The GOP Walks A Border Tightrope

“Karl Rove must be seeing Pete Wilson in his nightmares.

President Bush’s architect has been laboring to build up the GOP among Hispanic voters, and he’s been succeeding: Bush won more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, double the level attained by Bob Dole eight years earlier. Some of that is attributable to Hispanic voters’ particular affinity for Bush, a former border state governor. But the change has been marked enough to make some smart Democrats fear they’re at risk of losing their hold on a large and fast-growing slice of voters.”

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