Showing posts with label Hispanic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hispanic. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2009

Not Much Fear Of Hispanic Backlash On Sotomayor

According to the '08 exit polls, Hispanics made up 9% of the nat'l electorate. In states represented by GOPers whose '08 electorate was more than 9% Hispanic -- AZ (16%), FL (14%), NV (15%) and TX (20%) -- only one out of six sens. (the retiring [Mel] Martínez) voted for Sotomayor. Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), Senate Min. Whip Jon Kyl, NRSC Chair John Cornyn, Hutchison and McCain all voted against.

Source: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/08/parsing_the_gop.php