People Can Sometimes Believe Their Own Propaganda

Miami

Some have floated the theory that this is nothing more than planted boob bait written precisely with the hopes that the Republican Party does nominate Marco Rubio, at which time HRC will mop the floor with him.

I don’t think it is boob bait.  I think that it’s nothing more than a matter of people believing their own propaganda.

What’s behind all of this?

ZOMG GREAT HISPANIC VOTER TIDAL WAVE LOL~!!!!!1

Implicit in this missive is the false assumption that the Hispanic vote is that big, that important, that crucial or that relevant to the winner of Presidential elections.  But, since all you heard for months after November 6, 2012 was that Romney lost because Romney only got 27% of Hispanics (ICYMI:  That’s a correlation without causation), the Beltway consensus is starting to solidify mentally around the fiction of the ZOMG GREAT HISPANIC VOTER TIDAL WAVE LOL~!!!!!1.

So, if a Hispanic starts showing decently in Republican Presidential polls, Democrats start worrying because they actually believe their own propaganda, which is also the propaganda of the RINO cheap labor lobby.  They actually think that a Republican nominee named Marco Rubio can seriously eat into the Hispanic vote nationally, and therefore, (supposedly) seriously threaten HRC’s chances to win the whole bag of marbles.  Inconvenient truth:  Hispanic voters pick HRC over Rubio by more than a 2-1 margin in a hypothetical matchup in polling.

There’s also a big phat whopper in today’s NYT article.  It claims that Romney’s 27% was the nadir of Hispanics voting Republican, when in reality that honor goes to Bob Dole in 1996, who got 21%.