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[Amish]

The chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus loses. That's bad news for liberal Democrats.

Hispanics are now America's largest minority group, but Al Sharpton's news clippings alone prove how much more attention is paid to black politics over Hispanic.

That's one reason the defeat of Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in a Democratic primary in Texas hasn't gotten more coverage. Another reason is that Henry Cuellar, the winner by 203 votes in a bitterly contested recount last week, is the kind of Hispanic politician liberal reporters can't always understand: a thoughtful moderate who believes in working across party lines and who actually endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2000.

[So Cal Rocket]

tainted by the discovery of more than 300 uncounted ballots in Zapata County, a Cuellar stronghold on the Mexican border.

Which side?

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[blanknoone]

One of the problems for leftist/democrat hispanic organizers is that hispanics tend to be more dispersed than blacks. There are very few congressional district size areas that are majority hispanic. Without the 'majority-minority' districts hispanics lack a key entryway into national politics.

[livius]

Hispanic conservatives are an important group. (I, of course, wear a Viva Bush button...but that's another story).

Many of them are still "residual Dems" but will either not stay Dems or will vote GOP in the future.

As noted in the article, education is an extremely important issue to Hispanics. If we're a political party with an ed. program that gives vouchers, encourages charter schools, and encourages excellence in English, you're going to win Hispanic conservatives. In fact, you're even going to win the illegal aliens who vote Dem, because this is essentially the reason they have paid thousands of dollars to get smuggled into this country.