Nov 5, 2010
Anti-immigration groups raised fears that illegal immigrants might steal the U.S. elections Tuesday by voting in droves. Those fears never materialized, and most voting experts say they weren't founded on any evidence of widespread voter fraud, especially by immigrants.
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Host Michel Martin talks with Matthew Barreto, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington and a pollster at the polling firm Latino Decisions, about the impact of the Latino vote in the 2010 midterm elections.
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There was plenty of grim news for Latinos in Tuesday's election results: three Latino congressmen were voted out, the odds of an immigration overhaul appeared to diminish and hardliners were re-elected...But 2010 also signifies a milestone of sorts for Latinos, the country's largest minority: their overwhelming support for Democrats...
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Eighty-one percent of Latino voters in Colorado voted for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Split the Latino vote down the middle between Bennet and Republican Ken Buck and Buck wins easily...As it was, Buck barely out-polled gubernatorial candidate and anti-immigration hardliner Tom Tancredo among Hispanics.
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County Manager Barbara M. Donnellan wrote a memo to the county board which said, "ICE stated clearly -- and with finality -- that local activated communities do not have the option of withholding information from the program, although communities can opt not to learn the results of immigration queries."
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Nov 4, 2010
The irony of anti-immigration sentiment, which fears a loss of jobs for Americans if more immigrant workers enter the United States, is that it is fiscally more prudent to legalize, insure, employ, reunite and educate our immigrants than to keep families apart.
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The "ground game" of volunteers knocking on doors and dialing for votes is the last four yards, and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet's unlikely survival Tuesday amid a national Republican onslaught was the work of get-out-the-vote efforts both meticulous and overwhelming.
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Nov 3, 2010
The two Senate races where the actual winner was different from the leader in our polling-based projections were Colorado and Nevada..."There is one overarching reason why the polls were wrong in Nevada...The Latino vote."
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Latino voters overwhelmingly supported California's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and U.S. Senate incumbent Barbara Boxer over their respective Republican rivals Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, according to polls conducted by Latino Decisions.
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Among the silver linings for Democrats -- and society, really -- in the massive victories won by Republicans yesterday is that there is a very clear price to pay for exploiting anti-immigrant sentiment for political purposes.
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