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Latino Vote: Latinos Expected to Vote for Democrats In Spite of Failed Immigration Reform
Hispanic voters will favor Democratic candidates in the Nov. 4 mid-term elections despite President Barack Obama’s inaction on immigration, according to a Latino Decisions poll of 600 registered Hispanic voters across the country.
The survey, commissioned by the pro-immigration reform group America’s Voice, found that 34 percent of people interviewed said they would vote for a Democratic candidate, while another 25 percent said they leaned toward Democrats.
Only 19 percent of people in the poll said they would vote for a Republican candidate, while another 6 percent leans toward a Republican candidate.
Latino Decisions director Matt Barreto said Monday the survey showed that Democrats maintain their two-to-one edge over Republicans among Latino voters, but they have lost plenty of support in terms of numbers.
During the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, Hispanic voters’ main motivation was “to support Democrats,” Barreto said, but two years later most potential voters said they would go to the polls “to support the Latino community.”
This change in priorities, he said, reflects mostly the disappointment among Hispanics at Obama’s decision to postpone until after the elections any executive order on immigration, a calculated White House move that might hurt some Democratic candidates.
For 67 percent of the people surveyed by Latino Decisions, immigration is either “the most important issue” or “one of the most important issues” in casting their votes next month, while 24 percent said “it is not too important” and 10 percent said “it is not important at all.”
Republicans have a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives, but the Democratic majority in the Senate may be at risk in the upcoming elections, with the balance at stake in a few states.
The poll found that Latino voters might tilt the scale in six key States – Colorado, Kansas, Alaska, Georgia, North Carolina and Iowa – where the percentage of Hispanic voters is higher than the numbers that separate Republican and Democratic candidates in the polls.
A similar situation, Latino Decisions said, occurs in the contests for governor in 12 states: Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Kansas, Alaska, Georgia and Wisconsin.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/latino-vote-latinos-expected-to-vote-for-democrats-in-spite-of-failed-immig/31353#When:12:37:42Z
