Will the US Hispanic Vote Go Republican in 2008?

As I watched the election returns for the February 5th California primary, one thing became very clear: the Hispanic vote was the deciding factor in Senator Hillary Clinton’s victory. The Hispanic electorate, prodded by the ethnic baiting of the immigration debate, constituted an astonishing 29% of the votes cast in the primary. Senator Clinton’s popularity with the Hispanic (mostly Mexican American) electorate was unaffected even by the iconic Kennedy family’s endorsement of Barack Obama.

Nevertheless, as the votes rolled in, Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush’s former press secretary, made the bold assertion on CNN that should the general election come down to Senator John McCain and Senator Obama, the Republicans not only had a chance to cut into the Democrats’ share of the Hispanic vote in California, but to win it outright. Such a scenario in California could very possibly win the state’s electoral votes for the Republicans and doom any possibly of an Obama presidency.”*

*From: www.mexidata.info
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

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