From Reuters:
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Lack of action on federal immigration reform prompted a leading Hispanic advocacy group to give the administration of President Barack Obama a grade of “C” on issues important to Hispanics.
Looks like grade inflation to me. Obama had a Congress that could have passed immigration reform — including 60 votes in the Senate — and he declined to do so. It’s better politics for Democrats to keep it as an issue for future elections. End of story.
In that context, recall Obama’s famous Univision interview:
[I]f Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.
So which one is Obama supposed to be — an enemy or a friend? At the moment, his Gallup numbers with Hispanics have slightly ticked back up to 51 percent, from 45 percent at the end of July.
