Posted by: lootekukur February 6, 2008
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Mav,
hahaha....I am already excited about my prospect as a minority male for politics in the US.
If Obama manages to win the candidacy and from thereon the presidency, it will only mean people like you and I can give a shot at it, if we feel the urge LOL!
I know the conservatives will try all the tricks in the trade to harrass the young sentaor in the presidential debate(if he wins the candidacy that is) but I am sure he will have all his homework done by then and since we all witnessed how they amassed and attacked poor Kerry, it must have come to Obama as a learning experience from the observation of his peer getting bashed LOL!
I hope Obama has or will have better plans for coming up against doubts on his youth and inexperience or against any other sorts of negative feel against his plans and policies.
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Geico,
The overwhelming support of Hispanics and Latinos for Clinton in California had me in thinking mode for quite a while. Obama's policy on illegal immigrants (which are mostly hispanics) sounds liberal and more lucrative for them than the rather strict-er or dare I say more of a conservative type take of Clinton on the same issue. But why was Obama not able to garner much support from them?
It could well be due to the fact that Obama is emphasizing too much on 'unity' and 'change' and not really going through individual race to address their own major/serious issues -- one thing that he and his campaign should give a serious thought on before the next round of primaries. On the other hand, it's important to understand the hispanic culture, their family structure and values to understand their sentiments and hence their take on this democratic presidential candidacy or their impact on the November's general election for that matter.
As a voting block, in general, Hispanics are faith and family-based. They have conservative to moderate values and they are concerned with economic conditions that affect income; therefore, neither republicans nor democratics can put the Hispanic vote in their respective banks as a safe bet. This is more or less true with Asian American voters as well. The Latin American history is quite complicated: they strongly believe in paternal/maternal figures--in this case it would mean the Clintons. Too much of change is not in their comfort zone and hence the bottom-up working message from Obama doesn't appeal to most of them. However, this would apply mostly to older generations. Besides, women, by their nature, tend to protect each other and there is a strong sense of fraternity of women in Hispanic culture because of the oppression they have been going through in the patriarchal society. So I would think, middle-aged and older Hispanics and Hispanic women will be, for the most part, for Clinton. Their support for her only accentuates because of the Clinton administration's record with Hispanics since they already have a history together (during Bill's occupancy of the Oval Office) and it's is not risk based as it is with the newly bred Obama. However, younger generations raised in the USA and the ones who have been able to get higher education have reacted and will react differently.
Just my 2 cents and please feel free to disagree.
hahaha....I am already excited about my prospect as a minority male for politics in the US.
If Obama manages to win the candidacy and from thereon the presidency, it will only mean people like you and I can give a shot at it, if we feel the urge LOL!I know the conservatives will try all the tricks in the trade to harrass the young sentaor in the presidential debate(if he wins the candidacy that is) but I am sure he will have all his homework done by then and since we all witnessed how they amassed and attacked poor Kerry, it must have come to Obama as a learning experience from the observation of his peer getting bashed LOL!
I hope Obama has or will have better plans for coming up against doubts on his youth and inexperience or against any other sorts of negative feel against his plans and policies.
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Geico,
The overwhelming support of Hispanics and Latinos for Clinton in California had me in thinking mode for quite a while. Obama's policy on illegal immigrants (which are mostly hispanics) sounds liberal and more lucrative for them than the rather strict-er or dare I say more of a conservative type take of Clinton on the same issue. But why was Obama not able to garner much support from them?
It could well be due to the fact that Obama is emphasizing too much on 'unity' and 'change' and not really going through individual race to address their own major/serious issues -- one thing that he and his campaign should give a serious thought on before the next round of primaries. On the other hand, it's important to understand the hispanic culture, their family structure and values to understand their sentiments and hence their take on this democratic presidential candidacy or their impact on the November's general election for that matter.
As a voting block, in general, Hispanics are faith and family-based. They have conservative to moderate values and they are concerned with economic conditions that affect income; therefore, neither republicans nor democratics can put the Hispanic vote in their respective banks as a safe bet. This is more or less true with Asian American voters as well. The Latin American history is quite complicated: they strongly believe in paternal/maternal figures--in this case it would mean the Clintons. Too much of change is not in their comfort zone and hence the bottom-up working message from Obama doesn't appeal to most of them. However, this would apply mostly to older generations. Besides, women, by their nature, tend to protect each other and there is a strong sense of fraternity of women in Hispanic culture because of the oppression they have been going through in the patriarchal society. So I would think, middle-aged and older Hispanics and Hispanic women will be, for the most part, for Clinton. Their support for her only accentuates because of the Clinton administration's record with Hispanics since they already have a history together (during Bill's occupancy of the Oval Office) and it's is not risk based as it is with the newly bred Obama. However, younger generations raised in the USA and the ones who have been able to get higher education have reacted and will react differently.
Just my 2 cents and please feel free to disagree.
Last edited: 07-Feb-08 11:53 AM