Middle
American News By Jerry Woodruff
(Part II
of IV)
The Democrats’ Strategy
Robert
Creamer, an influential Democrat strategist and left-wing “social justice”
activist, has called for just such a strategy. Creamer is the husband of
left-wing Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, and is a long time party
loyalist, consultant, and lobbyist. He is the head of Strategic
Consulting Group, a political consulting firm whose clients include the
left-wing ACORN, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the AFL-CIO,
the United Steelworkers Union of America, the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, and other left-wing outfits. Creamer has also worked for the
far left Open Society Institute funded by the radical multi-billionaire
international financier George Soros. Even though Creamer in 2006 was
convicted and sentenced to prison for bank fraud and tax evasion, he is still
held in high regard by Democrat powerhouses, and after getting out of jail was
invited to attend President Barack Obama’s first official state dinner at the
White House.
He and other Democrat strategists know that Hispanics, the single largest ethnic group of legal and illegal immigrants, historically vote heavily Democrat. In 2008, Hispanics voted 67 percent for Barack Obama, and only 31 percent for John McCain, a ratio of more than 2 to 1. Nationwide, all Hispanic subgroups voted Democrat by heavy margins. The Pew Research Center reported that the vote of young Hispanics was a lopsided 76 percent for Obama. (Although Republicans do well among middle-class Cuban-American Hispanic voters, their share of the Hispanic vote is rapidly declining as the poorer Mexican Hispanic population increases.)
Democrat strategists also know full well that while Democrats do extremely well among Hispanic and black voters, the party doesn’t perform very well nationally among white voters, compared to Republicans. Since 1972, no Democrat presidential candidate has been able to win a majority of the white vote. The GOP since 1972 has won majorities of white voters in all but two presidential elections. (The GOP didn’t win a majority of white votes in 1992 and 1996 because of the third party presidential candidacy of Ross Perot who siphoned off 20 percent and 9 percent of the white vote in those elections.) Democrats never won more than 43 percent, except for Jimmy Carter’s 47 percent in 1976.
In his book, “Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win,” Creamer urges a strategy that will dilute white voting strength. He says the Democrats who control Congress should grant amnesty to illegal aliens because it will enhance the political clout of left-wingers by increasing their voter base. He writes, “the immigration battle is ... important because it will have an enormous impact on the battle for power between the progressive and conservative forces in American society. As of 2007, there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. If they are placed on an earned pathway to citizenship through immigration reform, they will be eligible for citizenship and voting rights by 2012 and 2016.” He notes that their numbers will be added to nearly 30 million other immigrants who are already legal residents who “could apply today for citizenship, or are citizens not yet registered to vote, or immigrant voters who never go to the polls, or immigrants who will turn 18 years old this year and could register to vote.”
He argues that if Democrats work for issues such as amnesty that are important to immigrants that “will define immigrants’ loyalties for a generation. If we are successful, a gigantic block [sic] of progressive voters will enter the electorate over the next 15 years — a block [sic] that could be decisive in the battle for the future...”
He and other Democrat strategists know that Hispanics, the single largest ethnic group of legal and illegal immigrants, historically vote heavily Democrat. In 2008, Hispanics voted 67 percent for Barack Obama, and only 31 percent for John McCain, a ratio of more than 2 to 1. Nationwide, all Hispanic subgroups voted Democrat by heavy margins. The Pew Research Center reported that the vote of young Hispanics was a lopsided 76 percent for Obama. (Although Republicans do well among middle-class Cuban-American Hispanic voters, their share of the Hispanic vote is rapidly declining as the poorer Mexican Hispanic population increases.)
Democrat strategists also know full well that while Democrats do extremely well among Hispanic and black voters, the party doesn’t perform very well nationally among white voters, compared to Republicans. Since 1972, no Democrat presidential candidate has been able to win a majority of the white vote. The GOP since 1972 has won majorities of white voters in all but two presidential elections. (The GOP didn’t win a majority of white votes in 1992 and 1996 because of the third party presidential candidacy of Ross Perot who siphoned off 20 percent and 9 percent of the white vote in those elections.) Democrats never won more than 43 percent, except for Jimmy Carter’s 47 percent in 1976.
In his book, “Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win,” Creamer urges a strategy that will dilute white voting strength. He says the Democrats who control Congress should grant amnesty to illegal aliens because it will enhance the political clout of left-wingers by increasing their voter base. He writes, “the immigration battle is ... important because it will have an enormous impact on the battle for power between the progressive and conservative forces in American society. As of 2007, there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. If they are placed on an earned pathway to citizenship through immigration reform, they will be eligible for citizenship and voting rights by 2012 and 2016.” He notes that their numbers will be added to nearly 30 million other immigrants who are already legal residents who “could apply today for citizenship, or are citizens not yet registered to vote, or immigrant voters who never go to the polls, or immigrants who will turn 18 years old this year and could register to vote.”
He argues that if Democrats work for issues such as amnesty that are important to immigrants that “will define immigrants’ loyalties for a generation. If we are successful, a gigantic block [sic] of progressive voters will enter the electorate over the next 15 years — a block [sic] that could be decisive in the battle for the future...”
High Praise for Strategy
Creamer’s
book received high praise and endorsements from many influential Democrat
office holders and operatives, including David Axelrod, Obama’s chief campaign
strategist, now a senior White House advisor; and John Podesta, former chief of
staff to President Bill Clinton, now president of the left-wing think tank,
Center for American Progress. Both are key figures in national Democrat
electoral strategy and planning. Axelrod called the book a “blueprint”
for progressives. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, said that if every
left-winger reads it, “we could change our country. This book will help
bring on the New Progressive Era.”
Labor Leader
Endorses the Plan
Endorses the Plan
Another
leader in the left’s grand strategy to transform the U.S. is Eliseo Medina, the
radical executive vice president of the powerful 2.2 million-member Service
Employees International Union (SEIU). Medina was born in Zacatecas,
Mexico, and was a farmworker and labor organizer for the United Farm Workers
union. He is also honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of
America. In a speech to a strategy meeting of the left-wing group,
America’s Future Now!, he explained how amnesty for illegal aliens will help
the left-wing cause.
“We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to
citizenship and eventually voters,” he said. He noted that in November
2008, Hispanics “voted overwhelmingly for progressive candidates. Barack
Obama got two out of every three voters that showed up. Can you imagine
if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three? Can you imagine 8 million
new voters who care about our issues and will be voting? We will be creating a
governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle.”
Left-wing strategists know that if they can dilute the strength of the white
vote by inundating the country with non-white, left-leaning poor voters,
Republicans could be locked out of the White House — perhaps permanently.
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