Sotomayor Fight Eroding What’s Left Of Latino Support For GOP? - Now in single digits.

Sotomayor Fight Eroding What’s Left Of Latino Support For GOP?

New poll numbers really seem to bear out the fears of some Republicans: The GOP’s quasi-opposition to Sotomayor seems to be hurting the party among Latinos in a big way.

The latest numbers from the nonpartisan Research 2000 for Daily Kos find that only eight percent of Latinos view the party favorably, while an astonishing 86 percent view it unfavorably.

That’s a real shift from what were already pretty bad numbers from before the Sotomayor nominatino, when 11% of Latinos viewed the GOP favorably, and 79% viewed it unfavorably.

One of the big stories today is that Republicans are realizing that there’s no political percentage in fighting the Sotomayor nomination. It’s striking that Latino opinion about the GOP is dropping so fast, even at a moment when GOP opposition to Sotomayor appears to be flagging, as opposed to intensifying.

This continuing drop among Latinos, coming at a time when many party strategists recognize the party’s desperate need to broaden its appeal, only reminds us that not only are there few apparent upsides in opposing Sotomayor, there are potentially serious costs, too.

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Wow. I can still remember them touting Hispanic support for Bush (G.W.).

i would be astonished if their support was not plummeting.

10% approval nationally, and they seem to be doing their best to get there.

mark

Expect to see the President fight for immigration reform in the fall to secure the advantage.

The Republican Party will then be officially fucked for a generation.

The Dems lost the south for a generation when they turned their backs on government sponsored racism. The GOP looks close to losing a generation because they can't give it up.

condi?

out from the get-go but we are talking about the republicons.

That genie's already out of the bottle, geniuses.

the largest growing minority in this country, this can't be good for the republikkkan party.

Excellent news for the rest of us sane people though.

Once she was announced it was so painfully obvious that attacking her would do them more harm than good. But there they went, pounding their heads against the wall and hoping it would feel good any minute now.