While much post-election analysis has highlighted how Latino voters were mobilized by the immigration debate and helped Democrats retain the Senate, new polling from Lake Research Partners focuses on the views of all voters toward immigration policy. The research finds that despite midterm election gains by conservatives and...
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For Democrats, exit polling of voters in the Nov. 2 elections confirmed this positive trend for the party: For the third straight election, Latinos picked Democrats over Republicans by a ratio of about 2-to-1, strengthening the party's hold on this increasingly important voting bloc.
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Conventional wisdom says the Latino vote belongs to Democrats, but both parties have a stake in viewing these voters as individuals worth courting. The midterm elections offered some interesting insights into the voting patterns of this fast-growing demographic group.
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Republican lawmakers flexed their clout and highlighted their agenda on Monday, showcasing bills that would create an Arizona-type immigration law, further restrict abortion, allow guns on campus and require voters to present ID at the polls.
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In 2008, the Bush administration announced an ambitious new program to help federal officials detain and deport illegal immigrants held on criminal charges by using fingerprints collected by local police departments. But two years later, confusion abounds among officials and immigrant advocates alike, about how it works and whether...
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Nov 8, 2010
One reason California didn't follow national trends on Tuesday? Latinos. Jerry Brown won Latinos 73-18 in the governor's race. In Colorado, Sen. Michael Bennet survived his first election by less than 10,000 votes. And the state's growing Latino population (now at 12 percent of all voters) provided the margin.
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Illegal immigrants can only get driver's licenses in three states: New Mexico, Utah and Washington. In all three states, officials and lawmakers have pushed for tighter restrictions on licenses to keep them out of the hands of undocumented immigrants.
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On a cold evening in Las Vegas on October 22nd, this image burned itself into my memory: as I was looking for my car on a street by the park where President Barack Obama was shouting himself hoarse begging Nevadans to turn out to vote, I saw, through the...
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The first casualty of the new GOP House may be the issue treasured by Latino voters. Liberal and conservative advocates of immigration reform looked at the new GOP-controlled, Tea Party-infused House and saw a brick wall.
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Nov 7, 2010
Hispanic voters saved the Democratic Party Tuesday — buoying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, keeping California blue, playing an outsize role in preserving the party's Senate majority...But that support is anything but certain for 2012.
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