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In his native state of Texas, which has the nation’s second largest Hispanic electorate (19.6 percent), Mr. Bush ... did poorly, losing the Hispanic vote to Mr. Gore, 42 percent to 54 percent. This was an improvement over Mr. Bush’s 39 percent Hispanic vote in his re-election for governor in 1998, but it was considerably less than what he and his pro-immigration conservative supporters had expected. In Florida, Mr. Bush actually did win the Hispanic vote, though narrowly. There, where the nation’s fourth largest Hispanic community constitutes 11.9 percent of the electorate, Mr. Sailer reported Mr. Bush winning the Hispanic vote 50 percent to 48 percent.
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Kerry himself ... filed a complaint yesterday with the Federal Election Commission saying the group has ties to the Bush campaign. The FEC decision probably won't come for some time. The point of the filing is simple. It sends a message to the public that Bush is linked with the swift boat group behind the ad campaign. Bush has had many opportunities to distance himself from the group and condemn the ads, and he may soon regret not doing so.
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Bush and Quayle captured the vote in forty states to win the 1988 election. At his inauguration Bush made an appeal for a "kinder, gentler nation" and shared his vision of volunteers, like "a thousand points of light," helping to solve problems.
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