They're the prototypical "cradle Catholics." And apart from the percentage of ne'er do wells that you find in any population, they're probably going to be the best wave of immigrants America has seen for some time. Republicans completely blew the opportunity to reach out to them during the Bush administration. I said so then. I said they were being agitated by leftist organizers and that conservatives ought to reach out to them. But no. And, lo, it looks like 'pubs might find them "useful" after all. Is that some kind of joke? McCain only got about 22% of that Catholic, "best wave of immigrants America has seen for some time".
Your second paragraph is especially silly, Bush won 56% of the Protestant Hispanics, and won 33% of the Catholic Hispanics, why did the leftists "agitated" efforts only work on the Catholics?