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Election reveals increasingly independent Latino vote.
Byline: Flynn McRoberts and Stephen Franklin
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ For years, political analysts have called the Latino vote a sleeping giant, huge in potential but something less on Election Day. On Tuesday, the giant awoke, and both parties had reason to take note.
The number of Latino voters nationwide surged a million or even more above the 5.9 million who cast ballots four years ago, according to several estimates. They helped send two Latinos to the U.S. Senate for the first time in the country's history.
But those two victors, a Democrat in Colorado and a Republican in Florida, also were evidence of an increasingly independent voting bloc whose support can't be assumed by either party. For instance, while President Bush lost support among Hispanics in Florida, home to reliably Republican Cuban-Americans in the Miami area, he gained the backing of Mexican-American and other Hispanic voters in Arizona.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Election reveals increasingly independent Latino vote.