Even blacks seem to be getting the message - they normally vote about 90% Democratic; 72% Democratic is 18% under the norm.
This, BTW, is exactly why it's going to be almost mathematically impossible for Bush to be beaten in 2004. The RATS needed every last black voter they could "knock and drag" to the polls (often against the voter's will) to just barely eke out that "popular vote win" in 2000.
(And even that was completely due to massive fraud, since the overwhelmingly RAT-biased networks called Florida before the polls closed in the overwhelmingly-GOP Central Time Zone counties, costing Bush at least 10,000 votes, and probably much more than that. Then they called races for Gore almost instantaneously the moment they had even the slightest bit of evidence that Gore might win the given state, while they literally waited over three hours in some cases to award states to Bush even when Bush had an insurmountable, unquestionable lead in that state. Basically, they fought like hell to get the word out that Gore had pretty much wrapped things up by 8 pm EASTERN, which meant the majority of the country still had from 1 to four hours left to vote. But they were told that Gore had won so many states that "barring a miracle" Bush was toast. So lots of GOPers left the lines at the polling place and just went home, or never bothered to drive to the polling place at all. It's been proven that Bush lost, at MINIMUM, 2 million votes this way, and an argument can be made that he may have lost anywhere from that number up to TEN MILLION votes, because every journalist in the country was telling them their vote was meaningless. It also probably cost us several House seats for the same reason, and maybe even one or two Senate seats, though the latter is a harder argument to make.)
Back to my main point: The RATS needed that 90%, plus massive voter fraud, just to get as close as they did. If they lose even 2% or so of the black vote to the GOP, they are DOOMED. The networks will not be able to get away with their pro-rat tricks again in 2004 either, because millions of us will have prepared ahead of time to warn GOP voters not to believe for one second the intentional trickery and outright lies that the media will try to bombard them with on Election Day evening. A ~30% Bush vote by the black electorate, plus the neutralization of the networks' one-night smear campaign, means there's practically no way Bush can lose in 2004 unless he somehow manages to find himself embroiled in a scandal of Watergate proportions, which is highly doubtful since he actually has a personal code of ethics.
Hispanics are very Christian. This explains why Simon, and Bush, do well with them.
-PJ
Excellent point about the greens. But your comment about blacks voting at 90% is a touch overrated. I don't have historical numbers handy (I know someone around here does), but I believe the black vote is historically more like 85% - still enough to support your point on Davis' current 72%. The 2000 election wasn't very representative, especially when factoring in the voting fraud (outrageous percentage of voters).
Simon being Catholic doesn't hurt.
This is key. We have a natural constituency with Hispanics that we have ignored because the activist Hispanics are a bunch of liberals.
The fact is, conservative Republican principles resonate with Hispanic citizens, particularly parents who want their children to learn English, go to college, get a good job, and raise a family. Parents who don't want their kids to be taken behind their backs for abortions or birth control or be taught that homosexuality is normal.
Wait ... sounds that the average white conservative family! Well, well, well ... maybe we have more in common than we think.
Go Simon!