Bush Support Among Hispanics Slipping, Poll Shows

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) is trailing his Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) by a big margin among potential Hispanic voters, according to a new survey of Latino attitudes toward politics released on Thursday.



Kerry and his vice presidential choice, John Edwards (news - web sites), have the support of 62 percent of the Hispanics polled, while the Bush/Dick Cheney (news - web sites) ticket has 32 percent support, according to a joint survey by The Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation.


Bush, according to exit polls, got about 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2000, a key constituency which could decide the election in swing states like Florida and Arizona, both of which went narrowly to Bush.


The survey polled 788 adults between July 12 and 20, and had a margin of error 3.5 percent.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20040722/pl_nm/campaign_hispanics_poll_dc

[lovedems]

1. I guess the Bush administration is finally learning

you can't win an election with the support of CEO's and the wealthy top 2% of the population! This is what happens when you cater to the "Have and have mores" at the expense of everyone else.

[Fed Up]

2. He is pissing off his Cubans in S. Florida too. (Harsh Cuba travel policy

Chimpie's support is slipping everywhere.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Fatal move by shrubulence

Florida is ours to lose now.

[Snellius]

3. Time to invite another mariachi band to the White House

"mi casa es su casa"

[MallRat]

4. I wonder if the Cuban vote is slipping, too.

Any South Floridian DUers heard anything about this?

[Judi Lynn]

9. Here's a CBS article on South Florida Cuban-Americans.......

Cuban-Americans Caught In Middle

HAVANA, June 30, 2004
(CBS) By CBS News Producer Portia Siegelbaum

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The newly imposed restrictions approved by the Bush administration have split the Cuban-American community along generational lines. Older exiles who left Cuba in the early 1960s generally support the get-tough policy. These exiles no longer have many relatives in Cuba, and their ties to the island are virtually non-existent.
Newer arrivals who came to the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s generally oppose the new restrictions. These exiles tend to maintain very close relationships with both family and friends left behind. Frequent telephone calls and visits have helped sustain those ties.
(snip)

Maria Hernandez, a Miami registered nurse, was one of the hundreds waiting to leave Havana on Tuesday afternoon. She’d flown in on Friday for one last visit to “family”, in her case aunts and cousins. The new regulations will only permit Cuban-Americans to visit immediate family members.

“I’m sorry Mr. President,” she told CBS News, “but you can’t tell me who is my family. I’m a Cuban and all these people are my family.”
Hernandez has been a Bush supporter in the past but now she’s not sure. “I don’t want to break the law, but I have to see my family and friends.”

Hernandez is one of many Cuban-Americans who hint that the newest Bush initiatives on Cuba, intended to garner votes in the November presidential election, may backfire.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/30/world/main626750.shtml

[louis-t]

15. The newly imposed restrictions approved by the Bush administration have sp

such a uniter!

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. I guess Jeb will have to go save Elian again

so they can get Orlando Bosche and his pals to rally the troops.

[gratuitous]

6. ¿Que pasa, Jorge?

Looks like the Latinos no gusto Arbusto very much.

[Beetwasher]

8. Yeesh, How Much More Can It Slip?

It seems he's slipping everywhere, with everyone, and yet somehow he's doing just fine...

[lancdem]

10. He's not doing just fine

That's why the WH leaked the Sandy Berger story.

[Beetwasher]

11. Yeah, I Was Being Facetious!

He's in shitloads of trouble, but somehow, one doesn't really get that impression from the liberal media...

[Az_lefty]

12. liberal media??? now that's funny!

[Beetwasher]

13. I meant "liberal" media

n/t

[senseandsensibility]

14. Hispanics

and African Americans are far too intelligent to buy the * that shrub is peddling. If only everyone was. Sigh.:shrug:

[donco6]

16. He can drum that up quickly,

. . . with a few well-placed anti-abortion ads. Get Hispanics feeling guilty about "denying their faith" and the levers will fall the other way - sadly.