Key to Trump's victory: math
Article subtitle:
The significance of Pete Wilson/Prop 187 victory in California
Article publisher:
World Net Daily
Article date:
2 June 2016
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
With the California primary fast approaching, the media are rolling out their favorite fairy tale about how Republican Pete Wilson’s support for Proposition 187 in 1994 was a historic, game-changing error for the GOP, driving Hispanics from the party for good!
Both CNN and MSNBC retold this completely bogus narrative this week. NPR rolls it out once every two weeks... liberals won’t stop lying about Prop 187...
In 1994, Gov. Pete Wilson of California was headed for defeat in his re-election bid. He had an abysmal 15 percent approval rating – syphilis had a higher approval rating. He ended up pulling out an amazing come-from-behind victory by tying himself to Proposition 187, a ballot initiative that would deny illegal [alien] immigrants non-emergency government services...
Pete “Prop 187” Wilson won the election with 55 percent of the vote. That included 21 percent of the black vote – nearly three times the 8 percent average for Republicans in House races nationwide the same year...
Wilson’s 1994 victory on the back of Proposition 187 also happens to be the biggest margin for any Republican running statewide in California in the last 30 years, except for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who won his 2006 re-election by 1 point more (after effectively becoming a Democrat).
Proposition 187 was even more popular than Wilson, winning 59 percent to 41 percent. It was supported by a majority of white voters, a majority of black voters, a majority of Asian voters – and a third of Hispanic voters, i.e., more of the Hispanic vote than Mitt Romney got.
Proposition 187 was twice as popular with Hispanic voters in California as George H.W. Bush had been two years earlier...
The reason California can’t elect a Republican statewide isn’t that Hispanics got even madder at Republicans since Proposition 187. It’s that they’re a much larger part of the electorate, thanks to: 1) Reagan’s amnesty, and 2) the ACLU running to a Jimmy Carter-appointed judge to get Proposition 187 overturned...
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CAIRCO Notes
The Defend Colorado Now initiative was formed in 2004 as to support a pro-citizen, pro-legal-immigrant amendment to the Colorado constitution to ensure non-emergency taxpayer-funded public services go only to those lawfully in Colorado. In June, 2006, in a fit of unbridled judicial political activism, the predominantly Democratic Colorado Supreme Court ruled against the Defend Colorado Now (DCN) initiative, thus preventing voters from approving the initiative.