Latino Decisions Blog
2014 Election Eve Poll: Latino voters nationwide say immigration top voting issue
Key Results Now Available for Huge Latino Voter Poll Nationwide and in 10 States Washington, DC – An election eve poll of nearly 5,000 Latino voters nationwide and in key 2014…
Getting the Latino vote wrong? Which polls are good and which polls are bad
This article originally appeared at Politico.com Is it possible that Colorado’s Cory Gardner is shaping up to be this election cycle’s Sharron Angle? You might recall what happened to Angle in…
Environmental Issues Will Affect Latino Voting Behavior in this Election
A common stereotype about the Latino electorate is that environmental issues are ranked lower to more pressing issues like immigration, jobs, the economy, education and crime. Indeed, when one thinks…
Playing the Environmental Card: A Winning Strategy for Mobilizing Latinos in 2014
Heading into the 2014 midterm election, President Obama faced an opportunity with Latino voters. If he issued an executive order on immigration, Latino voters would be very enthusiastic about turning…
NEW POLL: Latino Voters on Midterm Elections, Immigration, and 2016 Presidential Contenders
Washington, DC – On a press call/webinar today, Matt Barreto, Co-Founder of Latino Decisions, and Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, discussed the results of a new nationwide poll of…
New NCLRAF/LD Poll in North Carolina: Hagan leads Tillis 40-15 Among Latinos
A new statewide poll of North Carolina’s Latino electorate commissioned by the National Council of La Raza Action Fund (NCLR Action Fund) and implemented by Latino Decisions, shows immigration remains…
New NCLRAF/LD Poll in Colorado: Udall leads Gardner 55-14 Among Latinos
Yesterday the The National Council of La Raza Action Fund (NCLRAF) and Latino Decisions released a new poll of Latino voters in Colorado that finds incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Udall holds…
Latino voter enthusiasm in Florida high – Crist leads Scott 53 to 29
The U.S. Census reports that Latino turnout in Florida in 2010 was 70% and today 73% of registered Latinos say they are “almost certain” to vote according to a new poll released…
Seriously flawed Latino polling in Georgia leads to wildly incorrect speculation
This piece was originally posted at HuffPost Pollster, October 6, 2014 Georgia has more than 900,000 Latinos and more than 270,000 Latinos eligible to vote in 2014. For good reason, analysts have…
Paying for an Unkept Promise: LD Column on Noticias.Univision.com
The latest Latino Decisions column by David R. Ayón published on the Univision news website this week examines how Latino voters, leaders, and organizations might respond to President Obama’s decision to…
Did Dems miss an opportunity for Latino mobilization?
On June 30, 2014 president Obama announced that if Congress did not pass comprehensive immigration reform that he would implement an administrative order providing temporary legal status to millions of…
How Latinos will matter in the midterm election
This piece originally appeared at The Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. Heading into the 2014 elections, much of the conventional wisdom suggests that Latino voters are unlikely to…
Blowback: Why Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Ads Hurt the Republican Party
As congressional lawmakers return home for the summer recess and campaign for the upcoming mid-term election, Republicans believe immigration is an issue they can use to mobilize their base. Specifically,…
Ayón analysis on Obama administrative relief on immigration
Latino Decisions now provides a regular column in Spanish to the Univision television network news website Noticias.Univision.com, written by Latino Decisions Senior Strategist, David R. Ayón. The latest column, published…
Latino Voters Strongly Reject House Republican Proposal on Border Crisis
On the last day before summer recess, House Republicans failed to address the humanitarian crisis at the border and the broken immigration system, which triggered it. Instead, the bill they…
Executive Action on Immigration and Democratic House Incumbents 2014 Prospects
In a prior post, I drew on new polling conducted by Latino Decisions on behalf of the Center for American Progress Action Fund examining Latino voters’ attitudes towards executive action…
Latinos still feeling effects of recession
A new poll of Latino registered voters finds that over half of Latino households continue to be worried about unemployment, even as economists declare the recession is long over. A…
Democrats and the Politics of Executive Action on Immigration
Reports that the House Republican leadership will not consider immigration legislation during the present Congress once again raises the prospects that President Obama will take executive action on immigration. Recent…
New Poll: Latino Voter Views on President Obama Using His Executive Authority on Immigration
New polling of Latino voters conducted by Latino Decisions for the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows that Democrats stand to gain from the president using his broad executive…
Latino Voters in Colorado: Electoral Influence and Immigration Politics
Home to one of the fastest growing Latino electorates in the country, Colorado is set to steal the national spotlight in House, Senate and Gubernatorial races this November with immigration…