Bill Press just said that 44% of Latinos voted for republicans last

[Hieronymus]

election, and this time 29% of Latinos voted republican. :woohoo:

[opihimoimoi]

1. Many factors was at play...gambling was one...Pubs wanted to outlaw Poker

Poor bet...gamblers went blue...all in.

[papau]

2. The 44% was a fudge of the 04 exit poll data to make it "fit" the result.

New Mexico results by others, plus Latino organization scientific surveys, were proof that the Latino vote was no more than 35% and likely lower in 06.

It is hard to make use the data that results from a stolen election.

[Renew Deal]

3. That's what happens when you scapegoat and crusade against

a group of people.

[demosincebirth]

4. Take the Cubans out of the equation and those figures drop dramatically

[oasis]

5. They latino community found out what the GOP "base" really thought of them and

came home.

[No Exit]

6. I believe both the Spanish-speaking community & the Arab-Americans are

finally seeing the light about the repukes.

Just my opinion: in my experience, people who have any "Spanish" in their identity tended to be more socially conservative, and so did Americans who had some "Arabic" in their identity. In my opinion, these groups favored, for example, a paternalistic family.

So I think they drifted naturally in the direction of the repukes, who were of course billed as "family-friendly" and "conservative". And of course the Spanish-speakers noticed Shrub, who apparently knows more words in Spanish than he does in English.

We now know that the repukes are neither family-friendly, nor do they conserve anything that is of value. And Shrub's Spanish-speaking must've turned out to be just as garbled as his English-speaking.

I noticed some TV footage of Jim Webb which was played over and over and over: there was a man shown waving a sign saying "Arab-Americans for Webb". While I think the mainstream media meant to hurt Webb/Democrats by showing this over and over, to me, seeing that sign was a sign of hope for both Webb and for democrats: hope that, as conservative as they might be, Arab-Americans can still see that it is the democrats who are friends to them--not the republicans, who are for sale to the highest bidder, who tar all Arabs as "terrorists", and who recommend the killing of as many Arabs as possible.

It's great to see these 2 (IMO) rather socially conservative groups finally realizing that repukes and repukes' nonstop avarice do NOT embody "family values".