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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
How did Oregon's Hispanics vote?
Latino voters cast ballots in record numbers on Election Day with results that surprised some and left politicos realizing that earning this group's support is going to take a lot more than "Se habla español."Link.
Forty-four percent of Latino voters in the United States supported President Bush, according to exit polls, 9 percentage points higher than he received in 2000.
More notably, 50 percent of Latinos who were voting for the first time indicated support for the Republican president.
Although the Latino community in Oregon didn't make a significant showing for Bush (17 percent), Republican Party Chairman Kevin Mannix said the momentum is growing.
Though John Kerry's support in the Hispanic community was disappointing at best, that was not the case in Oregon where George W. Bush garnered only 17% of the community in the state. In Arizona, Nevada and Colorado, Bush's totals were similarly low, so although he did well among New Mexico's and Florida's Hispanics, across the rest of the country he failed to gain much support. Hispanics will surely be a swing constituency in the future, but at least at this juncture, the Democrats still have the upper hand.
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