Um, not quite.

Remember those big immigration marches back in April? Well, organizers vowed to register 1,000,000 new Latino voters nationwide, using those marches as a launching point for their national campaign. They didn’t quite get there.

Nationally, organizers set a goal of registering 1 million new Latino voters by 2008, but to date have registered 146,000.

As a result, a vast Latino voter turnout that organizers hoped would send a message to political leaders on Nov. 7 probably won’t happen.

With a success rate of 14%, I’d qualify this as a failure, wouldn’t you? The spin on this failure is all over the place. Most are trying to blame the loss of momentum following the marches. Some are even trying to blame the ILLEGAL immigrants who participated in the marches.

The movement weakened, Espinoza said, because many who participated in the marches were undocumented and aren’t eligible to vote.

Wow. With a failure of this magnitude, sure must’ve been a lot of ILLEGALS at those marches.

Isn’t that just classic lefty? Blame your failure on those for whom you advocate. Glad to see nothing’s changed much since I’ve been away.