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November 17, 2004
Kerry | Kerry Campaign Slammed On Hispanic Outreach

The Associated Press reports that Simon Rosenberg, founder and president of the centrist New Democrat Network says, “John Kerry did not compete adequately for Hispanic votes, period. If we don’t reverse the gains that President Bush made, we can forget our hope of being a majority party again.”

Rosenberg also complained that “the Kerry campaign and the DNC lacked a national strategy for Hispanics and did not spend enough money on advertising or enough time campaigning in Hispanic communities and did not employ enough people on the get-out-the-vote effort.”

From California Yankee.



Posted by Dan Spencer at November 17, 2004 10:45 PM | TrackBack
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If you go to their site and look at one of their polls done in FL and (IIRC) NV, the word “immigration” is mysteriously absent. Instead, the #1 interest was in jobs.

Kerry had it backwards. He said he’d do something about Hispanic unemployment. But, in the same speech he said he supported a general amnesty for illegal workers.

If, instead, he had supported AZ’s Prop. 200 and said he’d reduce illegal immigration and opposed Bush’s “guest worker” plan, he probably could have picked up millions more votes from all Americans and won the election.

Posted by: Lonewacko [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 18, 2004 03:59 AM

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