Posted on: May 5th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Politics ] [ Election 2008 ] [ Commentary ]
Tags: activist, hispanic voters, protest, voter registration
When activists across the country took to the streets May 1st for the third annual mass protests against restrictive government policies on immigration, they chanted a familiar slogan: “Today we march, tomorrow we vote!”
But since 2006, when explosive rallies against restrictive House-sponsored crackdowns on immigration brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the heart of major American cities, organizers have been bedeviled in efforts to make good on the “tomorrow we vote” pledge — and not simply because the nation’s contingent of roughly 12 million undocumented workers is unable to vote. Voter registration and turnout among Hispanics have always been tepid, and the high concentration of Hispanic residents in states generally not in play during presidential cycles has served to further blunt the impact of the Hispanic vote.
What’s more, those Hispanic residents who do vote regularly tend to resist ready mobilization into voting blocs. “*
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