Rand Paul Setting His Sights On Latinos

Latino's are very conservative in many of their beliefs.

Despite what a lot of the media says, many US Latino's are against blanket amnesty program.

This is a prime voting block the GOP should be going after.

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The 37-year-old Bush is running for Texas Land Commissioner in 2014

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F da Bushes

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) turned to one of the Bush family's rising stars for some "advice" on connecting with a key voting bloc.

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According to the Politico report, Bush said the party should be "showing up" in Latino strongholds. Bush also tweeted a picture of the pair, saying how great it was to meet up.

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Lot of ramifications.
Pretty strong indicator Jeb is not running.
Paul looking to consolidate that wing of the party, before Rubio has a chance to move on it.

What kind of question is this? This is a political forum. Do you think minorities have no interest in politics?

The crazy thing is that hispanics as a group are very religious and very conservative, but promise them money and they just blindly vote democrat.

The only people who hate abortion and gay marriage more than old white people are hispanics. It's just shocking how people's vote can be bought.

While true, a lot of AAs still carry around the slavery baggage and have a grudge against conservative white people. They have other reasons besides government bribery.

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Could someone like Rand Paul have any real pull with minorities

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I think minorities will listen to anybody who makes a sincere effort to reach out to them the way Paul has been doing.

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but let's face it, Republicans aren't pulling down much of the black vote, which probably has next to nothing to do with their actual politics

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This is where you lose me.

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Blacks changed philosophies in the early 20th century. From reconstruction to 1920s, Blacks admired people like booker T. Washington, then they started believing in the words of Dubois.

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There was something else that happened in the mid-60's that affected both Blacks and southern Whites.

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The crazy thing is that hispanics as a group are very religious and very conservative, but promise them money and they just blindly vote democrat.

The only people who hate abortion and gay marriage more than old white people are hispanics. It's just shocking how people's vote can be bought.

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Latinos’ views of same-sex marriage have changed dramatically in recent years. In 2012 for the first time, more Latinos said they favored same-sex marriage than opposed it (52% versus 34%) according to a Pew Hispanic Center survey. This is a reversal from six years earlier, when one-third (31%) of Latinos favored same-sex marriage and more than half (56%) opposed it. This shift in views tracks with that of the general public, whose opinions on same-sex marriage have also changed in recent years.

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It really old people in general who oppose same-sex marriage.

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Latinos support a woman's right to make decisions.
74% of Latino registered voters agree that a woman has a right to make her own personal, private decisions about abortion without politicians interfering.

Latinos don't think we should judge other women's decisions.
73% of Latino registered voters agree that we should not judge someone who feels they are not ready to be a parent. 57% strongly agrees with this statement.

Latinos are supportive of close friends and family members choosing abortion.
67% of Latino voters say they would give support to a close friend or family member who had an abortion. 43% say they would provide a lot of support. Only 23% says they would not feel comfortable offering support.

Latinos don't think money should determine access to abortion.
61% agree that the amount of money a woman has or does not have should not determine whether she could have an abortion when she needs one.

Latinos are willing to disagree with church leaders.
68% agree with the statement “even though church leaders take a position against abortion, when it comes to the law, I believe it should remain legal.”

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Hispanics are also sharply divided by religion on the issue of abortion. Less than half (47%) of Hispanic Catholics say abortion should be legal in all or most cases; a majority (52%) say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. Mainline Protestants have a similar profile to Catholics on this issue. Evangelical Protestants have the most conservative footprint of any religious group on this issue, with nearly three-quarters (74%) saying abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. By contrast, nearly 7-in-10 (69%) religiously unaffiliated Hispanics say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

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Hispanic and African-Americans liked using both of the phrases "pro-life" and "pro-choice" to describe themselves. Seventy-one percent of black Americans and 77 percent of Hispanics said that "pro-life" describes them very well, but at the same time 75 percent of black Americans and 72 percent of Hispanics said the same of the phrase "pro-choice."

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I would take all abortion polls with salt. All of them seem to give you different results depending on how you ask the question. Abortion isn't the reason that the majority of Hispanics are starting to tilt towards democrats.



Hispanics don't vote Republican because they don't believe you actually care about them. A lot of people tend to vote more on emotion than facts. George Bush actually had a majority of the Hispanic Vote when he ran for president and a relative high percentage of the African American vote.

George Bush actually championed comprehensive immigration reform. The longer Republicans drag their feet on immigration reform the more its going to hurt them. Taking that issue alone off the table would greatly change elections. This issue is like a rope hanging around Republican Presidential Candidates necks.

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At this very early stage in the 2014 election cycle, Hispanic likely voters report preferring Democratic congressional candidates to Republican congressional candidates by a 2-to-1 ratio (58% vs. 28%). Among likely Hispanic voters, a majority (54%) say they would be less likely to support a candidate who opposes immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants who are currently living in the country illegally. One-in-four (25%) say they would be more likely to vote for such a candidate, and 19% report that the candidate’s views on immigration would make no difference in their vote.

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I give Rand Paul a gold star for effort. I don't think their has been a republican who has tried harder to reach out to minorities in the last decade. That actually includes minority politicians in the Republican Party.