May 4, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche repeatedly stated during his recent visit to Monterrey, Mexico, that the U.S. must return to an FDR-style Good Neighbor policy with Mexico, such as helping with the completion of the PLHINO great water project in the northwest of Mexico. With millions of Mexicans about to be expelled from the U.S., and with no jobs currently awaiting them at home, it is in the vital interest of the U.S. to help create productive jobs for them with viable projects such as the PLHINO. The PLHINO project is violently resisted by the British Empire's agents, such as the vampire bat-promoting World Wildlife Fund.
Mexican-Americans in the U.S., especially in states such as California and Texas, are a central component of the electorate, and one of the essential constituencies of the Democratic Party, LaRouche also emphasized. Cross-border projects such as the PLHINO and the related NAWAPA plan, speak to their immediate interests, and of their family members on both sides of the border.
A March 2008 study by the Pew Hispanic Center on "The Hispanic Vote in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries" sheds interesting light on these demographic and voting patterns, which LaRouchePAC is now researching in depth. In the state of California's 2004 Democratic primary, Hispanic voters made up 16% of the total vote--about equal to their 14.3% share of the total national population. But in the 2008 Democratic primary, Hispanics were 30% of the total turnout--a dramatic shift due largely to Hillary Clinton's highly successful get-out-the-vote drive. Clinton beat Obama 63% to 35% among Hispanic voters in the California primary, a pattern which held across all Hispanic age, gender and income groups.
Texas was similar. In the 2004 Democratic primary, Hispanics made up 24% of the votes; in 2008, that percentage rose to 32%. And in Texas, Clinton defeated Obama among Hispanics by 66% to 32%.
As for the issues driving the Hispanic vote, 53% of all Hispanic voters in the Super Tuesday primaries said the economy was the #1 issue--even more than the 45% among non-Hispanic voters who said economics was "numero uno."
