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11-02-2004, 02:17 PM
The Myth of the Latino Vote
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
By Nick Schulz
On this Election Day, the Latino vote may turn out to be the dog that didn’t bark.
Latino voters are thought to be among the most important swing groups in American politics. They are increasingly affluent, and last year a wave of stories appeared about how Latinos now outnumber African-Americans as the largest ethnic minority in the United States. Both major parties continue to make overtures to Hispanic Americans (search); both candidates spent the final Saturday before the election on the Spanish-language television show Sabado Gigante (search).
Both George W. Bush and John Kerry feature Spanish-language campaign sites prominently and run TV ads in Spanish.
But is it possible this critical swing vote is something of a mirage? According to some provocative new research on the most recent Census figures by William Frey, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, the answer is yes. Frey claims that “the Latino swing vote is more apparent than real.”
Read Here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137304,00.htm l)
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
By Nick Schulz
On this Election Day, the Latino vote may turn out to be the dog that didn’t bark.
Latino voters are thought to be among the most important swing groups in American politics. They are increasingly affluent, and last year a wave of stories appeared about how Latinos now outnumber African-Americans as the largest ethnic minority in the United States. Both major parties continue to make overtures to Hispanic Americans (search); both candidates spent the final Saturday before the election on the Spanish-language television show Sabado Gigante (search).
Both George W. Bush and John Kerry feature Spanish-language campaign sites prominently and run TV ads in Spanish.
But is it possible this critical swing vote is something of a mirage? According to some provocative new research on the most recent Census figures by William Frey, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, the answer is yes. Frey claims that “the Latino swing vote is more apparent than real.”
Read Here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137304,00.htm l)