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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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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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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"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...
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Reid not only overcame the lethally-low approval rating that had pundits locally and nationally declaring his pursuit of a fifth term hopeless, but also successfully inoculated himself against the fervent Tea Party movement that had found a champion in Republican challenger Sharron Angle. Hispanic voters proved key to Reid's...
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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.
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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...
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As voters head to the polls today after a year of competitive primary elections and anti-Washington anger there's little doubt Republicans will make significant advances in Congress. The only question left: how significant?
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Curious if Sharron Angle's race-baiting campaign, which has upped the ante on demonizing Latinos and immigrants (see images at right) and has become the focus of major Latino voter mobilization efforts are contributing to the new "Democratic early voter surge" being reported in Nevada.
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Oct 28, 2010
Good stuff from my friends at Cuéntame. Sometimes you've just got to laugh to keep from crying.
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