71% Bush Support in 2004?? Another Obama myth

Fidel "Butch" Montoya

A recent national survey stated that McCain is losing support among Latinos because the level of support by Latinos in the survey only showed 33.7% supporting McCain.

The fact is that Latinos have never supported any Republican candidate for president or Bush at a percentage of 71%. However, what is true is that Latinos have increased their level of support in every election since 1996 for the Republican candidate.

Earlier in the campaign, Latino support dropped to 26% for McCain. With Sarah Palin on the ticket, the support is beginning to rise again...with the latest survey showing that Latinos support McCain/Palin by 33.6% and rising.

By election day, most Latinos will realize the anti immigration and brown rhetoric is just as bad or worse in the Democratic Party, and voter support among Latinos will increase matching or busting Bush's level of support in the last election.

Here are the Latino percentages of support analyzed by respected and well known author George Marlin since 1996 for the GOP candidate...

Where the 71% level of Latino support for President Bush in the last election came from is open to serious debate because it is simply not a credible percentage.

Placing this erroneous percentage in a credible survey report does not make it credible, and in fact raises serious questions about the truthfulness and credibility of the latest survey.

If the pollsters of the latest survey continue to insist President Bush enjoyed a 71%level of support during the 2004 election, their research is tainted by false information.

George Marlin, author of The American Catholic Voter, quoted various polling data in the online publication The Catholic Thing to make the following points about Hispanics.

Most of them:
• Oppose abortion
• Attend church
• Believe that couples should marry if they intend to live together
• Say that unwed parents should be legally wed
• Hold that government should promote “personal responsibility” instead of “bureaucratic paternalism.”
• View welfare as a temporary safety net, not a permanent way of life.

“These data explain why the most significant Bush gains in the 2004 presidential election were in the Hispanic communities,” Marlin writes.

He also made the case that the Hispanic vote is trending more Republican.

In 1996, 21% of Hispanics voted for Bob Dole over Bill Clinton

In 2000 34% voted for George W. Bush over Al Gore

In 2004, 41% voted to re-elect the President against John Kerry.

Marlin quotes Dick Morris’ conclusion: “More Hispanics voted Republican for a variety of factors, including Bush’s efforts to cultivate them, his proposals to legalize guest workers, and his conservative position on social values, which was a special importance to religious Catholic Hispanics.”

Leslie Sanchez, president of the Impacto Group, a Republican communications research firm, agreed: “There is no doubt Hispanics share many of the values of the Republican Party.”

And because of those factors, Latinos will come home to the GOP again, in spite of flirting with "the Change Candidate...Obama". Most Latinos will realize socialism does not align well with Latino values and beliefs.

The latest national AP SHOCK poll numbers show Obama leading by one percentage point, well within the margin of error and down by multiple points from the AP poll from just three weeks ago..

AP writes, "the poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord."

One has to ask themselves, why can't Obama make the sale to the
American voter?

I believe that because values and beliefs are far more important than feeling good after listening to a motivating socialist speech. After the speech, the problems are still there, and Latino voters are realizing, feeling good does not create change or fix Jose, the plumper's problems.

Fidel "Butch" Montoya
H. S. Power & Light - Latino Faith Initiative