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The Latino Slide - Powerline notes this:

A telephone survey of likely Latino voters in California by PRM Consulting finds President Bush enjoying a 65% approval rating. 74% approve of his handling of the war on terror, and 58% are happy with how things are going in California under Governor Schwarzenegger. More problematic news for the Democrats.

Bush has also won the majority of the Hispanic vote in Texas, twice.

I've wondered for years - is there any reason, besides perhaps inertia, that the mainstream of Hispanic society in the US, is still Democrat?

Most of the Latinos I know are socially conservative; Latin-American Catholicism is much less a whiffle faith than the current American church. They also work very, very hard; why would they continue electing a party that piddles on both of these merits?

The only answer I have - maybe, bit by bit, it's changing. This poll might be fragmentary evidence of this.

Posted by Mitch at January 10, 2004 08:17 AM