Hispanic Population, Rising Faster Than Anticipated, A 'Huge Weapon' For Obama

[quadzilla456]

WASHINGTON -- The biggest political story over the past week didn't involve a bus tour, sordid tweets sent from a congressman's account or even the posturing over whether to raise the nation's debt ceiling.

Instead, it was the no-thrills release of a 16-page report by the Census bureau, which underscored a massive paradigm shift in how politics is conducted.

On May 26, the Census released what an official at the bureau described as "the latest, most up to date data on the Hispanic population in the United States." The numbers, culled from its 2010 survey, tell a remarkable -- albeit anticipated -- story: The Hispanic population is growing at a rate much faster than any other demographic.

"The new census data affirms that one of the great stories of the 21st century is the changing majority of America from a majority white country to a majority minority country," said Simon Rosenberg, president and founder of NDN, a Democratic-leaning think tank that has focused heavily on Hispanic issues. "From a national political standpoint it’s a huge development."

Currently, 50.5 million Hispanics live in the United States (roughly 16 percent of its 308.7 million population), a significant increase from the 35.3 million Hispanics in the country in 2000. The 15.2 million difference accounts for more than half of U.S. population growth during that same time period.

And in some areas of the country, that ratio is even more pronounced.

In the South, for instance, the Hispanic population grew by 57 percent between 2000 and 2010, while overall population growth in the region during that same time period was only 14 percent. In the Midwest, the Hispanic population grew by 49 percent, more than 12 times the population growth of all other groups during that period. Hispanics doubled or more in population size in 912 of the United States' 3,143 counties. Only six of those counties showed negative percent change in the Hispanic population.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/hispanic-population-rising-faster-than-anticipated_n_869209.html

[quadzilla456]

I like how they present this story, or rather ROSENBERG does. Who is Jewish by the way, but that's just a coincidence.

Let's see, from 2000 to 2011 the Hispanic population increased by about 15 million in the USA. Since Reagan gave amnesty to about 2 million illegal Hispanic immigrants in the 80s an additional 20 million illegals entered the USA and were "allowed" to stay. In fact in case some of you don't know the Federal government had the gall to sue Arizona for trying to rectify this situation, thus playing their card and showing the whole world that there loyalty does not lie with the majority (which they would prefer to be the minority). ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!!

Anyways, how many of those counted resulted from illegals coming in? Once an illegal has a baby in USA the child becomes a citizen.

Amazing! 

[MCWAY]

The problem for Obama, however, is that (unlike black people) Hispanics don't vote lockstep for Democrats, as was the case in 2004.

Sure, the illegals and their kids who get backdoor amnesty will go Obama. But, those who came here legally and those born here who worked hard for what they have aren't going to stand by and let Obama rape them of their hard-earned money and sabotage their business.

Many of them will go GOP, and if it's to the tune of 40% (as it was for Bush in '04), that's BAD news for Mr. Hope-and-Change.

[MM2K]

The other thing is that Obama will not get the kind of Hispanic vote he got in 2008, mainly because of him not passing immigration reform when he had a 60 vote super majority in the Senate. His approval rating amoung Hispanics is only 50%.

[dario73]

This is BS. First of all, many of those are illegals who can't vote anyway or too young to vote. Secondly, it is 50-50 that a Hispanic will vote Democrat. Many Hispanics will vote Republican because many of them do not see Democrats as having legislations that help small businesses and they only talk the talk when it comes to immigration reform.