Here's another example of Republicans showing their true face, and scaring away voters. Republicans are falling behind in polls of Spanish-speaking Americans.

This is a group of people that were evenly divided between Republican and Dem before, now they're pretty strongly on our side. And we didn't even have to do anything. The Republicans are their own worst enemy.

Bush had boosted the Republican share of the overall Hispanic vote to 40 percent in 2004, with almost all his gains coming among the Spanish-speaking voters. When the Spanish speakers were asked in this survey how they would now vote, John Kerry led Bush, 59 percent to 23 percent -- far better than the 52 percent to 48 percent showing Kerry achieved among Spanish speakers in 2004.

Bush, who had regularly received approval scores of 60 percent or more, now was trailing Kerry 38 percent to 58 percent on favorability ratings.

The poll takers attributed the falloff to opposition to the Iraq war and a higher profile for immigration issues, on which the Republican Party has appeared to be sharply divided. Bush's efforts for comprehensive reform, backed by many Hispanics, have been blocked so far by House Republicans.

With races so evenly divided, it's nice for the Republicans to send us more voters like that.