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• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

In his article "Deciphering the Democrats' Debacle" (May), Ruy Teixeira does not mention a few other significant issues that contributed to the Republican's success in the 2000 and 2002 elections. He does not, for example, include the way minorities were actually discouraged from voting in some areas (most notably, Florida).

JUDY BROWN-MARINO

via email

A Democratic majority is going to take a lot more than a majority of Democratic citizens. Day after day the public is assaulted with continuous right-wing propaganda. Voters cannot make good choices in an environment dominated by a vocal GOP minority.

JOHN MOODY

Studio City, Calif.

I wish Teixeira had included an analysis of the 2002 elections in Texas, where the GOP took all the state-wide races, beating, among others, Tony Sanchez, a Hispanic candidate for governor in a state with a rapidly increasing Hispanic population. The general consensus here is that white Democrats would not vote for a Hispanic candidate. Was this because of Sanchez's personal baggage? I don't know. But African-American senatorial candidate...