Sotomayor Graphics: Did Hispanic Population Impact Confirmation Votes?

While most of the rest of the country is starting back to school in the next few weeks, I just finished teaching summer school, so I hope this can help you sooner than it can me (since I don't start until the second week of Sept!). Here is a graphic (party seen above) that shows the margin of victory for the Republican senators and the Obama vote in their state. Here is another graphic that shows the % Hispanic voters in the states of the senators against Sotomayor.