Miami Herald: Nationally, Hispanics favor Kerry by wide margin

[ryban]

A clear majority of the nation's Hispanics will support John Kerry for president, a new poll conducted for The Herald shows -- providing what could be an important boost in his quest for the White House.

With a million more Hispanic voters across the country this year than in 2004, the high support for Kerry means Bush and the Republicans don't appear to be making the inroads into the Hispanic vote they hoped for after the 2000 election.

The poll, conducted for The Herald by Zogby International last week, shows that about 61 percent of Hispanic voters nationwide support Kerry, while about 33 percent support Bush. The poll of 751 Hispanic likely voters has a margin of error of 3.7 percent.

''What this means is that Kerry has done what Gore did,'' pollster John Zogby said. ``And secondly, it's now over 60 percent of a larger group of Hispanics.''

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10059492.htm

[rpannier]

1. It's posts like this that me me feel good

n/t

[featherman]

2. I believe Bush team expected to break through the 35% ceiling

this year. Trouble in many states if they did not...awwww...too bad

[Arugula Latte]

3. What's wrong with Hispanics?

Don't they like a tanked economy, record defecits, war for corporate gain, corporate cronyism, fascism, pollution, unfunded social programs, extremist judicial appointees, endless lies, unfounded secrecy, and alienation from the rest of the planet?

Damn them! How unreasonable can they be? Maybe if our president just practices his special love a little more in Spanish ...

[Blaq Dem]

4. I hope the other 30% wakes up...

and realize that Republicans only want Latinos here as slave workers. The Bush Cult want them to take low-waged menial jobs no one wants to work. Talking about low expectations. This is condescending.

They did the same with black people until we started demanding eqaul pay. I don't know if the rest of you know that it was Nixon who set up the very racial quotas that conservatives til' this day whine about. He did so to break labor unions.

Conservatives just want free labor without respect for workers.

[JCMach1]

5. This means Bush is toast... If Bush is under 40% of hispanic votes

he is going down...

[Norbert]

6. Hopefully this statement says it all.

"Throughout the election season, analysts have said Kerry must keep Bush's support among Hispanic Americans to less than 35 percent if he is to have a shot at defeating the president. The poll shows he seems to be doing that."

[libbygurl]

7. Recall how Bush I referred to his Hispanic grand nephews as

"the little brown ones"?

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Anyone who says this race is a dead heat

is a liar.

[cubsfan forever]

9. True GOTV n/t

Professor 2

[bemildred]

10. So much for the idea that a half-wit cracker like Rove

knows how to "reach out" to minorities.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Unwilling to report the story without a spin, the right-wing Miami Herald

ended it this way:

Zogby explained that many Hispanics live in the western half of the country, which tends to feel less affected by the events of Sept. 11.

Lori Baros of Santa Fe, N.M., said her husband is a retired soldier, and she wants U.S. troops home from Iraq.

''President Bush took our troops out there with no plan to get them out,'' Baros said. ``John Kerry would make more of an effort to bring our troops home.''

Carmen Soto, a 60-year-old Puerto Rican and registered Democrat who lives in Brooklyn, said she plans to vote for Bush because she is satisfied with the job he has done.

''He's been a good president, and I think he's got a better head on his shoulder than Kerry does,'' she said. ``He hasn't taken anything away from me, and he hasn't given me anything.''

It must be killing them to admit Kerry has so much support. Miami is home to a large vocal group of entrenched radical right-wing Cuban extremists. The Miami Herald prints its own Spanish version of the news to serve this group. That version of the Herald tends to rewrite the news for additional spin, which is debunked weekly at http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=main_body&otherweek=1099198800