“in 2004, George W. Bush got 44% of the Latino vote”
Actually, that’s a media talking point that is false. It was debunked on VDARE.COM by Steve Sailer, but unfortunately VDARE is banned here on Free Republic. But go to vdare.com and get on Sailer’s archive and you can find that finding and many other interesting ones.
According to Dick Morris the percent of the latino vote going to Bush was closer to 35%. Which isn’t a great deal better than before and since.