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. Continue »
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. Continue »
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. Continue »
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." Continue »
"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. As Elise Foley notes, Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, California gubernatorial candidate Meg... Continue »
A few pieces of good news for supporters of a more inclusive immigration policy: Harry Reid beat out Sharron Angle (R), who ran a campaign that relied heavily on anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, and immigration hawk Tom Tancredo lost the race for Colorado governor. Continue »
As the Western returns come in tonight, look out for the possibility of a Latino surprise. Matt Barreto, who does the LatinoDecisions tracking poll, told me that Latino turnout is running higher than expected and going even more to the Democrats than it did in 2008, when it was... Continue »
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... Continue »
America's Voice, Campaign for Community Change, and Mi Familia Vota Civic Participation Campaign are responding to Republican obstructionism of immigration reform in Congress, enactment of the anti-Latino "papers, please" law in Arizona, and ugly anti-immigrant campaigning by GOP candidates across the nation, with a saturation-level ad buy on Spanish... Continue »
Pro-immigration groups have launched a Spanish-language ad blitz to urge Hispanic voters to defeat Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle. Continue »