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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
one view from the opposition:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/08/MN19612.DTL
541 posted on 08/12/2003 11:52:16 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone
"I don't know much about him, but I'll probably vote for him," said Rafael Cortez of Oakland. "He seems like a good person, and the politics of this thing are really ugly. It would be great to have a Latino governor."

Frightening, and confirms my belief that many voters swim in the shallow end of the voter pool.

Latinos, about a third of the state's population, are on their way to becoming the majority in California, according to the U.S. Census. But very few Latinos vote. About 44 percent are immigrants, including many who never obtained citizenship, and millions of other Latinos are too young to vote.

AAARRGGGHHH!! Nor SHOULD they vote!

But I would rather have Cruz Bustamante than Gray Davis," said Sandoval, an Oakland resident who immigrated from Mexico in 1949. "And that movie star has a nice smile, but I wouldn't trust him further than I could throw him."

Smart man.

551 posted on 08/13/2003 12:09:06 AM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The 12th Republican Commandment: "Thou shalt not alienate thy base")
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