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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Yup, just as I thought. Big convoluted over-complicated answers where "one can vote, the other can not" would suffice.
Trump's comments only seems to have alienated illegals and a certain % of actual latino voters, obviously not all of whom are Mexican. Yet here in this thread and in untold other threads and forums across the universe people are posting such succinct reactions such as "Wow, how did that happen?" and "I did not see that coming" with regard to Trump's Latino numbers.
People are confused. I wanted a light indication of just how many here might be. Now I have it. :D
I did not need nor ask for huge splainations on Latino 101.
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The problem is that it isn't as simple as "one can vote, the other can not." The last two presidential elections the republicans have failed to engage Latino voters and they have lost them both. Why they lost is more complex than just not winning the Latino vote, but that is a big part of it. Latinos make up the fastest growing segment of the voters in this country. If you can convince them to vote for you will have a hard time winning.
What we know is that Trump is winning the polls of registered republicans likely to vote in the republican primaries. There are likely some Latino voters in that block, but there is no real way of knowing how much damage he has done to himself with other Latino voters until we get a general poll of all likely voters or until he wins the nomination.
You asked a complex question and want a simple answer that is simply not, with the information we have right now, possible to give.