TWICE as many Hispanics in second term Bush cabinet

[underpants]

President Bush (news - web sites)'s second-term Cabinet will look roughly like his first, overwhelmingly male and mostly white, though Hispanics double their representation, to two. (AP Graphic)

[Goldeneye]

1. Is it wrong to wonder

why he is putting in so many minorities?

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. It's a Potempkin village.

It LOOKS good, and masks the ugly reality behind the facade.

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[Goldeneye]

4. I was thinking it was so we wouldn't question them

to prevent being called racists.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. Wrong.

They did not vote 'overwhelmingly' for Bush. Check your facts.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. The hispanic voted did NOT go overwealmingly for Bush

Kerry got more hispanic votes, but not as much as Democrats usually do. Republicans are making inroads in the hispanic community, but they are far from having majority support.

[Old Mouse]

5. The Hispanic vote did not, in fact, go to Bush.

That was an exaggeration, already disproved, put forth by the Bush campaign to help rationalize where its last minute surge of votes originated.

But the Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment in the United States.

For many reasons - birth control, environmental damage, career focus - the birth rate in industrialized nations has been dropping drastically for years. In some countries, such as Japan and Germany, these problems are so serious as to endanger the future viability of their sovereignty. But in the United States this problem has gone unnoticed only because of the growing immigrant Hispanic population has statistically hidden the decline occurring in other segments.

It probably is a combination of Roman Catholic birth control practices combined with a gene pool less contaminated with the United States' growing dioxin pollution problem, but the result is powerful: Hispanics are already the most powerful voting block in Los Angeles, and that trend is continuing across the entire country.

I think this article exposes how Bush is laying the groundwork now to capture what will be one of the most powerful voting blocks in 2008.

Thanks for posting it!

[underpants]

7. Upon further review....Kerry got 58% of Hispanic vote

The polling firms of Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International initially gave Bush 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, and almost all the communications media repeated that statistic.


After closer analysis, however, and based on a larger sample, that number was changed to 40 percent. According to the updated data, Democrat John Kerry garnered 58 percent of the Hispanic vote.


http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=19762

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. Immigration is the driving factor in hispanic population growth

Just look at Miami, where over half of the popuation were born outside of the US.