Why did Bush lose the Hispanic vote in both 2000 and 2004? He was the ideal candidate to win the Hispanic vote for the GOP from the WSJ perspective. He spoke Spanish. He has Latino family members. He’s courted the Hispanic vote his entire career. He supports all of their issues and supports amnesty. Yet, Hispanics preferred the patrician New Englander John Kerry.
“Why did Bush lose the Hispanic vote in both 2000 and 2004? He was the ideal candidate to win the Hispanic vote for the GOP from the WSJ perspective. He spoke Spanish. He has Latino family members. He’s courted the Hispanic vote his entire career. He supports all of their issues and supports amnesty. Yet, Hispanics preferred the patrician New Englander John Kerry.”
He got 40% of it in 2004, which was a record for the GOP. It was probably in 20% to 30% range in the 80’s and 90’s If we would have recieved 25% of the Black vote, we’d be hooting and hollering that we made in-roads in that community. Correct?????