La Campaña Electoral de los EEUU — An Obama Radio Ad in Español
By Charles Lemos on July 28, 2008 at 10:00 PM in Barack Obama, Hispanic vote, John McCain
The Obama campaign is now running radio ads in Spanish in at least four states: Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Florida as it looks to sustain Obama’s rather substantial lead among Hispanics.
Here’s the Obama’s radio ad in Spanish. Here’s the transcript in English:
Some people have power and connections.
But most of us have to make our own way through life.
This is true even for the man who could become the next President … Barack Obama.
He grew up without a father – raised by his mother with the support of his grandparents.
Obama never forgot his roots ….
He worked with churches to help families get job training and after-school care for their children.
In the State Senate, he passed a law that helped reduce the welfare roles by over 80% by helping families to secure jobs.
And despite the political pressure, Obama has stood with us for immigration reform and spoke out for our veterans.
It’s time we had a President who understands we all deserve a chance to make our own way.
Last week, the Pew Hispanic Center survey found that among Hispanics Obama led McCain by more than a two to one margin with 66% to McCain’s 23%. It’s a surprising turnaround for Obama who fared poorly among Hispanics during the primaries. More from the Dallas Morning News.
Barack Obama has picked up support from nearly all the Hispanic voters who voted for rival Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, giving him a nearly three-to-one lead over Republican John McCain among Hispanics, a poll released Thursday shows.
The Pew Hispanic Center survey found Obama with 66 percent of the Hispanic vote to McCain’s 23 percent.
The results represent a “sharp reversal” in Obama’s fortunes from the primaries, when he lost the Latino vote to Clinton by nearly two-to-one, prompting speculation that Hispanics were leery of voting for a black candidate, said Susan Minushkin, the center’s deputy director.
Instead, the survey found that three times as many respondents said that being black would help Obama with Latino voters. A majority – 53 percent – said his race would make no difference to Latino voters.
More than 76 percent of Hispanics who said they voted for Clinton now say they’re leaning toward voting for Obama, while just 8 percent said they were leaning toward McCain.
The poll by the nonpartisan research organization is based on a telephone survey of 2,015 Hispanics, 892 of whom were registered voters. Interviews in either English or Spanish were conducted June 9 through July 13. The survey carries a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
The poll comes as both campaigns seek to woo Hispanic voters. McCain has been advertising for six weeks on Spanish radio in Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, four battleground states with sizeable Hispanic populations. Obama’s campaign Wednesday unveiled its first Spanish-language ad in Florida.
Both candidates also have appeared before Hispanic groups to pledge support for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But McCain has faced a steep climb: Critics have accused him of softening his support for his own immigration legislation during the GOP primaries, when his support for immigration reform threatened to derail his candidacy.
The poll suggests that the GOP brand is sinking with Latinos, even as it suggests that immigration isn’t a driving factor for the Hispanic electorate.
Perhaps most troubling for the GOP, the center said it found that since 2006 Latino voters have moved “sharply” into the Democratic column, “reversing a pro-GOP tide that had been evident among Latinos earlier in the decade.”
“More than half all Latino voters say that Obama is better for Hispanics,” Minushkin said.
According to the poll, 65 percent of Latino registered voters now say they identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, compared with 26 percent who identify or lean toward the Republican Party.
The center said the shift “appears driven in part by an overall dissatisfaction with the state of the country – 70 percent of Latino registered voters say the country is going in the wrong direction.”
According to the poll, top issues were education, the cost of living, jobs and health care. Fewer Hispanics rated crime, the war in Iraq or immigration as priorities.
My sense is that it is economic issues that is driving the Hispanic vote. There is even a chance that McCain may have to defend Arizona which has the nation’s fastest growing Hispanic population averaging 12% over the past decade. Hispanics now constitute about a fifth of Arizonans. The question is how many are citizens and how many vote.
From my blog, By The Fault.
by Ronald Scott
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