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Report: "March to the Polls 2010" Captures Portrait of Hispanic Voters in Key States

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In the 2006 midterm elections, 5.5 million Latinos voted. In the 2008 general election, 10 million Latinos voted. Now, in 2010, some groups calculate that 6.5 million Latinos will turn out at the polls.

Next week, we’ll know for sure how accurate that number is. What we know now is that a range of unprecedented efforts to ensure Latino voter turnout is underway—since the Latino vote could be decisive in determining the outcome of many key races throughout the country.

The purpose of our series “March to the Polls 2010” is to capture the attitude of Hispanic voters in key states. Two years ago, they voted at record levels, but in the last two years they have been battered along with the rest of the country by an economy in crisis. They have suffered higher unemployment rates than the rest of the country. And the promise of immigration reform that would help their families and friends—a promise that was central in motivating many of them to vote in 2008—has yet to materialize.