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โOur polling found that it was going to be tight in these places, and that the Latino vote wasย going to be decisive. If you look at places like Florida, letโs start there, letโs not generalize forย Miami-Dade County. Itโs only one county out of 3,000 counties across America. And the Latinoย vote overall was…
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โI do think there’s been a shift and the question is, why?โ said Gary Segura, senior partner withย Latino Decisions and dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. โOne reason for the shiftย was that Joe Biden was not as well known among Latino households as the Clinton family was.ย But more importantly, Democrats…
“For the first time in 24 years, since 1996 when Clinton (Democrat Bill) won, a Democraticย president wins again in Arizona … this was entirely the work of Latino community organizations,ย and they began to see results in 2018”, when Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema won,ย explained Rodrigo Domรญnguez Villegas, research director of Latino policy initiatives…
And while Latino voter turnout grew this year, the very universe of Latino voters is growing. Thatย growth is fueled by young people in states like California, Arizona and Texas, said Mattย Barreto, professor of political science and Chicano/a Studies at UCLA and co-founder of theย research and polling firm Latino Decisions.ย The 2018 midterm…
โWe need only look at the impact of the historic Latino voter impact in 2018 to get a sense ofย both participation this cycle, which was historic, both through early day and day-of voting. โฆ Weย saw in 2018 that Latinos were decisive in a number of key races in L.A. County and Orangeย County,…
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