Latino Decisions Blog
The Diminishing Power of Public Sector Unions: Latinos Have a Large Stake in the Debate
By Stella Manrique Rouse, University of Maryland The collective bargaining power of public employee unions has been at the forefront of political debate over the past year. Elections in 2010…
Immigration Policy is Personal for Latinos
The most interesting trend from the June impreMedia/Latino Decisions (LD) poll is the personal relationship that the Latino community has with immigration policies. As reported here earlier, a majority of…
Latinos divided on Obama and immigration
By Pilar Marrero – [email protected] | 2011-06-13 New Poll Results Posted Here LOS ANGELES, CA.- The number of Latino voters who intend to support President Barack Obama increased by 9%…
Latino Decisions and impreMedia to release new poll on Immigration Policy
New: June 9 Survey Results Click Here Latino Decisions and impreMedia will be releasing data from a new survey focused on the Latino electorate’s attitudes and experiences with immigration policy…
Redistricting and the Latino Boom in Nebraska
By Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, University of Nebraska Omaha At the beginning of the year there was much speculation as to how the rapid growth of the U.S. Latino population in the…
The Disproportionate Impact of Photo-ID Laws on the Minority Electorate
By Gabriel R. Sanchez, Stephen A. Nuño, and Matt A. Barreto Following the Crawford v. Marion County Election Board decision of the Supreme Court which upheld the stringent photo-identification policy…
One Year After SB1070: Why Immigration Will Not Go Away
By Sylvia Manzano One year after Arizona SB1070 was signed into law, immigration policy remains foremost on the minds of Latino voters. Results from the April 2011 impreMedia-Latino Decisions poll…
Perceptions of party outreach to Latinos key to 2012 vote
Yesterday, Pilar Marrero of impreMedia reported that Latino voters were “dissatisfied with political parties” and despite majority approval ratings, Latino support for Obama is tepid heading into 2012. Despite a…
Latino Decisions and impreMedia to release new poll on Housing Policy
New Poll Results Posted Here Latino Decisions and impreMedia will be releasing data from a new survey focused on how the national housing crisis has impacted the Latino population on…
Where Latino Votes Will Matter in 2012
With the recent release of the national Census data pundits have been quick to point out the obvious: the Latino population is growing! As if data points from the annual…
Losing Traction? Latino Support for Affordable Care Act Remains High but Shows Some Signs of Faltering
The federal health care reform debates captured the nation’s attention during President Obama’s first year in office. Despite tremendous financial and political obstacles, on March 23, 2010 President Obama and…
Latino influence states even more important in 2012 electoral college map
In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama won the important Latino battleground states of Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Florida on his way to winning 365 total electoral college votes….
Latinos Make their Mark: Demographics, Destiny and Reapportionment
Four weeks ago the US Census Bureau gave the nation a first glimpse at the 2010 data. Over 308 million people live in the United States now; a 10% increase…
Senators who opposed DREAM Act may face Latino roadblocks in 2012
Yesterday the U.S. Senate failed to invoke cloture on the DREAM Act (HR 5281), ending the chance for any legislative accomplishments on the issue of immigration. While much of the…
Latino Decisions tracking poll post-election panel discredits National Exit Poll
Latino Decisions interview 1,870 Latino registered voters nationwide across 13 weeks, beginning August 9 and ending on October 28. In the weeks after the election, we attempted to re-contact those…
Proving the exit polls wrong 2: Jan Brewer did not win 28% of the Latino vote
A few weeks ago we posted very strong evidence that the national exit poll data for Latinos in Nevada were horribly wrong. Today, we visit the state of Arizona, and…
How the National Exit Poll Badly Missed the Latino Vote in 2010
By: Gary Segura & Matt Barreto Latino Decisions estimates differ significantly from the network exit polls and this raises the question of whether we, or they, have a systematic flaw…
Final Latino Decisions Tracking Poll Shows Dems Winning Latino Vote
After 11 weeks of interviewing, our fall tracking poll comes to an end with this, the 10th Wave Report. Note, however, that the Latino Decisions Track will continue in 2011,…
The Immigrant Vote in California
Latino and Asian Americans are an important part of the American electorate, and this is perhaps most so in California, where the two groups account for nearly one third of…
Latino likely voters favor Dems – 2008 surge voters show lower enthusiasm
With one week to go before the 2010 midterm election, the Latino Decisions tracking poll takes a closer look at who constitutes likely voters in 2010. Likely voter models are…