Hispanics Still Like Bush

That's the word from Donald Lambro's Townhall.com column. Here's what Lambro's basing his opinion off of:
It's a given that Republican support among Hispanic voters overall, 40 percent of whom voted for President Bush in the 2004 elections, has taken a nosedive in the wake of the congressional battle over immigration and the GOP's crackdown on illegal aliens. But what is not widely known or understood is that there's still a lot of support among Hispanic voters for Bush and the Republicans, particularly among those for whom Spanish is the dominant language, especially on some core political issues.
Issues still matter. The biggest reason why President Bush enjoyed a high level of support amongst Hispanics was because they related to him on social issues like religion and abortion. Nothing's happened to change their pro life stance on being religious. That's something that Democrats can't change until they stop the hostility towards people of faith. That isn't likely to change anytime soon.
One of the poll's most unexpected findings is that the Democrats have not made the major advances across the spectrum of the nation's biggest minority group that many believe. In fact, the poll concluded that Democrats still "have a lot of work to do" to explain what they stand for, according to a background memo from NDN's Hispanic Strategy Center.
I suspect that that's a result of two things: Democrats not having an appealing, positive agenda; and they think that all they have to do to win minority voters is show up and say that they're the party of minorities. If you want to win, you've got to tell people what you're for; you've got to mean it and you've got to stick with your beliefs. Democrats don't meet the criteria on any of those things.

The bottom line is that Democrats haven't made major gains because their positions change daily and because the few things that they consistently stand for aren't appealing. That isn't the way to build a majority party.


Posted Monday, August 7, 2006 1:28 AM

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