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Annals of Headshaking Punditry

| @jpodhoretz 11.02.2010 - 9:26 AM

Eugene Robinson, the liberal columnist for the Washington Post, on MSNBC this morning: “Can Marco Rubio appeal to Hispanics?” Marco Rubio, the overwhelming favorite to win the Florida Senate race, is the child of two Cuban refugees. Apparently Americans of Cuban descent are not Hispanics, in Robinson’s eyes, because they tend to vote Republican.

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  1. valleyforgepa says:
    November 3, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    I'm no fan of Robinson's but there are a lot of different Hispanics – Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Guatamalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Dominicans, Haitians, Mexicans from a dozen different regions, South Americans, even a few old world Hispanics. They are no more monolithic in culture, economic status, or politics than the Swedish and Polish immigrants of a century ago were despite geographic proximity and shared heritage. Rubio was able to appeal to Florida's Puerto Ricans in the I-4 corridor (roughly equal to his statewide appeal), but it's a fair question whether that translates to Hispanics in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico (whose roots go back many generations), let alone Virginia or New Jersey.

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