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09/29/2007: "Mainstream media fascinated by Hispanic voting power"

The Hispanic community is the fastest-growing minority group in the United States, but its percentage of the electorate is lower than its numbers as a whole because of lower citizenship rates, less voter participation and a youthful demographic. Of the nation's more than 44 million people of Hispanic origin, about a third are too young to vote.

But all that's changing.

Before the midterm elections in 2006, the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based think-tank, estimated more than 17 million Hispanics would be eligible to vote in that election. The number represented a 7 percent increase from 2004.

[ We want to replace people who have allegiance to a way of doing things with people who only want to get ahead, so we can hoodwink them and profit from them, then cash in and flee to South America. ]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/28/hispanic.vote/index.html