It wasn't too long ago that Latinos played down the immigration issue. A quick search for poll results from 12 or so months ago will show that Latinos concurred that immigration was fourth or fifth on a scale of importance. Education, jobs and healthcare were consistently the top three concerns.
Now, 12 months later, the media bells have been tolling for the Republican Party that, if you are to believe the reports, is in the desperate throws of its demise. And Latinos are said to be a key factor in the GOP fall from eminence.
The most recent polls, according to the pollsters and the people who interpret the results, indicate that Latinos are running from the Republican Party. And the reason most frequently given is immigration.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a paradox, but at the very least it's contradictory and strange. Latinos are reputed to be rejecting the GOP because of the conservative's adamant and vocal anti-undocumented immigrant stance. And that rejection, if we are to filter it through last year's polls, is fourth or fifth on a scale of issues importance. So it isn't really important, but it is a deal breaker.
It doesn't make sense if you try to analyze the contradiction in a purely academic and detached sense. But on the street level, where polls are lived rather than analyzed, the incongruity makes sense. READ FULL STORY
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