Some Setbacks Aside, Latinos Reached Milestones in Midterm Races

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/us...html?src=twrhp

I would just like to point out that all information on the latino voter turn out and for who they voted has not been completed yet and different sources put different figures out there, the exact figure will not exactly known until all the information is compiled district by district, but regardless, there is good information that without the latino vote we could have also lost the house and that more latino candidates where placed in the house then ever before, even if they were republican, all of this I hope will matter when issues come up to be voted which are seen by many as anti-immigrant.

sad to say it, but this proves nothing more than the well known tendency for Latino's to vote based on name and not values.

well... as far as the latino members elected, however, what about the latino member that did not even get the majority of latino votes but still won? This article gives just such an example where a latino candidate got the minority of latino votes but won due to the large number of white votes in his favor.

Marco Rubio won because of the cuban-american vote who are very strongly republican unlike the general latino population, they have always voted for republican candidates and its very very hard to make them switch, furthermore, there is no such thing as an undocumented cuban, they are covered under the wet foot dry land act kennedy created, which means a larger legal and potentially USC status population. Despite all of this, Rubio lost Broward which is one of the largest hispanic counties (but not that heavily cuban) in the state and he did not win by a landslide in Miami-Dade County which is where the cuban community is heaviest (44.7% with meek 29.8% and Crist 24.7%), he won many of the other states that have voted republican all the time except he got a larger portion of the vote.

I don't know, all things considered, the latino population did not seem to vote based on name solely, at least on those two elections and I followed the Rubio election intently since I reside in FL. There was even a latino elected out of office due to his support of stronger immigration regulations.

I just mean, hopefully the latino members in congress that did make it under the republican name tag are more sympathetic when it comes to vote on immigration issues if the republicans don't decide to do the whole filibustering game during the lame duck session as well and instead legitimately vote on with the best interest of the people in mind.

dude, have you seen Rubio speak, the fact that he did not win broward and it was not such a huge landslide in Miami should be proof enough that the latino were not voting based on the name of the candidate. The guy is a gifted public speaker, the only thing wrong with him was his anti-immigration stance.