If Greg Palast is to be believed they're already a couple million votes ahead for the Presidential election anyway.

The Democrats would use this to their advantage if they were interested in winning the Presidency. It doesn't seem like a high priority to them.

En particular en los estados previamente "rojos" de Nevada, Colorado, Nuevo Mexico, y ahora Louisiana.......

Pero no, ahora parece que el partido republicano disminuira, hasta que sea un partido solamente para los blancos y solo del sur y las partes del oeste sin muchos latinos. Con el crecimiento de la poblacion hispano, los democraticos podran ganar en el oeste donde hay mas latinos, asi que en el noreste, incluso Maine Y NH, en el media oeste, y en la costa del pacifico, para crear una mayoria permanente.
Los republicanos son tontos!

And then there's that Cabinet - Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Alberto Gonzales - all very high positions filled by minorities (unlike any previous administration of either party).

OK, that's the last even semi-complimentary thing I will say about Bush ever. Unless he resigns. Or kills himself.

No, you can. You CAN fairly ask a candidate to have the courage and conviction and belief in their own and their party's ideas. You CAN ask a candidate to explain him- or herself to those critical of said candidate.

And if said candidate can't do this, you can FAIRLY ask "if that lazy coward is unwilling to face a critical audience of voters, how can we expect him/her to face the highly critical world that currently despises what the current president has done to the US?"

I don't understand minorities or 'mos that are Republican. I don't understand people who KNOW minorities or 'mos and are Republican.

Well, no, I do...I just don't like it. When I was in D.C. on a class trip one time in the late 90's, a Republican and a Democrat pundit came to speak to our group, which consisted of kids from L.A., Philly, and Detroit. The Detroit kids dismissed the Dem out of hand because he mentioned that he was vegetarian, and started whooping for the Republican because he said he liked guns and red meat.

Dumb fucking people, man.

Na-ah. Minorities, especially African Americans, seem to have a nasty habit of not immediately forgetting when they've been fucked over, unlike the majority of white people. That's why Republicans will never get more than a piddling number of black votes, and I guess they're starting to figure that out. Better to stop trying to court black voters than to change their policies to help those voters.