After hitting down California during a presidential primary campaign, democratic candidate Hillary Clinton may have succeeded in winning the confidence of the Latino population, most of them could be possible voters in the scheduled national elections. But from the way it looked, as if the Hispanic community, comprising largely of Mexican-Americans, did take Clinton’s bait only after she mentioned that she was in favor of passing the failed comprehensive immigration bill once she wins as president of the United States.
That was the best strategy that she ever did, knowing fully well that the issue on comprehensive immigration bill has not been expounded at length, except by Arizona Senator John McCain, who is popularly known in the political circle as one of the authors of the said immigration bill. Now, Clinton may have picked up the pieces from where McCain left off, considering that California, especially in that part of Los Angeles where the concentration of the Latinos is most prevalent.
Her California campaign sorties gave her an edge over another competitor Illinois Senator Barack Obama, an African-American, for the democratic nomination. But political pundits junked the idea that the Latinos embraced Clinton’s rhetorics because she’s a white democratic candidate and wife of the former president of the United States, whose popularity may have catapulted her chances of the democratic nomination for the presidential race.
Now, the litmus test to what Hillary Clinton’s commitment that she would push for approval of the stalled comprehensive immigration bill once elected president. A promise is a promise, common among sweet-talking politicians, if only to get what they wanted. Once sitting in the throne of power, this promise could be possibly reduced to nothing but another attempt to woe majority of the legislators who are opposed to said bill. It would be recalled that President George Bush did try his best to push for the approval of said bill without success. How can the Latinos be assured of another promise, if only to spice the sagging appetite of the Latinos to support the candidacy of Clinton for the presidency?
What is going on at this time in the presidential primary campaigns could be viewed as nothing but futile attempts by the candidates to woe voters in whatever way they could to make an edge over the others. And this, they did, by touching or discussing issues that they believed are popular to the voters. Two of these sensitive topics are the passage of the comprehensive immigration bill that is intended to legalize the stay of at least 12 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S. and the approval of the universal healthcare insurance to benefit most of the uninsured residents.
At this point, it is doubly hard to think that a lone presidential candidate could ever muster enough courage to think that a certain issue is expected to pass deliberations without passing through the hole of the needle in both Houses of Congress? Latino and other racial denomination voters have to think about it a thousand times before they can commit their votes to whoever they thought could save them from the present political quagmire.
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