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ottothewise 
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| Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 7:09 pm)
Portman is Jewish and from Ohio. He might help win Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania or New Jersey.
Rubio is Cuban, and from Florida. He might help win many states with lots of Latinos.
Which would you pick?
neither, both would be ok, or do you have a real preference based on matters other than ethnicity/religion?
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RandyVandy 
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 7:15 pm to ottothewise)
Jews are concentrated in hardcore blue states/regions, and only make up like 1% of the US population anyway.
I don't think Cubans and non-Caribbean Latinos have much affinity for each other.
To be honest I don't even really follow partisan/electoral politics that closely, so maybe I shouldn't even comment, but I think strategically a Southern/Midwestern Evangelical would be his best choice.
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NoHoTiger
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 7:20 pm to ottothewise)
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Which would you pick?
I think it will be such a great day when people actually vote for candidates based on issues that are having a major impact on this country rather than their surname or religious affiliation. FTR: I never choose a candidate based on his or her party affiliation, surname, religion or lack thereof, or what kind of pandering they do.
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athletemed
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 7:26 pm to NoHoTiger)
Rubio
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ottothewise
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 7:26 pm to NoHoTiger)
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what kind of pandering they do.
so you do you go by voting record and nothing else?
Rubio has actually got some bills passed in Florida.
Portman is just talk, at this point. Would you count a bill he wrote, but which was voted down, or would you count a bill he wrote which never got out of committee, or would you count a bill he wrote that was tabled so the Congress did not have to confess itself, making a formal position known on it?
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jamboybarry
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:28 pm to ottothewise)
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Posted by ottothewise
By your logic, Barack Hussein Obama was going after the blithering fricking retard vote in 2008
And as history so has it, that's exactly the vote that put him in office
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Jrv2damac
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:32 pm to ottothewise)
There's a lot of white people in America. I think whoever can lock in that group is a shoe in for winning an election.
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CC
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:38 pm to ottothewise)
Susana Martinez, Governor of New Mexico. She's Hispanic and a woman. There aren't enough Jews who are capable of voting GOP to worry about.
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NoHoTiger
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:43 pm to ottothewise)
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so you do you go by voting record and nothing else?
I may look at this, but it's not the only thing I consider
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Would you count a bill he wrote, etc.
I would be more concerned with what he wrote and what precipitated his writing it. If something is voted down, it doesn't mean it was a bad idea, sometimes good ideas get voted down and bad ideas passed. If writing a bill is akin to pandering to a particular group, then I take that into account
This post was edited on 7/3 at 8:44 pm
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maine82
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| re: Romney goes after Jewish vote or Cuban/Latino vote (Posted on 7/3/12 at 9:44 pm to ottothewise)
Portman's not Jewish. He's a Methodist. He would help with Ohio. And by all accounts he's a brilliant guy. May not have any recent laws to his name but was OMB Director and US Trade Representative. His main defect would be that he worked for George W. Bush but that didn't seem to stop him in 2010.
Rubio's great but the Cuban/non-Cuban Hispanic tensions do exist. He should lock down Florida though.
It's a little early for Susana Martinez. She's only been Governor of New Mexico for a year and a half. You don't want to Palinize her.
I actually think Jindal's VP stock is rising with the healthcare debate heating up. I also like Luis Fortuno out of Puerto Rico, but I suspect the Romney camp is skittish about picking someone relatively unknown after what happened with Palin in 2008. I really think it's Rubio, Portman, Jindal or Paul Ryan.
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