Did you know that, despite running exceedingly racialized anti-Latino advertisements in Nevada’s Senate race, Sharon Angle got 30% of the Latino vote? Jan Brewer also did well, attracting an above-average 28% share of Arizona’s Hispanic vote just months after signing SB1070 into law. Moreover, Meg Whitman received 21% of the African American vote in her failed run for Governor of California, including 28% of black males!
If these “facts” sound suspicious to you, they should. Nevertheless, they represent several of the formal findings of the National Exit Poll from 2010. [cont.]
Gary Segura, Latino Decisions