With Election Day a little more than a week away and early voting in full swing in a number of states, there are encouraging signs Latino voters are mobilized and set on making their voices heard this November. According to a must-read piece from Fusion, “The Latino ‘sleeping giant’ is...
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Last week, we cautioned about the effects of faulty polling of Latinos in battleground states on pre-election predictions and post-election analyses. In a new piece for Univision, David Adams outlines pollsters’ common mistakes when interviewing Latino voters, including small sample sizes and targeting the ““wrong Latinos”…By not offering interviews in Spanish and...
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“Our community is ready to send an unmistakable message to Trump and the Republicans who enabled him” In a new piece for Univision, America’s Voice’s Gabe Ortíz lays out the truth: “The 27 million Latinos eligible to vote in this year’s election have the power to become the wall between...
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As Donald Trump is making unfounded claims that the Presidential election is “rigged” — Politifact called that one “pants on fire” — he is also encouraging his supporters to harass voters. In particular, voters of color. “Go to your place and vote,” he has said. “And then go pick...
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A cautionary tale from 2010 for pollsters and pundits as we near Election Day 2016. As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) awoke on Election Day 2010, he was considered “a goner,” so said Tom Kludt of Talking Points Memo. As Kludt noted, “In the dying embers of the 2010 midterms,...
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“Papi, can we stay?” Four words sum up what’s at stake for millions in a new ad that encourages Americans to vote in this year’s Presidential election. The ad from filmmaker Joss Whedon never explicitly says that any of the ad’s characters are immigrants — or mentions Donald Trump...
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Early voting for November’s election is already underway in a number of states, with encouraging signs that Latino, immigrant and AAPI voters are energizing and coming out to vote — some for the very first time. According to one Democratic pollster in Colorado, the early voter numbers “are staggering....
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A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Donald Trump improving his standing among Nevada Latino voters by 15 points? Yeah right. We’ve been down this road before. In 2010, most pollsters expected Harry Reid to lose by 4 points. Except that he won by 5 points. Most pollsters didn’t...
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With less than two weeks until Election Day and with early voting in full swing in a number of key states, there are continued signs of Latino voter energy and mobilization and indications that the hardline immigration stance of Donald Trump and the GOP is a major motivating factor...
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“He’s from the party of Trump” An increasing number of Floridians are beginning to question their support of Senator Marco Rubio ahead of tomorrow’s second senatorial debate at Broward College. Nowhere is the shifting tide more on display than in Orlando where Floridian Latinos booed Rubio during the Puerto Rican Calle Orange...
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