Latino vote may be wild card in election

[question everything]

Latino vote may be wild card in election

ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 16, 2006

WASHINGTON – Before California's Republican governor tried to get tough on illegal immigrants in the 1990s, the state had supported GOP candidates in all but two presidential elections since World War II.

California has been a solid blue state ever since the attempted crackdown, in part because of a backlash by the growing number of Latino voters.

Democrats hope to replicate that success nationally by using the current immigration debate to brand Republicans as anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic. But Latinos are showing signs they are dissatisfied with both political parties.

(snip)


Find this article at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060716/news_1n16hispanic.html

[Sam Odom]

1. WILD is right

We lose if we are seen to overtly support (seem too easy on) ILLEGAL immigration

[rwheeler31]

2. No one with a brain is happy with this ,

get a grip.

[johncoby2]

3. If Latinos vote Republican

They deserve everything they dont get.

[Sam Odom]

4. * got 40% in '04 n/t

n/t

[Awsi Dooger]

5. White women and Hispanic males

Those were the two blocks who moved slightly toward the GOP due to 9/11 and national security concerns. Our fortunes depend on whether they come back.