There are just two weeks left until Election Day and the Educating Maryland Kids campaign supporting Question 4 and the state DREAM Act is in full gear. We received this update from the campaign, highlighting the upcoming events this week that will rally in favor of the Maryland DREAM Act...
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Cross-Posted at Latino Decisions, Latino Vote Matters, and Daily Kos: In 1998 Harry Pachon and Rudy de la Garza wrote a report for the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute titled “Why Pollsters Missed the Latino Vote – Again!” in which they argued that polls across California failed to accurately account for...
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Cross-Posted at Daily Kos, Latino Decisions, and Latino Vote Matters: The impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll latest results reveal a high level of interest and engagement by Latino voters in the upcoming congressional and presidential elections. More than three-fourths of all respondents said they...
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Today’s New York Times has a front page article titled, “Campaigns See Latino Voters as Deciders in 3 Key States,” discussing the Latino vote in Colorado, Florida and Nevada. From the headline, one might get the impression that the battle for the Latino vote in those three states is actually...
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Educating Maryland Kids is running the campaign to defend the state’s DREAM Act — and urging Marylanders to Vote FOR Question 4 on November 6th. With 19 days til the election, supporters of Question 4 got some good news today from a new Washington Post poll showing strong support: Maryland...
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Last night, Mitt Romney once again showed his true colors on immigration. One particularly noticeable example is Romney’s use of the slur “illegals” during his riff on self-deportation: Now, let me mention one other thing, and that is self-deportation says let people make their own choice. What I was...
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Over the weekend, The New York Time’s polling guru, Nate Silver, asked whether polls are underestimating the effect of the Hispanic vote. The answer appears to be yes. Silver spoke with Matt Barreto of Latino Decisions, who looked at some of the polling that has been conducted this year...
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Editor’s Note: You can tune in to a live-stream broadcast today at noon Eastern to hear about a new poll of Virginia Latinos from Latino Decisions, and how Latinos here view the Presidential and Senate candidates. Information available below. With presidential and down-ballot campaigns in overdrive to appeal to...
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Tune in at Noon Today to Learn about Virginia Latino Voters from Latino Decisions Washington, DC – With presidential and down-ballot campaigns in overdrive to appeal to Latino voters across the country, polling guru Nate Silver of the New York Times’s FiveThirtyEight political blog asks an important question –...
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By Latino Decisions and Latino Vote Matters: ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions released the latest in a series of tracking polls today revealing support for President Obama slipped from 72% last week to 67% this week, suggesting that his debate performance also led some Latino voters to re-evaluate the President....
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