Reply #5: The Hispanic vote did not, in fact, go to Bush.

[Old Mouse]

That was an exaggeration, already disproved, put forth by the Bush campaign to help rationalize where its last minute surge of votes originated.

But the Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment in the United States.

For many reasons - birth control, environmental damage, career focus - the birth rate in industrialized nations has been dropping drastically for years. In some countries, such as Japan and Germany, these problems are so serious as to endanger the future viability of their sovereignty. But in the United States this problem has gone unnoticed only because of the growing immigrant Hispanic population has statistically hidden the decline occurring in other segments.

It probably is a combination of Roman Catholic birth control practices combined with a gene pool less contaminated with the United States' growing dioxin pollution problem, but the result is powerful: Hispanics are already the most powerful voting block in Los Angeles, and that trend is continuing across the entire country.

I think this article exposes how Bush is laying the groundwork now to capture what will be one of the most powerful voting blocks in 2008.

Thanks for posting it!