[Amerigomag]

polls have shown that only 7% of Americans of Mexican decent bother to vote in any of the elections

Really.

From the November 4, 2002 Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: ",Latinos represent 28 percent of the adult population, 17 percent of whom are registered voters and 16 percent of them likely voters."

A bit more than 7% wouldn't you say?

Today, Hispanics represent about 38% of the state's population and their participation is increasing at about the same rate as Moore's Law. That suggests that about 30% of adult Hispanics in California may participate in the upcomming election.

That means about 4.5 million Hispanic voters in October.

[A CA Guy]

You think 95% of registered voters will vote?

I thought like you did, but I read an article that supposedly studied who voted and that 7% number came out of the article.

I think I read it here of FR about 2-4 weeks ago.

Might have also been a poster regarding statistics from the census or other source.

Sorry I can find it right off for you. I'll try and find it though.

[A CA Guy]

By the way, I get the 95% number from the report that 16 of the 17% vote!

[Torie]

Hispanics will be about 15% of the vote.