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Originally posted by Spanky
In his last election for Governor of Texas, Bush pulled in fifty percent of the Hispanic vote. This made everyone think he was going to suck in a lot of hispanics when he ran for President, although he did better than most Republicans in 2000 but by 2004 the numbers had gone back down. Catholic candidates really help in California and Florida but nationwide I think a Catholics gains among the hispanics would be offset by the backlash from the fundamentlists. I don't really know this but it is a guess.
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In the first month after the election analyses of the vote were showing that Bush got in the low 40% range of hispanic voters, up from the approx 35% he got in '00. I know there was some controversy (i.e. soreloserman style whining) about that 40plus% number.
Do you have more definitive analyses showing he got less than 35%. Cite please?
Further to your posit. McCain and Jeb. McCain's sort of catholic isn't he and Jed appeals to the hispanic population and the fundamentalists (if they forget about the murder of Terri Schiavo (RIP)). That is the winning ticket.
