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An earlier poll by Latino Decisions in six battleground states found that fewer than sixty per cent of respondents were definitely planning to vote in the general election. The firm’s co-founder, Matt Barreto said, “The high intensity of coronavirus in our community made it more difficult to have the election be a top-of-mind issue for us.
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Nationally, the NPR poll finds that 63% of Latinos report they have lost household income either through reduced hours or wages, furloughs or job loss since the start of the pandemic. But Latinos have kept working through the crisis, says David Hayes-Bautista, a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA.
However, even if the HEROES Act passes, it will still not be enough to cover costs incurred by the UC, said Patricia Gandara, a research professor of education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and UCLA LPPI expert. “I imagine … it’s going to take several years to dig out of this,”…
The campaign also expanded its polling of Latinos to states including Pennsylvania and North Carolina, which it said is a first for a Democratic candidate. “The Latino vote is a legitimate part of the discussion in Pennsylvania now,” said Matt Barreto, a pollster for the Biden campaign.
“There’s odd patterns this year,” said Natalie Masuoka, associate professor of political science at UCLA who teaches an undergraduate course on the census. “In dense, majority-white areas, they either chose to relocate from those hotbeds of COVID spread, or we also saw a lot of folks from some wealthy areas get stuck abroad.”
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