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Word on the street is that Hispanic-Americans are upset. They feel that the Dimwits have been taking them for granted. The same beef that blacks have. What people who don't live here realize that there is a large contingent of Americans of Hispanic descent who are very conservative Catholics. Santa Ana is in Sanchez's district. Too bad the GOP doesn't have a stronger candidate because I think she could be taken out very easily. The only Dimwit in Congress from Orange County.

I'm hispanic and we are predominantly catholics and conservative in our lifestyle, which I is why I do not understand why so many hispanics are dems. I do have hispanic friends who are republicans, they study the issues, I don't think many take the time to really study the issues, I know someone in my family who doesn't.

As for bilingual education, I believe it should be the exception and not the rule, most kids will pick up a language fairly quickly if they are put in that environment. I should know, I grew up in a country (it used to be a british colony) where most of us are bilingual, Spanish spoken at home (for those who are hispanic), and the entire school curriculum was taught in English. There was none of this bilingual education stuff. Of course, one advantage we had was that the teachers were usually biglingual too, but they made sure we were taught in English.