[BlackElk]

40% of the US Catholic Church is Hispanic. The overwhelming majority of the Hispanic Catholics are Mexican. Some of them are "legal." Some are not. The GOP, except for Dubya and a few others, did everything it could to alienate the Mexican vote that had given Dubya 45% in 2004, despite being poorer than the average American. They tend to be socially and militarily conservative and they are here whether anyone likes it or not and most aren't going back. If they go back to Mexico it will more likely be due to the collapse of the American economy under Obama than to the loudmouthed opposition to their presence.

The Demonrats do a much better job at politics than do the Republicans generally. Elitist Republicans miss their good old days when the GOP was the Planned Barrenhood Party of Main Street banking skinflints and all Republicans were rather homogeneous in terms of nationality and socio-economic background. They apparently think they can bring the abortionist crowd back home along with the lavender "marriage" crowd and feminazis generally and since everyone down at the polo club agrees with their views, it is just hard to understand why they keep getting clobbered by commoners at the polls.

If we manage to lose this nation to permanent tyranny, permanent holocaust, socialism cubed and entrenched anti-Americanism in high places, it will not be the work of socially conservative Catholic ethnics. Also. ever bear in mind that being baptised Catholic does not make one a Catholic for life. The Faith must be lived. Many of the "Catholic" politicians and mere voters with whom you may be familiar are no more Catholic than Margaret Sanger who was baptised Catholic. If they are not weekly Mass goers and observant in other ways, including refusing support to abortion, they are not Catholic any more no matter what they may imagine. The Church defines "Catholic" not Gallup.

[ansel12]

40% of the US Catholic Church is Hispanic. The overwhelming majority of the Hispanic Catholics are Mexican. Some of them are "legal." Some are not. The GOP, except for Dubya and a few others, did everything it could to alienate the Mexican vote that had given Dubya 45% in 2004, despite being poorer than the average American. They tend to be socially and militarily conservative and they are here whether anyone likes it or not and most aren't going back.

About 32% of Hispanic voters are Protestant, they voted 56% for Bush in 2004, Catholic Hispanics gave Bush 33% of their vote in 2004, exactly the same as they did in 2000.

In the 2008 election republicans only got 22% of the Hispanic Catholic vote but they still received 48% of the Protestant Hispanic vote.