Latino Decisions Blog
Identifying a Relationship Between Latino Representation in Congress and Trust in Government
By Ricardo Ramirez, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Shannon Sanchez-Youngmann Although all eyes will be focused squarely on the race for the white house this year, there are several important races…
Projecting Latino Electoral Influence in 2012: What Percent of the Latino Vote Candidates Need to Win Each State
Matt A. Barreto, Ph.D. and Gary M. Segura, Ph.D., Latino Decisions We get asked the question about “Latino influence” from the press weekly—some weeks, daily. Answering the question is easy…
GOP losing the Latina mom vote and much more
This article was originally published at NBC LATINO Less is more for the Republican Party when it comes to women’s reproductive rights. Conservative Republican women may fully support the strategy…
Latino conservatives? GOP hopes misplaced
This article was originally published at USA Today One of the Newt Gingrich campaign’s top 10 reasons for why Latinos should support him for president is that “he shares our…
Conference Call to Focus on Florida as First Major Latino State
Latino Community Tele-Forum: “The Latino Primary 2012” Conference Call to Focus on Florida as First Major Latino State MIAMI – The National Institute for Latino Policy will convene a national…
Latino Voters Go Beyond Immigration
This article originally appeared in the January 30, 2012 issue of The Nation magazine José Díaz-Balart, chief political analyst for Telemundo, had one important task during the September 7, 2011,…
Searching for a National Latino Leader
A recent blog to the Latino Decisions page noted that Susana Martinez and Marco Rubio, both mentioned as possible Vice Presidential candidates, were largely unknown by Latino voters. While somewhat…
Latina Moms in the 2012 Election
by Victoria DeFrancesco Soto Soccer moms were the go to gals in the 1996 Presidential election. Eight years later George W. Bush again looked to the ladies, zeroing in on…
Latinos Rising: Consequences of the 2011 Nevada Redistricting
David F. Damore, University of Nevada, Las Vegas What a difference a decade makes. In 2001, despite constituting 20% of Nevada’s population, Latinos received little to no consideration in the…
Can the Internet be a Door to Increased Latin@ and African American Participation?
By Jessica Lavariega Monforti & Jose Marichal Could the key to increasing civic engagement among Latinos and African Americans be computer classes? A growing body of research is linking Internet…
Republican candidates do not resonate with Latinos
By Pilar Marrero – [email protected] | 2011-10-17 Results From Political Content of October Poll Posted Here LOS ANGELES, CA. – Although Latino voters have expressed some disappointment with President Obama…
Despite Conservative Bias, Republican Poll Still Shows Disastrous Disadvantage for Republicans Among Latinos
On Friday, the GOP campaign consulting firm Ayres, McHenry, and Associates released a new poll sponsored by the Resurgent Republic—a GOP research and public affairs organization—and the Hispanic Leadership Network,…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…