hispanics Win 3 Key Races for GOP and Lend Clout to Both Parties

I recently read an email sent out to subscribers from the National Council of La Raza It talked a bit about the election and completely absent from the discussion in the email was the fact the Latinos won major elections in some states. Susana Martinez is elected as the first Latina Gov and there's no mention? After reading the email I could only conclude that because these candidates were Republicans, NCLR chose not celebrate their wins. That is quite disturbing to me. It's quite obvious that NCLR prefers the Democratic agenda, but to blackout these wins and assume that all of your followers will support all of YOUR candidates should be insulting to those who vote and are free to make their own choices.

Torregosa should be complimented on writing the article that the rest of the media has been completly ignoring. Namely, that GOP Hspanic candidates won at the state and federal level this election cycle. It would be foolish, however, to buy into the premise that Hspanic voters were making these selections solely based on political philosphy. "Nationalistic/Cultural" pride often dictates these choices.

I am puzzled by the writer's interchangeable use of the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic." Is there a difference? Though the writer refers to most Republicans as "Hispanic," and most Democrats seem "Latino," she later reverses the terms, but seemingly based on their opinions of issues. I always thought the terms referred to specific geographic areas of a person's origins. Perhaps this now needs to be clarified. Many people have objected to the word "Hispanic," which was the source of an often-used epithet for people of a certain heritage.

My union takes my money and supports policies that most of my fellow employees are not in agreement with. They asked us to go to Tea Party rallies and pretend to be crazy tea party supporters. I saw one of those crazy misbehaving people get into a car with a Union sticker. Unfortunately, the one I belong to. We were supposed to act like racists and Neo Nazi's. The Democrats act like they are holier than thou, but create regulations that hobble our industry and then give drilling rights to foreign corporation in our waters and then try to overtax ours. Our manufacturing goes to foreign countries with no care for the environment, do you really think that the poisons stay in China, India and Mexico? We need reasonable regulations, developed by careful study, not environmentalists and bureaucrats. We need reasonable taxes on American corporations and individuals. Excessive Taxes on corportations come straight out of the pockets of consumers. That means that the American people are still paying those taxes, just second hand. Why are all of the financial centers moved outside of the country? Is our personal information safe in the hands of foreign countries, which might become our enemy tomorrow? God Bless America, and to all of you Veterans, in time zones that have already gone to 11/06, Thank you for your service.

The Democrats started supporting abortion thinking that most abortions would be of black children. They think all minorities are unable to think or suceed on their own. As a minority woman, I find this both untrue and insulting. I am a union member, and since I believe that I can suceed by my own effort, my union bosses dislike me. If you work hard and believe in yourself and take every opportunity that you are offered, you can succeed. I know of families that managed to buy homes and pay for them with two parents working 3 or more minimum wage jobs and the kids went to college. Sometimes you have to move. Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities. One of my daughters friends came here speaking no english in sixth grade. Her sister was 2 years older. Two years later, they are at the top of their classes. Both spoke English with almost no accent. Both of them worked in their parent's store. They went to school, took piano lessons, helped mamma and pappa at the store, did homework until midnight and were up at 0600 finishing. They graduated Valedictorians in their 'failing' school. They had very high Sat Scores and both recieved full scholarships that were based on acheivement, not race. They both have graduated form universities with honors and one is a doctor, the other a science professor. Because they worked hard and wanted to be Americans. This inspite of jeers by both adults and peers for being too white. What does not black enough or not latino enough mean? I have recieved more predjudice from liberals and persons of my own race than I have from any conservative. I am proud of Mr. Rubio, and hope he sticks to his conservative principals. If he proves, after at least 8 years of service that he is fit and qualified to be President, I will vote for him. I do not like either of them, but Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton were more qualified than Barrack Obama. I would vote for Thomas Sowell if he were to run for President. We need secure borders, we need to make prisoners and welfare recipients pick fruit and we need to make a better way for Immigrants to come here legally. We also need to bring back the voting booth in all states and require id. In my state, a republican has a pink inner envelope on his mail ballot and a democrat has a blue one. The 'privacy envelope has numerous holes in it making it possible to see what party the voter belongs too. What is to keep an unscrupulous poll worker from either party from throwing out the ballots from people he doesn't agree with?

This author's theories are convoluted and do not take many factors into account. As a Floridian, I live in a state where all three Senate candidates were utterly disgraceful choices and Rubio's youth and looks made him more appealing than the others. I didn't vote for him and I am Hispanic. As for the other races, the author oversimplifies and most Latinos have the sense to know that the GOP is never on our side and exploits us to further a very racist agenda. As for those in New Mexico who had the sanity lapse to elect a female, Hispanic Republican, they can just look next door at Arizona to see what the GOP thinks of Hispanics.

Maybe its time to quit stereotyping all Latino's as poor and ignorant and dependent upon unions,special interests and government grants for their education and handouts. THats what makes the difference between many of the foreign born that voted for REID, and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc generation Hispanics, who may or may not speak spanish, but are proud and think of themselves as AMERICANS First. In New Mexico, they even THINK for themselves and must have split their votes between Martinez for Governor, and for the anglo Democrat Heinrich incumbant that ran aganst a very popular Hispanic, in his district. The one size fits all mentality of the two parties, is going to be their downfall. The immigrants and Latino's in the unions and working in Vegas would have been a real big boost to REID, where the historic or 2nd generation American Hispanic or Latino, is a very small minority. Personally, besides all of the above candidates standing for traditional conservative values (including enforcement of existing immigration law and respect for law), I think they all were as articulate, convincing, qualified and earnest in wanting to preserve or restore sanity, as any politician I have witnessed in many long years. Maybe just growing up in America, with hard working, non government handout parents, makes all the difference in ones priorities. Regardless of ones race, sex or ethnicity, and the media show start doing away with stereotypical qualifiers and identifiers when writng, discussing and labeling anyone who isnt anglo. Now that would be progress. Go Martinez,Sandoval and Rubio! Good Job, well done and Good Luck!

Latinos should get involve in the political process. Those who ran under the Republican banner are independent thinkers and self-achievers. Latinos should realize that the Democrat party has done little for them and just rely on them for their votes. Calling Marco Rubio "the Cuban Obama" is an insult to Rubio. Mr. Rubio has worked hard to get where he is. He hasn't been the recipient of hand-outs as Obama or the alias he used has. Rubio has conservative principles and is not an ideologue. Other Latinos should be proud of Mr. Rubio.

Unions may not be perfect but if we go back to pre union days we will be all working in sweat shops with no rights as an employee. Unions helped the workers. I don't want to return to minimum wage jobs. the problem is America looks good to immigrants because of the fiber and value system, if we lose our rights we become another third world country. It's greed on the part of business to make more and more that takes our jobs out of country, not the unions. The unions are being scapgoated. If we start settling for mediocre then we become what all comes here for

Wonderful. Latinos on the border were always hard working and had businesses. Its only natural they vote conservative.