To: ElkGroveDan
President Bush is wildly popular with Latinos... Is he? As I recall, in 2000 Bush actually won the Hispanic vote in Florida (remember the Cubans!), but nationwide the vote went 2 to 1 for Al Gore.
In addition, just subjectively based on a few comments here, Simon is starting to annoy conservatives with his "reaching out" to the middle and possibly compromising principles.
To: Zack Nguyen
Bush did indeed only carry 35% of the hispanic vote in 2000 nationwide, but his job approval ratings with hispanics are great. Bush won Florida's hispanics 49-48. A recent Bendixen & Associates poll showed that Gore and Bush would split the hispanic vote were the elections today. Reasons for this include the war on terrorism, his new Cuba policy, his Spanglish-speaking, his desire for a temporary guest worker program for Mexican illegal immigrants who are seasonal workers on farms and for other unskilled laborers, faith-based initiatives, his support for hispanic nominees to the executive and judicial branches, and his attempts to improve relations with Mexico and Latin America.
To: Zack Nguyen
Yes, he is starting to annoy a few purists, but I don't think there's a single Republican here who doesn't want him to win.
Who are you going to support instead, Gray Davis?
Cough.
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To: ElkGroveDan
While Republicans only managed 23 percent of the Hispanic vote in 1998 and 2000, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan regularly received up to 40 percent.I appreciate the writer's enthusiasm, I think his logic needs a little work here. There is no comparison between the hispanic voting block of 1968-1984 and that of today. It was far, FAR more assimilated twenty years ago.
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06/27/2002 12:08:30 PM PDT by
skeeter
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