Jorge Ramos is the single best known TV anchor in Spanish television in the US. To give you an idea of what this means, imagine Tom Brokaw writing this piece in the New York Times.
A suprisingly large segment of Scharzenegger's early support has come from Hispanics who love his macho image. I've repeatly said that having Pete Wilson as deputy campaign manager and his unwillingness to admit that he made a mistake in supporting Prop. 187 would hurt his chances of winning the Hispanic vote. Jorge Ramos discusses (in Spanish) how and why Arnold has lost the Hispanic vote.
But I fear that Schwarzenegger did his political calculations and already made his decision. He knows that Hispanics, even though they are a third of the population of California, only constitute 12%of its electorate. That is why he prefers to woo the 59% of Californians who voted in favor of 187 and let the Hispanics vote for the principal Democratic candidate for the governorship, Cruz Bustamante.
"Arnold is teaching us the classic lesson of what any candidate should to lose the Hispanic vote. Being anti-immigrant in California, sadly, keeps earning votes. But there is nothing worse than when an immigrant forgets his past and turns his back on others like him. And Arnold's back sure is wide."