Sotomayor Hearings, Day 3

Starts here...

... And gets worse from there for the GOP. Doesn't help that GOP issues groups are basically calling Sotomayor a terrorist.

In the spot, Sotomayor is compared to conservative bogeyman Bill Ayers, and is alleged to have "led a group supporting violent, Puerto Rican terrorists." Sotomayor was a Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund board member, and from there, I suppose, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to leading a support group for terrorists. Early last month, Levey said he "underestimated the degree to which a few conservatives would say a few extreme things, and that would be characterized as what all conservatives think."

Keep it up. I'm sure the Democrats will enjoy those extra couple million Latino votes. After all, Republicans like Pat Buchanan already see Latinos as the enemy anyway, so why not unload on them?

In 2008, Hispanics, according to the latest figures, were 7.4 percent of the total vote. White folks were 74 percent, 10 times as large. Adding just 1 percent to the white vote is thus the same as adding 10 percent to the candidate’s Hispanic vote.

If John McCain, instead of getting 55 percent of the white vote, got the 58 percent George W. Bush got in 2004, that would have had the same impact as lifting his share of the Hispanic vote from 32 percent to 62 percent.

After all, it's not like the GOP needs to worry about the Latino vote if they are busy trying to assume all Latinos have to prove their citizenship first before voting. That way, they can just classify all of them as "provisional ballots".