[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Immigration Threatens GOP Hispanic Outreach by Deal W. Hudson

[Deal W. Hudson]

Immigration Threatens GOP Hispanic Outreach by Deal W. Hudson

The Window on March 31, 2006

Immigration Threatens GOP Hispanic Outreach

Deal W. Hudson

In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush received 44 percent of the Hispanic vote.  Probably nothing about the election shocked the Democrats more except the fact that they lost.

Political strategist Dick Morris credited Hispanic support for Bush as the decisive factor in his election. “The biggest reason for Bush’s victory was that he finally cracked the Democratic stranglehold on the Hispanic vote” (11/5/04 NewsMax).