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Sanders dominated the state caucuses, easily beating Biden by a wide margin and earning an estimated 70 percent support among Latinos, according to researchers at the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA.
Read More | September 28, 2020
A report, produced by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, released an analysis of unemployment in California at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, showing that up to 22% of the Blacks and 26% of Latinos were simply unemployed in June, compared to 17% of white and Asian workers.
Chad Dunn, a lawyer for the Texas Democratic Party, argued that giving voters in one age group a voting option but denying it to voters in another age group was just as unconstitutional as giving white voters a voting option denied to Black voters.
“While people claim that disasters do not discriminate, there are human decisions that make some populations more vulnerable than others,” said Michael Méndez, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, who co-authored the article.
The increased polling “gives us the ability to look at Latino voters the same way we have been looking at white voters over the years, which is to microtarget them, break them down into different groups — those without a college degree, those who are married — we’re now bringing that level of sophistication to…
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