Latino action plan could swing 2008 vote

While 2.6 million more Latino votes would not alone have changed George Bush’s 3.5-million popular vote margin over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, it would have decisively changed the Electoral College vote. In five states with large and growing Latino constituencies where Bush narrowly defeated Kerry, Latinos favored Kerry. These states are Florida with 27 electoral votes, Arizona with 10, Colorado with 9, and New Mexico and Nevada with 5 each. In the Electoral College, 270 votes are needed to win. Bush won with only 286 in 2004. Democratic victories in any three of the five would have changed the result.