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Monday, June 25, 2012

2012 Full Audio of Mitt Romney's Statement on the Supreme Court's Immigration Ruling

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:58 PM

You can find a full audio recording of Romney's immigration statement over here.

The New York Times has more information on the crashing silence coming from Romney's campaign. The reason he's afraid to say anything is that a Romney win this November would have to go through Florida, and he can't win Florida without some larger share of the Latino vote than he currently has. (According to the 2010 Census, Florida is 22.5% Latino.) But Romney can't come across as soft on immigration or else small numbers of Republicans everywhere will abandon him. So he's saying nothing and hoping that the issue will just go away. We'll see how that works out for him.

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This is apples and oranges.
Florida's Latino population is dominated by Cubans and Puerto Ricans. Any Cuban that touches US soil is given amnesty, and Puerto Ricans are US citizens.
Immigration is a greater concern to immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and it's Mexican-Americans that dominate Latino populations in the Southwest.
A statement from Romney regarding immigration isn't necessarily going to cost him votes in the Latino community in Florida, though it would cost him elsewhere.

Posted by TJ on June 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM

@1 Thank you.

Romney obviously has a major problem with the overall Latino vote, but a Cuban in Miami is not going to have the same frame of reference as, say, a Mexican in Maricopa County.

Posted by Hernandez

on June 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM

@1, you obviously forgot that this is Slog. Common sense has no place here.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 25, 2012 at 4:32 PM

@1, your observation also explains why choosing Rubio as his VP would be stupid for both Romney and Rubio. Stupid for Romney because Rubio is Cuban and won't help Romney with the Hispanic vote. Stupid for Rubio because he'd be running mate to a candidate lies constantly, shamelessly.

Posted by Machiavelli was framed on June 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM