Notice that I separated these two words. That’s because between 2004 and 2006, there was a thirty point shift to Democrats among Latinos. Why? Well, this might have something to do with it:
I think the Republicans need to work on that whole Latino outreach thing…
mikethemadbiologist
I seem to remember writing something about this back in April.
Karl Rove saw that the immigrant-bashing was going to backfire, but a lot of Republicans looked at Iraq and looked at the economy, and didn’t see any other issues to run on.
So much for “black people should vote Republican because otherwise nobody will listen to them”. That was always supported by the example of Latinos, who were more split as a demographic than blacks, who vote Democratic overwhelmingly. Well, that was always a retarded idea, but this year should be the final nail in that particular coffin. Why vote for a party that actively hates you? Republicans felt no loyalty whatsoever to the Latino vote, and now it has cost them.
It’s also interesting to me that this is a very real and significant demographic shift, unlike the supposed wave of evangelical Democrat-voters who supposedly materialised out of nowhere. The actual up-shift in Democrat votes among evangelicals was less than the national average shift of five percent. Meanwhile, a thirty percent shift is huge by any measure.