McCain faces an uphill battle to win the Hispanic vote in November

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will start his effort to win the crucial Hispanic vote with his first Spanish-language ads. But given his party’s anti-immigration stand, it will be an uphill battle.

The conventional wisdom is that the Republican will need about 40 percent of the estimated 9 million Hispanic voters to win in November — pretty much the same percentage that President Bush got in 2004.

But though McCain is better liked among Latinos than his former rivals for the Republican nomination — he was a sponsor of a 2006 reform package that included an earned path to citizenship for undocumented workers — Democrats cite several reasons that McCain is unlikely to get a sizable part of the Latino vote.”*

*From: http://www.dailypress.com
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